NAEB Newsletter (Mar 1948)

ANNUAL DUPONT A'.ATDS - 15 - Yearly awards were made to radio commentator Edward Miirrow and stations V.'BBM(Chicago) and bFIL(Philadelphia). Each will receive one thousand dollars plus a plaque for distinguished public service. The award to Murrow was presented "in recognition of his initiative in aggressive, independent, meritorious, gathering, interpretation and presentation of news through the medium of radio.” Awards to the two stations were "in recognition and appreciation of outstanding public service in encouraging, promoting, and developing American ideals of freedom and for loyal devoted service to the nation qnd the community it serves. 1 ' YftlYC'S ANNUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL NAEB station , EMC and FNYC-FM made its Ninth Annual American Music Festival a memo r able occasion for all concerned, receiving ?/ell-deserved praise for thi s g igantic prese ntati on* The Festi v al, held as in previous years from Li n coln' s Birthday thro ugh 1 ashington 1 s Birthday, was a gala 11-da y radio spotlight on Ameri ¬ can music . More than 100 specially programmed broadcasts of Ameri c an compositions were perf orm¬ ed by American artists o f every race, creed and colo r. Hi g hlight of the 1948 F e sti ¬ val was the record number of premiere performances of compositions by Americans . Particioating groups included such headliners as the l.S. Army Band, the Philharmonic Symphony of New York, Stuyvesant String Quartet, Julliard School of Music, National Orchestral Association, American Youth Symphony Orchestra, any number of participat¬ ing colleges and universities, and the Metropolitan Opera Association. j YINYC-FM GOES 20 KY.'. j New York’s Municipal Broadcasting System, under the direction of director, S Seymour Siegel, completed installation of a new Western Electric 20 KF transmitter in time to broadcast the Festival. In special ceremonies February 11, attending throwing of the switch, Col. John C, Bennet brought Mayor 0'Dwyer's greeting. Special guests included Frederick Lack, vice- president of Western Electric, and Major Armstrong, inventor of FM. This New York NAEB outlet now enjoys as much power as any other metropolitan radio butlet in the city. RADIO DIFFUSION FRANCAISE PLANS COMMERCIALS Pierre Crenesse, war correspondent and French radio commentator, was introduced in mid-March as new director of the French Broadcasting System in the United States. He indicated plans for the inauguration of advertising on Radio diffusion Francaise, the French government-owned broadcasting system. Under the plan, expected to begin in the near, future, French radio vdll remain under government ownership, and all accounts will be placed through a government advertising agency. Income received will be used exclusively for upkeep, improvement and expansion of broadcasting facilities throughout Fra nce t Before the war there were seycral privately-own e d French commercial stations which were taken over by the government dur i ng the conflict. RDF npw has 37 stations which form 3 networks . PDF is completely divorced. Crenesse reports, from partisan politics. There is no political censorship of an.v kind, and all shades of opinion are presented in news and forum programs, Objective of new revenue plan iq ftp, make French radio system completely independent, CBS ADVENTURES IN SCIENCE CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY "Adventures in Science", oldest^coast-to-coast science radio program (CBS) will mark its 18th anniversary on March 27 with the same speaker who launched the program in 1930—Dr. Barren S. Thompson of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.