NAEB Newsletter (August 1, 1943)

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N A £ 9 N £ IV S LETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS Frank £. Schooley, Editor, Station WILL, Urbana, III* August I, 1943 SEND IN YOUR UNI LEVEL QUESTIONNAIRE PRONTO!! Mike Hanna, WHCU, Chairman of the Joint AER-NAEB Committee to study the EXTENT ANO EFFECTIVENESS OF UNIVERSITY LEVEL BROADCASTING SAYS THE INFORMATION ON HAND IS NOV,’ BEING COMPILED AND ANALYZED* Furthermore, he says a number of NAEB stations haven*? responded to the QUESTIONNAIRE. THAT SHOULDN'T BE THE C A E» So IF YOU HAVEN * T SENT IN THE DOPE ON YOUR OWN PROGRAMS, V’H V NOT 00 IT NOW. , 0 IT NOW BEFORE YOU delay action again* What is that old adage about never putting off to TOMORROW.—‘‘STOP ScHOOLEY, I ’ LL SEND MINE IN PRONTO." WNAD PKOCRA;.. ,;£R I IS ATTSLTI C«\ A recent issue of TIME MAGAZINE carried an article on the “Indians for Indians Hour” program broadcast by University radio station WNAD. The PROGRAM, HEADED BY Don WHISTLER, NORMAN, HAS ALSO RECEIVED NATIONAL PUBLICITY IN VARIETY MAGAZ I ME , TUNE IN radio JOURNAL AND THE OMAHA WORLD-TELEGRAM. Virginia Hawk, WNAD director, has received a request from the Congressional Library in Washington, D* C a , for recordings of the program for their files, ano the Columbia Broadcasting System has asked permission to include it in the School of the Air series to be broadcast next fall. “Indians for Indian Hour" may be heard on WNAD (640 kilocycles) from 1:00 to 1:30 on Tuesday* WNYC WINS “SPECIAL Al AQ» BILLBOARD POLL WNYC, New York City’s Municipal Station won a "Special Award for out¬ standing PUBLIC SERVICE" ACCOrDING TO SELECTIONS OF THE AWARDS COMMITTEE CONSISTING OF JOHN K a HUTCHENS, RADIO EDITOR OF THE Ne’ YORK TtMES, Harriet Van Horne, radio editor of the World-Telegram, 8en Gross, radio editor of the New V'ork Daily News, Leonaro Tf.aube, editor of Billboard, in Billboard Magazine’s Sixth Annual Radio Fusl.icitv Exhibit Survey* The statement of the Committee in granting WNYC this special recognition reads in part,*,* *“The City outlet, being non-commercial, tackles PUBLICITY TO ROUND OUT ITS PUBLIC SERVICE IMPRINT WHERE THE STANDARD STATION SHOOTS FOR SPACE BECAUSE IT MEANS DOLLARS AND CENTS, News ABOUT RATIONING, SELECTIVE SERVICE, OCD AND CONSUMER ACTIVITIES ARE STANDARD WITH WNYC. In ADDITION, THEY DO A WHOPPING JOB ON THE CULTURAL SIDE* Typical of the latter ”as its annual festival of American music. 1 The STATEMENT WENT ON TO ADD THAT 11 I T (WNYC) OPERATES ON A SHOESTRING, THE POLITICAL ’OUTS 9 GUN FOR IT EVERY YEAR, YET DESPITE EVERY HANDICAP IT PRODUCES PROGRAM SCHEDULES THAT ARE STRICTLY IN THE BIG GUN CLASS."