NAEB Newsletter (Dec 1943)

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N A £ B N E W S L S T T £ R NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL 8ROADCASTERS Frank £. Schooley, Editor* Station WILL* UrBana, III, December I, 1943 NAEB URGES BAND RESERVATIONS FOR EDUCATION Meeting in conjunction with the School Broadcast Conference in Chicago on November 29, NAEB unanimously passed a resolution urging adequate provision BE MADE FOR EDUCATION IN ANY FUTURE ALLOCATION OF BROADCASTING FACILITIES, The resolution follows: "Foreseeing the possible and probable use of FM by education immediately AFTER THE WAR AND RECOGNIZING the NECESSITY FOR HAVING ADEQUATE FACILITIES AVAILABLE, THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS AOVOCATES5 •|. The reservation of ten channels in the spectrum for use of education* AND THAT THESE CHANNELS BE ADJACENT TO THOSE RESERVED FOR COMMERCIAL FM BROADCAST INGo "2. TMAT MORE ADEQUATE PROVISION BE MADE FOR USE OF FM RELAY STATIONS BY RESERVATION OF SEVEN OR MORE SUCH FREQUENCIES FOR EDUCATION. "3. The reservation for exclusive use of education, two channels in any assignment of such frequencies for television and that such channels shall BE adjacent to any assigneo commercial television." A copy of the resolution has been forwardeo to Commissioner John W. Studebaker of the Office of Education, urging the efforts of his office IN BEHALF OF ADEQUATE RESERVATION OF BROADCASTING FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION IN THE POST-WAR ERA BY THE FCC, KENT RECEIVES SBC "AWARD OF MERIT” The Fourth annual "Award of Merit," presented each year by the executive committee O'f the School Broadcast Conference for "outstanding and meri¬ torious service in educational radio" was made to Major Harold W # Kent, oirector of the Radio Council, Chicago Public Schools and president of the Association for Education by Radio, on military leave in Washington. Major Kent was selected by the sponsoring committee of the School Broad¬ cast Conference: composed of 50 leaders in the educational field of radio FOR HIS SERVICE to RADIO BOTH AS AN EDUCATOR AND AS a WARTIME MILITARY OFFICER. The "Award of Merit" in previous years has gone to Judith Waller, PUBLIC SERVICE DIRECTOR, MI0WE3T DIVI8I0N, NBC, CHICAGO; STERLING MSHER, ASSISTANT TO THE EDUCATIONAL COUNSELLOR, NBC, AND ROBERT HUDSON, DIRECTOR of the Rocky Mountain Radio Counoil, Denver. NOTES FROM CHICAGO MEETING The Association also voted to provide the A£R JOURNAL with a series of ARTICLES ON NAEB STATIONS. MORE DETAILS WILL BE SUPPLIED IN A LATER ISSUE OF THE NEWS LETTER....Nov IK, WNYC, was unable to attend because of oeath OF HIS CHIEF ENGINEER AND CLOSE FRI END....QeaN CaLDWELL OF OREGON DIED