NAEB Newsletter (December 15, 1940)

Record Details:

Title:
NAEB Newsletter
Date:
December 15, 1940
Publisher:
Wisconsin Historical Society
Volume:
NAEB Newsletter (December 15, 1940)
Leaf #:
0000
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
FCC
Sponsor:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Coordinator:
Maryland Institute for Technlogy in the Humanities
Description:
The official newsletter of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) -- the predecessor to NPR, PBS, the CPB. Led primarily by faculty and staff at large Midwestern universities, the NAEB envisioned uses of broadcasting to improve society and educate both children and adults. The newsletter chronicles the NAEB's activities in advocating to the FCC for educational stations to obtain greater access to the public airwaves, coordinating the distribution of educational recordings, and planning the production of ambitious programs, such as 'People Under Communism' and 'The Jeffersonian Heritage,' which starred Claude Rains as Thomas Jefferson. This newsletter was digitized as part of the 'Unlocking the Airwaves' project, a collaboration among the University of Maryland, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Wisconsin Historical Society, with funding from the NEH. -- Stephanie Sapienza & Eric Hoyt, 2019.
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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Office of Executive Secretary Urbana, Illinois December 15, 1940 I \ NAEB MEETS IN CHICAGO The National Association of Educational Broadcasters held a meetin December 5, 1940 in the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, Illinois with President II. G. Ingham presiding. Possible places to hold the next annual convention were discussed by the membership. The executive secretary was directed to poll the membership regarding dates and places with a view to holding the meeting some time in June and at some quiet spot rather than in a metropolitan area. The secretary was also instructed to secure an early response from the F.C.C. regarding the special interpretations sought by the educational stations two-thirds of the assigned hours. A general discussion of the possibilities of frequency modulation was then held. The convention unanimously endorsed Dr. Arthur G. Crane, President of the University of Wyoming, as a person qualified to fill the present vacancy on the F.C.C. The executive secretary was* instrucl d to write the President of the United States informing him of the association action. Pre se nt at the me et i ng we re: Carl Menzer, W3UI; Jim Nelson, TSUI; Bob Allen, Indiana; Bob Kartii Indiana; H. B. McCarty, WHA; I. Keith Tyler, WOSU; H. G. Ingham, KF U; Jos. F. bright, WILL; Burton Paulu, WLB; and Frank Schooley, WILL. Other NAEB members seen about the Mid-West School Broadcast Con¬ ference were: Mrs. Pearl Broxham, W3UI; Bill Sener, W3UI; Gilbert Williams, WBAA; and of course, Harold Kent, George Jennings, and others of the Chicago Radio Council. EDUCATORS URGE APPOINTMENT OF CRANE FOR F.C.C. The National Association of Educational Broadcasters went on record at their Chicago meeting as favoring the appointment of Dr. Arthur „ Crane to the vacancy on the Federal Communications Commission. Similar action was taken earlier by the National Association of