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’ 16 - FREQUENCY MODULATION ASSOCIATION MARKS THE 1948 SCOIEBOARD Everett Dillard, president and T'illiam Bailey, secretary of FMA report the follow¬ ing facts to show how FM is growing: 1. FM stations increased from 136 to 412 during past year* 2. FM service already available to 60,000,000 listeners. 3. FM networks "in the making” number nearly 12. 4. FM facilities investment now totals $100,000,000. 5. FM equipped receivers last year number 1,175,000. 6. FM stationsto be on the air by January 1 will number 1000. Mr. Bailey made these predictions: 1. One-thousand FM stations will be on the air by next January 1. 2. FM will reach 117,000,000 listeners or 8J+% of the U.S. population. 3. FM business in 1943 will run $500,000,000 SOUTH DAKOTA COMMERCIAL BROADCASTERS MEET AT N-A-E-B STATION KUSD Led in discussion by John F. Meagher, (KYSM, Mankato, Minnesota) NAB District 11 director, South Dakota Broadcasters have formed the South Dakota Broadcaster’s Association at a meeting called by N-A-E-B station KUSD, University of South Dakota. Secretary of the new organization is Irving Merrill, KUSD director. Resolutions passed included one urging the University of South Dakota physics department to initiate courses leading to the degree of communications electronics engineer. Rates for political broadcasts were determined following a discussion of NAB standard of practice. UNITED NATIONS USING CANADIAN SHORTTAVE The United Nations radio division is making experimental use of the big CBC trans¬ mitter at Sackville, New Brunswick, to beam its broadcasts to Australia and New Zealand. UN is trying the experiment because CBC’s strong signal has been reaching into Central Europe, and Russia. (UN broadcasts to the Antipodes have, in the past, been carried to the U.S. V r est Coast and relayed from Hawaii.) RURAL FM NETWORK TO GO ON AIR IN NEW YORK IN MAY The Rural Radio Network, composed of ten different cooperative farm organizations including the New York State Grange and the New York State Farm Bureau Federation, will go on the air early in May using radio relay links instead of the usual tele¬ phone lines. Eith headquarters in Ithaca, N.Y., three of the six FM stations in the net will be operating by that time. There will be stations in Newfield, Hermitage, Bristol Center, DeRuyter, Cherry Valley, and Turin, New York. NORTH CAROLINA VIERS EDUCATIONAL FM NETWORK Governor Cherry of North Carolina has appointed a State Education FM Radio committee to explore the advisability of the state entering the educational FM field and join¬ ing the expanding list of universities, colleges, and city school systems who find FM radio a unique and valuable tool as an educational and public service device. Named as chairman of the committee is Dr. Clyde Erwin, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Meeting, which took place March 2,was for the purpose of looking over performances of FM stations in other areas of the country and studying the prospects and opportunities for educational FM radio as they exist in North Carolina f