NAEB Newsletter (August 1, 1944)

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N A £ 8 NEWS LETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS Frank E 0 Schooley, Editor, Station WILL, U r bana, Ill„ August 1, 1944 WNYC RECEIVES BILLBOARD PROMOTION AWARD WNYC, New York City, received a special citation from Billboard Magazine AS A PART OF ITS SEVENTH ANNUAL RADIO STATION PROMOTION SURVEY. The CITATION WAS GIVEN WNYC BY THE JUDGES OF THIS YEAR 8 S BILLBOARD SyRyEY h for making New York a better radio town.” WNYC was the only non¬ commercial RADIO STATION IN THE NATION TO RECEIVE AN AWARDe This special citation marks the second consecutive year that the Municipal Station has been singled out by the award committee of Billboard 8 s annual surveys for special recognition. Last year the radio editors of New York that formed the award committee presented WNYC with a citation FOR OUTSTANDING PUBLIC SERVICE TO THE CITIZENS OF NEW YoRKo This year, the judges were members of the leading advertising agencies ENGAGED IN RADIO SALES PROMOTION., ThEV INCLUDED CARLOS FRANCO VOF YquNG and Rubicam), Linnea Nelson (of J, w. Thompson), and Frank Silvernail (of Batten, Barton, Ourstine, and Osborne). FCC ANNOUNCES POLICY OF STATE-WIPE PLANS FOR FM The Federal Communications Commission has received information from the Ul Sc Office of Education concerning proposed state-wide plans for the ALLOCATION OF THE FIVE FREQUENCIES RESERVED FOR NON-COMMERCIAL EDUCATIONAL FM BROADCASTING STATIONS,, It APPEARS THAT SUCH PLANS, IF CAREFULLY PRE¬ PARED WITH A FIEW OF FAIR TREATMENT OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, BOTH URBAN AND RURAL, AT THE PRIMARY, SECONDARY, HIGHER? AND ADULT EDUCATION LEVELS ALIKE, MAY PROVIDE A SOUND MEANS FOR SECURING THE MAXIMUM POSSIBLE UTILIZATION OF EDUCATIONAL FREQUENCI ES. ACCORDINGLY, while the Commission must dispose of each application on its merits, it WILL GIVE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION IN CONNECTION WITH EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS TO ANY STATE-WIDE PLAN FILED WITH IT, The Commission 8 ^ rules define a^non-commercial educational broadcasting STATION 11 to MEAN "a STATION LICENSED TO AN ORGANIZED NON-PROFIT EDUCAT¬ IONAL AGENCY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ITS EDUCATIONAL WORK AND FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. WISCONSIN HOLD SUMMER RADIO INSTITUTE The Director of the Division of Radio Education at the University of Wisconsin - H. B e McCarty, better known as Mac —reports that he has been SWAMPED IN CONNECTION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SUMMER RADIO Institute, held July S7th through 24th, On the instructional staff of the Institute were H 0 L 0 Ewsank, Professor of Speech; William G* Harley, Assistant Director of WHA; Walter Krulevitch, Program Supervisor, WHA; Helen Hanford Stanley, Director, Radio Workshop, University of Alabama, and Mac.