NAEB Newsletter (Oct 1945)

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MAES NEWS LETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS A, James Ebel, Editor, Station WILL* Urbana, Ill,o October 5, 1945 NAEB HOLDS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION TWENTY REPRESENT ATf VES FROM NAEB MEMBER STATIONS CONVENED IN THE MADI¬ SON Room of the LaSalle Hotel, September 17 and 13 for two days of pro¬ vocative DISCUSSION and exchange of ideas on educational broadcasting,, When the meetings were concluded Tuesday afternoon, everybody in attend¬ ance AGREED THAT IT HAD BEEN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL CONVENTIONS IN YEARS* The Monday morning session was given over to station reports. There WERE MANY NEW AND INTERESTING PROGRAM IDEAS SUCH A S t (l) THE CURTIS Childrens Program—prepared by the Curtis Publishing Company but a VERY GOOO NON-COMMERCIAL CHILDRENS SHOW NEVERTHELESS (COLEMAN OF WKA^); (2) Sowa Editors Program-lives, opinions, and philosophies of Iowa NEWS 0 APER EDITORS COLLECTED BY THE JOURNAL«SM STAFF AND PREPARED INTO A RADIO SCRIPT (MENZER WSU I ); (3) CHILDREN^ %SZ~~A REGULAR OUI7 SHOW FOR CHILDREN WITH THE QUESTIONS BEARING ON GRAMMAR, LITERATURE, SPELL¬ ING, etc, (Menzer WSUl); (4) i Saw ? t Hap°en—a script on recent events PREPARED FROM THE ACTUAL PUBLISHED WORK OF SOME ONE WHO WAS ON THE SPOT WHEN THE EVENT TOOK PLACE, (MILLER KUOM ); (5) EnC -RE PROGRAM —A REPEAT PERFORMANCE OF ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS ON THE STATION DURING THE WEEK, (McCarty WHA)* There were many others reported which should be men¬ tioned HERE BUT LACK OF SPACE AND THE TEMPERATURE OF YE EDITOR’S NOTES PREVENTS THEIR INCLUSION, The REPORT ON BUDGETS WAS INTERESTING, MOST OF THE STA"IONS ARE EX¬ PANDING THEIR BUDGETS * SEVERAL WEFE ALMOST DOUBLED, WO I AND WKAR ARE SPONSORING THEIR FOOTBALL BROADCASTS 0 WCHU TAKES OMME RC f A L PRO¬ GRAMS TO DEFRAY OPERATION EXPENSES IN ORDER TO FINANCE THEIR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS., WHA PUT THRU A BUDGET ITEM OF OVER $70*000 FOR FM STATIONS IN THE LAST HOURS OF THE LEGISLATIVE S£SSION--BILL HARLEY DID THE LOBBY¬ ING, WKAR gets Federal Ag 9 assistance for their budget* WNYC has no BUDGET WORRIES AS LONG AS THEY CONTINUE TO DO THE JOB, Reports on the staffing of stations showed that stations reporting OPERATED WITH SURPRISINGLY LARGE STAFFS, a LARGE PART OF MOST OF THE OPERATING BUDGETS WERE FOR SALARIES AND IMAGES, There seemed, from these station reports, to be an increasing trend to¬ ward ON THE SPOT PICKUPS FOR EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTS, WHA KEEPS ITS RECORDING TRUCK BUSY CONSTANTLY* WO I HAS A WIRE RECORDER FOR OUTSIDE PICKUPS, WNYC GOES ALL OVER NEW YORK Cl TV %0 GET EDUCATIONAL AND CUL¬ TURAL PROGRAMS * W03(J MAKES MANY. MOBILE PICKUPS USING SHORTWAVE * SO MUCH FOR THE STATION REPORTS 0