NAEB Newsletter (Nov 1944)

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November I, 1944 NA£B NEWS LETTER. . . P AQE 5 . Indiana composers* Harry Skornia is in charge* Cooper, a native of Columbus, Indiana and an alumnus of Indiana University, IS A COMPOSER BY AVOCATION AND MANY OF HIS WORKS HAVE BEEN PRESENTED ON NATIONAL RADIO NETWORKS* SEVERAL OF HIS COMPOSITIONS WILL BE PLAYED ON the Sunday program on WIRE, STUDEBAKER TESTIFIES BEFORE FCC HEAR IMG The Federal Communications Commission has been asked to prepare for the DAY WHEN EDUCATIONAL RADIO PROGRAMS MAY TAKE THE PLACE OF PRESENT HOMEWORK METHODS IN THE NATION 8 S SCHOOLS . United States Commissioner of Education, Or, John Studebaker, told the GROUP that 28 STATES ARE PLANNING COMPREHENSIVE FREQUENCY MODULATION BROAD¬ CASTS ALONG THESE LINES — DESIGNED TO REACH INTO EVERY SCHOOL AND HOME WITHIN THEIR BORDERS* ThE EDUCATOR ESTIMATED THAT THESE STATES REPRESENT 51 PER CENT OF THE NAT!ON®S AREA AND 75 PER CENT OF ITS POPULATION* IN ADDITION, SAID STUDEBAKER, EDUCATIONAL F~M STATIONS ARE BEING PLANNED LOCALLY BY CITY SCHOOL SYSTEMS, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN SIX OTHER STATES* The education commissioner urged that 15 F-M channels be set aside after THE WAR FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES* THIS FIGURE WOULD BE THREE TIMES THE PRESENT NUMBER* STUDEBAKER ALSO ASKED THAT AT LEAST TWO TELEVISION CHANNELS ALSO BE RESERVED FOR SIMILAR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES* TYLER SEES CHANGES IN FUTURE A REVOLUTION in EDUCATION UNDER THE IMPACT OF NEW RADIO TECHNIQUES AFTER THE WAR WAS FORECAST BY I* Kg: I TH TyLER OF OHIO S T ATE UNIVERSITY AND PFFSIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATION BY RADIO* TyLER OFFERED HIS PREDICTION AT THE CLOSING SESSION OF THE SCHOOL BROADCAST CONFERENCE IN Chicago on October 24* Jl.ET'3 NOT root. OURSELVES," HE TOLD NEARLY 500 DELEGATES TO THE CONFERENCE- IF WE ACHIEVE OUR OBJECTIVE IN DEVELOPING RADIO FULLY IN THE SCHOOLS, IT WILL MEAN A REVOLUTION IN EDUCATION.” The ideal cituation, Tyler said, would be a radio in every schoolroom after THE WAR AND A TELEVISION THEATER IN EVERY SCHOOL* To COMPLETE THE PICTURE, HE ADDED, THERE MUST BE TEACHERS WHO UNDERSTAND RADIO AND WHO HAVE MASTERED ITS USE AS AN AID IN EDUCATION. TyLER DECLARED THAT ONLY ONE SCHOOL IN FIVE HAS EVEN ONE RADIO TODAY, AND ONLY ONE TEACHER IN 30 UNDERSTANDS THE USE OF RADIO FOR TEACHING* The Ohio educator said he expected that the number of standard A.m. BROADCASTING STATIONS IN THIS COUNTRY WOULD BE REDUCED TO ABOUT 100 BY 1955 — Most of them operating on clear channels. The number of commercial F.M. STATIONS, HE SAID, WOULD INCREASE TO ABOUT 3-THOUSAND, AND THE NUMBER OF EDUCATIONAL F.M* STATIONS ABOUT 300. ONLY ABOUT 300 TELEVISION TRANS¬ MITTERS WILL BE IN OPERATION, HE PREDICTED, AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY WILL VIEW TELEVISION ONLY IN THE THEATERS*