NAEB Newsletter (Mar 1940)

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NAEB NEWS LETTER*•,.MARCH 15, 1940,..Pag© 3 "I discussed with Mr. MacGregor your question of special rates for broadcasting his transcriptions over educational stations. You will note that broadcasting rights are not given with the prices quoted in the catalogue. The minimum rates for a single broadcast over a commercial station per 30-minute program is $2.17* and this rate applies only to the lowest power poor stations. The average rate is nearly $5.00 per transcription * "Mr, MacGregor said that he is Trilling to permit educational stations to broadcast any transcriptions they purchase at the regular school rates. In other words, he is willing to waive the broadcasting restrictions. This means you can add the transcriptions to your library and use them often as you wish. You would not be authorized to permit other educational stations to broadcast the transcriptions in your library. "If you prefer to rent the transcriptions for a single broadcast instead of buying them, you may do so at the flat rate of $1.00 per transcription (50# per 15-minute program), providing you order a minimum 24 transcriptions at a time to be delivered aT the rate of two or more transcriptions per week. Of course, transportation both ways would be extra.** REMEMBER NAEB MEETING AT COLUMBUS In connection with the Eleventh Institute for Education by Radio at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, April 29th to May 1st, NAEB will hold a special closed meeting on the first evening of the conference. Chairman Fly will address the Institute at the annual dinner meeting Tuesday, April 30. He will be introduced by Judith Waller, Western Division educational director of the National Broadcasting Company. Lyman Bryson, professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, will conduct a breakfast table discussion on the morning of the opening day, April 29, employing the same technique used on his "People’s Platform" heard on CBS Saturday night. Subject of the discussion will be, "Are We Victims of Propaganda?" Following the conversation, Professor Bryson will lead a discussion from the floor. Similar discussions from the floor will follow all general sessions of the Institute. For the first time, announcement of awards for the Fourth American Exhibition of Recordings of Educational Radio Programs will be made on the opening day* The announcement will come at the close of the morning session at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel. An innovation of this year’s Institute are the clinics on music appreciation and science broadcasts. These will be held on Monday and Tuesday afternoons, in conjunction with the work-study groups. Alton O’Steen, research associate of the Evaluation of School Broadcasts at Ohio State University, will preside as chairman of the music appreciation clinic. Chairman of the clinic on science broadcasts will be Loring Andrews, chairman of the program committee of the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts*