NAEB Newsletter (December 2, 1946)

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MEMBER STATION REPORTS - 2 - University of Michigan . ... - Pending the o or ation of its own Ft.! station, the institution is providing programs for other stations as follows: yy-JK . 2 half-hour and 1 quarter-hour programs WKAR .......... 3 twenty-five minute programs Y^pag . 5 quarter-hour programs YiYjj . 3 quarter-hour programs VilKZO & YiJEF. 1 twenty-five minute program (tentative) A transcription network service is planned in cooperation with the Michigan State Medical Society. „ , 0 . . , „ „ _ The FM development is being delayed because of the lack of materials fo c structing the transmitter house. The call letters ViiATX have been assigned—but are unsatisfactory to the University. About fifty alternate calls have been pro¬ posed—but none of them could be made available. A new building which will house the Broadcasting Service is now in the ”hole-in-the-ground’ stage.^ The present staff: Y.aldo Abbot, director of broadcasting service; Donald E. Hargis, Hymns of Freedom program producer; Robert D. Essig,.Technician; Robert Bouwsma, production; Elizabeth Cole Stevens, continuity editor; Hans Pick, music; and Adele Sefton, secretary. Umversii^ution ^ —— tWQ stations, Yi ILL (AM) licensed in 1922, and WIUC (FM ^ILL 6 operates^^ytime, seven days a week. It takes the opportunities of those living in the University community to the "larger university campus which is the YYIUC received its equipment just before the "freeze” order. Its service is limited at present because of the shortage of receivers m tne area. Plans a under way for a new and more powerful transmitter, and an expanded program service. Special evening broadcasting permission has been obtained for basketball.games (all home and ‘away-from-home games this season) for TWILL. Station also carries the football and baseball games. , , _ T , 91 1Q y,n 3000 farm broadcasts—that *s the record WILL completed on November 21 1946. It does a full hour for rural listeners each week day—and that’s a lot ot agri A U booklet of "Governing Policies" has been printed by HILL. Stations ering restating their own administrative or operational structure should ask for copy. Also get the Organizational Chart which Frank Schooley has prepared. Director Schooley and Ex. UAEB Executive Secretary, Jim Bbel have been out visiting. Their jaunts, in the interests of football primarily, took them to Waldo Abbot and V,allace Garneau at Michigan on October 25, and to Bloomington on the day of the Illinois-Indiana football game, but Harry Skornia was absent. Jim Mies and his IfiEAA crew visited at Urbana on October 5. More of us should get around to see how our colleagues are operating—and not wait for football as an excuse necessarily.