NAEB Newsletter (Mar 1947)

-7- STATION REPORTS WNYC-New York City . Seymour Siegel has just guided his station through an 11-day American Music Festival. This is an annual event between Lincoln's and Washington’s birthdays which focuses on America’s musical heritage. In addition to well-known music, the works of new composers and artists were performed. New York's foremost musical organizations participated in specially arranged programs. Using land lines between the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and New York, WNYC is planning for an exchange of programs. CBS has been using the lines for United Nations reporting, and an exchange of four programs each way is reported in the planning stage. KWSC-Washington State College. Pullmaru A dynamic noise suppressor has been procured. "We heard about it in October," Fred Hayward said, "just about the time that maintenance of high program standards without frequent repetition of preferred transcriptions was proving a real problem to us, as to many broadcast stations. The problem had been "solved" in the past at KWSC through the frequent use of commercial phonograph records, but unfortunately even the best of such records are characterized by a high background noise level; this is particularly apparent on high-grade receiving sets. KWSC was particularly interested, consequently, "Hayvard declared, "in a demonstration on December 22 of a ’Dynamic Noise Suppressor’ which promised to eliminate all surface scratching and remove the usual hollow 7 base distortion without any sacrifice to the high frequencies. KWSC announces a policy of feeding its best personnel into commercial radio. "We will have KWSC graduates contact the commercial stations; we will know the men and women well enough to give any manager a clear appraisal beforehand of the applicant’s ability. Each one will have won an A.B, degree and have had a four- year college education. Farming out to commercial stations during summers, practical w °rk engineering, working in music, traffic or production, announcing, newscasting on.a regional, and intensive study under a commercially-backgrounded staff- these things w/ill give interested trainees, we think, the showmanship and know-how which has made radio, cultured or not, the great force it has become. It will not harm, and it may help.".says the manager. WBKY-Univer si ty of Kentucky, Lexington . Elmer Sulzer, after reading the report last month says: "Don’t you know that WBKY was never an FM station at Beadttyville and ceased operating there completely three years.ago, moved to the University campus in Lexington and started there as an FM station in March 1945? Tsch, Tsch." (Sorry, Elmer, your Editor was away those days.) A teaching.department headed by Sulzer lists courses as Radio Today, Radio Announcing, Radio Drama, Radio Regulations, and Advanced Radio Announcing. Courses in script writing and production are contemplated for next year. WHA-FM-University of Wisconsin, Madison. The first transmitter in the state—wide network of FM stations being set up under the auspices of the Wisconsin State Radio Council will go on the air at 12:00 o'clock noon on March 30. It will be located on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison and will use 3 Kw. power on the 91.5 Me. frequency. WHA-FM will operate in close conjunction with WHA from the Radio Hall studios. A regular schedule of broadcasting beginning in the iate-afternoon and continuing throughout the evening will be maintained. The late-afternoon programs will be carried simultaneously on AM and FM, until WHA is obliged to leave the air at sundown. This will provide an opportunity for a comparison of quality and coverage.