NAEB Newsletter (June 1945)

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NAEB NEWS LETTER Rage 2 * June I, 1945 Operation in these three alternative bands will be studied by a committee of ENGINEERS FROM THE FCC AND FROM InOUSTRYo The RESULTS OF THEIR FINDINGS ON THE PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE BANOS AND ON THE PROBABLE INTER¬ FERENCE PROBLEMS WHICH WILL ARISE AS A RESULT OF PROPAGATION PECULIARITIES WILL DETERMINE WHICH OF THE THREE ALTERNATIVES WILL BE SELECTED FOR THE FINAL ALLOCATION* INCIDENTALLY, NAEBeR, H|QGY OF WOSU IS WORKING ON THIS .COMMITTEE* FM ANO TELEVISION COOPERATE ON PftQPQSEO ALLOCATION PLAN Fm Broadcasters, Inc., and Television Broadcasters Association announced RECENTLY THEY HAVE SUBMITTED TO THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS CoMMISSIOM A SUGGESTED PLAN FOR ALLOCATING FREQUENCIES FOR 30TH SERVICES* The ANNOUNCEMENT, RELEASED BY FM BROADCASTERS, INC*? SAID THE PLAN CALLS FOR ALLOWING FM 90 CHANNELS BETWEEN 50,000 AND 68,000 KILOCYCLES, AND COMMERCIAL TELEVISION 13 CHANNELS BETWEEN 68,000 AND 216,000 KILOCYCLES* Since the FCC already has allocated seven channels to commercial television BETWEEN 174,000 AND 216,000 KILOCYCLES, THE PERTINENT FEATURE OF THE PLAN SO FAR AS TELEVISION IS CONCERNED IS THAT TELEVISION WOULD RECEIVE SIX CHANNELS BETWEEN 68,000 AND I08,000 KILOCYCLES* The ANNOUNCEMENT BY FM BROADCASTERS, InC.» AND TELEVISION BROADCASTERS Association said, however, that although both will cooperate with the FCC IN THE TESTS NEITHER ORGANIZATION ’'BELIEVES THE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT MIGHT BE GATHERED WILL WARRANT THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF SUCH OELAY." FCC SAID IT HAD NOT YET RECEIVED THE PLAN AND THAT COMMENT WOULD NOT BE FORTHCOMING UNTIL THE COMMISSION HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY IT. JAZZ CONCERT ON WNYC Eddie Condon, ranking jazz authority, and thirty exponents of this type of popular music, participated in the first Cjty Center jazz concert, to be heard on the City Station, Monday, May *4, from 9'30-9:55 P.M* Mr * Condon, whose contention is that the jazz capital of the world has SHIFTED FROM New ORLEANS TO NEW YqRK, ASSEMBL ED OUT STAND ING JAZ7 ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO PERFORM IN THE PROGRAM OF SOLO AND COLLECTIVE IMPROVISATIONS* PRIOR TO THE MONOAY BROADCAST, Mr. CoNDON WILL INTERVIEW SOME OF THE ARTISTS BN WNYC PREVIEWS OF THE CONCERT* WSUI AIRS SPEECH CONTEST The Department of Speech, which sponsored the national forensic league REGIONAL EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING CONTEST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF I 0'*‘A, PRESENTED TWO PROGRAMS OVER STATION 'SU I ON Friday, May 4* The CONTEST hao representatives^ from Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Missouri, each representative was a winner in his own state* At four o'clock, a number of the speakers vere interviewed over Station KSUI by Bob Ray of the speech department. A t eight o’clock, I broad¬ cast THE FINALS OF THE REGIONAL EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING CONTEST HELD IN the Senate Chamber of Old Capitol. At that time the four dinners of the semi-finals in the afternoon delivered their speeches*