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N-A-E-Q NEVVS- ER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS Radio Hall, Madison, l/visconsin February 1, 1947 m IS GROOVING On January 1, 1947, grants to FM applicants numbered 633. On January 1, 1936, there were 632 licensed broadcasting stations in the United States. Of the 633 applications, 427 had outright CPs and 206 had conditionals. Some 280 odd other applications were still pending. TYLER TO GERI/IANY Pr• Keith Tyler, Ohio radio education head, is leaving as a member of a 1/Var Department education mission to help with the instructional materials program for* schools in Germany. He is expected to return in April. Harrison B. Summers, OSU speech professor and former ABC public service director, will be acting director of the 1947 Institute for Education by Radio at Columbus. (May 2-5). JIM EBEL REPORTS Our EX-EX-SECY, now Director of Engineering for the Peoria Broadcasting Company after years at VvILL', reports on his activities at V<MBD. In what is fast becoming one of the most competitive radio cities in the country, he points to great strides in local public service programming. Included in his listing are religious features, schools’ programs, farm journal, vets' news, discussions on^civic issues,^notable guests and special events broadcasts. Ambitious taskJ Rad.io L'DZ, an affiliate in Tuscola, is developing a similar schedule. JiPi has been getting around the country considerably, and has the answers to many facilities questions. He is working on an FM set-up at the present time, and has designed a portable FM-AF demonstration unit to help sell the public on the new system. EVENING OPPORTUNITIES The lengthening days being with them, a chance for the "daytime” educational broadcasters to use a few of the highly desirable evening hours. This is a chance to demonstrate the kind of service which wide-awake non-commercials can give. ^ YOSU’s January program bulletin indicates that it must leave the air at 6:45. It provides a half-hour dinner concert with 6:30 features carrying these titles: Music Forecast, Keep Your Health in 1947, Down to Earth, Panel on Democracy, Family Life Today (Ohio PTA) and Ohio Education Looks Ahead. Tbesio are not high-pressure programs piped in from afar-but rather, features of local origin and interest. There is ample evidence that listeners are interested in v>/ell-produced local programs. In this field educational stations can compete on more than even terms. They have the facilities and the potential talent with which to make names for them¬ selves. How will the opportunity be used'J ~ « 15EMEERS? Every institution engaged in educational broadcasting needs NAEP and is needed by NAEB. Many need only an invitation to join. Institutions licensed to operate their own AM or FM facilities are eligible for active membership. Institutions using facilities other t harg their own may become associate members.____