NAEB Newsletter (Mar 1948)

Membership Lists and New Members - 13 - A new and corrected list of N-A-E-B members (now number 31 in 26 states) is being sent to all members and directors and will be in the mail in the very near future. All present members are urged to study these lists and also the roster of FCC educa¬ tional actions in the Newsletter, and to encourage every new aspirant to educational radio to join N-A-E-B, This is a particular responsibility of regional directors—and the way this has been fulfilled by many of them to date is very gratifying. It is highly important that every broadcasting or producing agency be affiliated with N-A-E-B, not only to strengthen the common cause, but for self-help. In the last three months N-A-E-B headquarters has been able to offer helpful engineer¬ ing advice to two stations in Texas, a station in South Dakota, a station in Kansas, and to offer policy advice with respect to the FCC and other matters to stations in six other states. Station . Costs and Staff Harry Skornia, director of radio at Indiana University now reports the study con¬ ducted by George Willeford on educational radio stations is ready for release in final form. If the cooperating stations voice no objection to its release (and they should not since a variable code conceals individual station identify)we should have the basis for a set of standards on salaries, equipment, and other items for those of us now operating stations and those who plan to get into educational broadcasting. Membership Processing????? Each regional director (regions 1-2-3-4-5-6) should now have in his hands, the appli¬ cation form for new members. (If any director is without this supply he should con¬ tact the president’s office immediately). It is suggested the regional director should approach the prospective member with this form, have it filled out, keep duplicate records for the regional office, and then forward the original to T . I, Griffith, N-A-E-B treasurer, WOI, Ames, Iowa, Griffith will then write the new mem¬ ber, arrange the billing, file the master copy, send copies of his correpondence to the regional director so everyone is informed all around, (Individual members as well as regional directors are urged to write for a supply of these blanks if they do not have them), STATION MANAGERS: PLEASE NOTE AND RESPOND’’’ N-A-E-B headquarters is compiling complete- sets of data on stations and station cov¬ erage in two master files—one of which will follow the president’s office from location to location each year—and the other which will remain in the treasurer’s hand s, A major aspect of this file is STATION COVERAGE. Fill each of you pleas e furnish N-A-E-B headquarters the following information in the form suggestion? 1, An outline of your primary, secondary, and tertiary, area in millivolts on a Rand McNally County Outline Map, 8 x 11 si ze (obtainable at any bookstore). Please send two copies of these coverage circles. In case you are directional, please be precise about the contour, 2, Any data on actual audience you may have in the form of mail-count maps, BMB reports (1946) or any other survey information. 3, Please also furnish an accurate listing of your call letters, your power (day and night), and—if FM—both your rated and effective power, and location. A ROUGH PRELIMINARY CHECK--THIGH FE RANT TO CONFIRM—FOULD INDICATE N-A-E-B STATIONS POTENTIALLY COULD REACH 16 MILLION PEOPLE WITH PRESENT FACILITIES.