NAEB Newsletter (Apr 1943)

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NAEB NOS LETTER, April 1, 1943 Page 3, "Things are moving along rather smoothly for us this year so far as the radio programs are concerned. Our greatest problem is still that of securing an adequate budget to finance the kind of programs tit t we want to present* And we are still limited to a fraction of the time that we would like to use in broadcasting if it were possible to finance a new transmitter and secure a frequency which do# a not involve sharing time with a Blue Network station* Perhaps this will come after the war* In the meantime, we are endeavoring to do the be3t we can with the facilities and time at our disposal." The University of Kansas is nroviding various types of training for women who wish to aid, or whose help may be necessary* in the war effort* The slogan —"Every Woman in a War Course" — was adopted at the beginning of the sohool year and the University young women responded by enrolling in suoh courses as Elementary Aeronautics, First Aid, Home Nursing* Nurses Aide, utrition, Canteen, Occupational Therapy, Camouflage, Aerial Photograph, %fcerology, Navigation, Map Heading and Interpretation, Military Law, Engineering Drawing. Secretarial ©raining , Bacteriology, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Medical Entomology, Nursing, and ^edecine KFKTJ, the University 1 s station, is broadcasting from the classroom of one of these courses on Tuesday evenings, at 9:45. ' However* all but one of the programs in March will be in the nature of talks or dialogues* It is impossible to broadoast fro# the classroom of Nursing and ^edecine as these courses are given at the University Sohool of Medicine in Kansas City* The class in Nurses Aides will be broadcast from the classroom here on the campus* WNYC RECEIVES MUNICIPAL ART 3001ETY CITATION Municipal broadcasting station WNYC, on March 23rd, was awarded the "Citation of Merit" for outstanding cultural service to the City f New York given annually by the Municipal Art Society of the City o* ^ew York* Ely Jacques Kahn,president of the Municipal Art Society and a noted arohiteot and writer on art, made the presentation on behalf of the Society in a ceremony broadoast by WNYC. IS. S. Kovik, director of the municipal station, reoeived the oitation of merit for the City, WNYC and its staff. The award was the result of WNYC’e many outstanding broadcasts in the field of music, inoluding its own annual American Music Bestifpl, and the many regularly scheduled WNYC broadcasts dealing with the city’s museums and art exhibits* W39NY„ NEW YORK’S FM STATION* BSG-INS TRIAL PERIOD The Municipal Broadcasting System welcomed a new baby brother into its organization the week of March 23 when W39NY, New York City 8 s Fm 3tatiai began a period of trial broadcasts* On the air daily from 2P.M. till 5 P*Mo and again from 7 till Ssl5, W39NY is heard on the Frequency Mod¬ ulation Range at 43«9 megacycles* With the trial broadcast period now bringing FU listeners many of the public service, news, and music features currently heard over WNYC the Municipal Broadcasting System looks for¬ ward to the day when W39NY beginsits full-time schedule of service to New Yorkers.