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OHIO RADIO IF8 n ITUTB R^CQRDIFGS - 10 - A record number of program entries and requests marked this year’s exhibition of recordings and public service programs at the Institute for Education by Radio, Ohio State University. This is the 12th Annual American Exhibition of Educational Radio programs, Although definite figures are not available, Ur. I. Keith Tyler, director of the 18-year old Institute said indications point to an all-time high total of programs to be entered in this year’s exhibition, COi-lMUI'TI CAT I OPS COl^URUHCE AT ILLINOIS U . The recently established Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, headed by Wilbur Schramm, and established by Dr. George D. Stoddard, president of the University.held a special conference on communications in mid- January in Champaign-Urbana. Many prominent people -from the mass media field were present, including Robert Blakely, editorial staff, Des Moines Register and Tribune; Dr, Paul Lazarfeld, and others. Hugh M. Belville, Jr., director of re¬ search for K3C spoke on the subject, "The Challenge of the Hew Media of Communications.” Belville told the group the field of mass communications faces a-period of evolu¬ tion comparable to the combined effect of introducing the rotary press and the motion picture camera to the world simultaneously . The new media—television , frequency modulation, and facsimile broadcasting —- can be a hig help in dispelling •public ignorance and apathy concerning crucial problems of the day,_He -pointed out that a Gallup noil showed 60 per cent of the American -public had no knowledge of the Marshall Plan and 39 per cent of the Taft-Uartley law. He saw three challenges which had to be met before these media are fully established, they are : technical and artistic mastery of each medium, sufficient advertising sup-port, and government control . BAPTIST^ PT.AH Eli PET WORK U? TEXAS Annlication for an PM butlet has been made by the San Antbnio Baptist Association to the FCC. This is nart of a proposed state Bantist network. Dr, Alton Reed of Dallas has been emuloyed by the Texas Bantist General convention to direct network organization. Other stations are to be at Baylor University, Hardin-Simmons, Mary-Pardin-Baylor College, and churches in Beaumont, Houston and Lubbock. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY FORMALLY DEDICATES ITU" STUDIOS Formal dedication of the new $40,000 Temple TMiVersity radio studios took place in late January when the student-operated (low-radiation) station, WTRI, goes on the air, participating in the ceremonies was station WFJL, radio outlet of the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper, which contributed $25,000 for construction of the campus studios, and which cooperated with Temple University in establishing Philadelphia’s first school of radio. A documentary drama by the university’s radio workshop together with a talk by Temple University president, Robert L. Johnson, were transcribed by WFIL for later broadcast with WFIL-FM carrying the entire proceedings. Temple University’s radio installation consists of four studios, two 25 x 30 feet; one 12 x 18 feet, and an announcer’s news booth 8 x 10 feet and modern in-put equipment throughout.