NAEB Newsletter (Mar 1944)

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— » N A E B N £ f $ LETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EOUCAT’ONAL BROADCASTERS Frank E. Scnooley, Editor, Station WILL, Urbana, III. March I, 1944 RAOIO ACTIVITIES IN CHICAGO SCHOOLS Station WBEZ, the FM station owned and operated by the Chicago Board or Education presenteo, ouring the first semester of 1943-44, October through Januaryi 208 total hours or programs for in-school use. In presenting these programs 1370 stuocnts from the Chicago schools took part as actors, SOUNO MEN, ANNOUNCERS, OR VISITED THE STUDIOS AS AUDIENCE. In addition to the 2 08 hours of operation of WBEZ the Raoio Council, PRODUCING DEPARTMENT FOR THE BOARD OF ^DUCATION, PRESENTED !47 BROADCASTS OVER LOCAL STANDARD STATIONS. WIND HEADS THE LIST WITH 69 PROGRAMS, A TOTAL OF 17 HOUR8 AND *5 MINUTES OF BROADCASTING; WJJD WAS USED FOR 58 PROGRAMS, 14 HOURS, 30 MINUTES; WMAQ, 14 PROGRAMS, 7 HOURS; AND STATIONS WBBM AND WCFL SHAREO THE BALANCE of THE TIME OF 2 HOURS ANO 45 MINUTES. In GROUPS OF APPROXIMATELY 30 STUDENTS, 547 CHMEREN FROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS VISITED THE STUOIOS TO OBSERVE AND LISTEN TO THEIR FAVORITE IN¬ SCHOOL PROGRAMS. W8£Z HAS INCREASED ITS TOTAL DAILY HOURS OF OPERATION FOR THE SECOND SEMESTER BY ONE HOUR ANO 15 MINUTES, ACCORDING TO &EORGE JENNINGS, ACTING Director of the Radio Council and WBEZ. KENTUCKY*S "HELLO NEIGHBOR" TRANSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE Elmer Sulzer, Oirector of Public Relations at the University of Kentucky, writes: M We HAVE AVAILABLE A SERIES OF 24 15-MfNUTE RECORDINGS ENTITLED "Hello Neighbor.." Each of these programs was produced at the University of Kentucky studios and was broadcast over WHAS, Louisville, the series JUST ENDING THIS WEEK* EACH PROGRAM IS DEDICATED TO ONE PARTICULAR LaTIN-AmERICAN COUNTRY ANO CONTAINS MUSIC OF THAT PARTICULAR COUNTRY^ AS WELL AS AN INTERVIEW WITH ONE OF OUR LaT I N-AmERICAN STUDENTS. "UNIVERSITY of Kentucky" appears only at the end of each program and can be deleted IF DESIRED." The series is already scheduled on WILL, CHINA SCRIPTS AVA 3 LA8LE The Chinese News Service, 201 N. Wells Street, Chicago 6, Illinois is OFFERING A SERIES OF 10 SCRIPTS ON CHINA. ThE SCRIPTS ARE IN THE ORDER OF AN INTERVIEW BETWEEN A CHINESE AND A STUDENT. YOU MAY SUPPLY BOTH Chinese and student. The scripts may be adapted to your own local neeos. George Jennings has used a similar series wjth Chinese available in the Chicago area. WILL ns using the adapted series with Chinese graduate students.