NAEB Newsletter (Jan 1945)

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NAEB NEWS LETTER Page 8 . . . . o .. January 1945 TOGETHER AND f-'O SOME HORSE TRAD I NG TOO.... J WISH SOMEBODY WOULD MAKE UP THEIR MINDS ABOUT FRENCH TELEVISION, FlRST ITS SUPERIOR, THEN ITS INFERIOR, AND NOW ITS SUPERIOR AGAIN IN THE LATEST REPORTS. PERHAPS THE TROUBLE IS THAT TOO MANY NBC AND CBS FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS ARE INTERVIEWING TOO MANY French cooks. Mayse Mutual should send a correspondent over there to MEDIATE, OR BETTER STILL, MAYBE THE BOYS OVER THERE SHOULD TRY TO DIG UP A LITTLE BETTER WAR NEWS.„.<>ThE VIEWS OF Lewis A. WeISS, GIVEN ON TELEVISION AT THE RECENT TELEVISION BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE SEEM PRETTY SOUND TO THIS DEPARTMENT. You’ll RUN ON TO THEM IN ANY REPORT OF CON¬ FERENCE activities....The U.s, Office of Education has issued a helpful BULLETIN FM FOR EDUCATION. 11 BETTER GET A COPY. . . . Ai_SO ENCLOSED WITH THIS News Letter is a card describing a suggested improvement in basketball BROADCASTING FATHERED BY YOU KNOW WHO. We ARE TRYING TO GET THE SYSTEM UNIVERSALLY ADOPTED BY ALL SPORTSCASTERS SO THAT THE PICTURE OF THE FLOOR AREAS WILL BECOME GRAPHIC IN THE MINDS OF THE LISTENER. So FAR THE SYSTEM HAS THE BACKING OF ALL THE COACHES CONTACTED, MOST OF THE SPORTS WRITERS, MOST OF THE SPORTSCASTERS CONTACTED, AND MOST OF THE LISTENERS WHO HAVE HEARD IT USED IN BROADCASTING. PASS THE CARD ALONG TO YOUR SPORTS MAN AND HAVE HIM DROP ME A LINE WITH HIS COMMENTS. The CUT IS AVAILABLE IF YOU WANT TO PUT OUT THE DIAGRAM AS PROMOTION FOR Y0UR BASKETBALL BROADCASTS.... And That i s That. F.C.C. ACTIONS An APPLICATION BY RADIO STATION WOf , TO EXTEND ITS BROADCAST TIME 10 THE EARLY MORNING HOURS, WAS GRANTED IN PART DcC.9 BY THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS Comm Ission. The commission, in a divided opinion, authored WOt to broadcast with one THOUSAND WATTS FROM 6 A.M. TO 8 A.M., CENTRAL ^ AR T|mE, DURING DECEMBER, January and February, and from 6 a.m. until average local sunrise time DURING THOSE MONTHS WHEN 6 A.M. OCCURS PRIOR TO LOCAL SUNRISE. THE ONE-THOUSAND WATT AND OTHER RESTRICTIONS WERE ORDERED, THE COMMISSION SAID, TO PREVENT INTERFERENCE WITH STATION KFI OF LOS AngeLES. WO I is PERMITTED TO BROADCAST WITH ITS AUTHORIZED POWER OF FIVE THOUSAND WATTS DURING THE OTHER HOURS OF THE DAY FOR WHICH IT IS LICENSED. Commissioners Paul A. Walker and Clifford J. Durr said in an opinion that THEY FAVORED GRANTING THE STATION’S FULL REQUEST FOR FIVE THOUSAND WATT OPERATION FROM 6 A.M. TO LOCAL SUNSET, HOLDING THAT THE STATION’S INTER¬ FERENCE WITH KFI WOULD BE OF LITTLE CONSEQUENCE AND WOULO OCCUR, BECAUSE OF GEOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCE IN TIME, FROM 4 A.M., AND TWO HOURS BEFORE SUNRISE, Los Angeles Time, when few people in Los Angeles would be Listening. Acting Commission Chairman E. K. Jett and Commissioner Norman S, Case OBJECTEO TO THE APPLICATION. They CONTENDED THAT IT VIOLATED COMMISSION RULES CONCERNING SUCH SITUATIONS AND MIGHT RESULT IN WHAT THEY TERMED “The FLOW OF A LARGE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS REQUESTING SIMILAR TREATMENT WHICH, IF GRANTED, WOULD RESULT IN SERIOUS INTERFERENCE WITH BROADCASTING AND THE PIECE-MEAL REPEALING OF THIS RULE." Western Illinois State Teachers Collego of Macomb# Illinois has applied FOR A NON-COMMERCIAL EDUCATIONAL BROADCAST STATION TO BE OPERATED ON ONE Or THE EDUCATIONAL FREQUENCIES WITH A POWER OF NOT LESS THAN > KW. ; i — Ebel