NAEB Newsletter (Apr 1948)

RADIO AND EDUCATION PARTNERS. SAYS MILLER Radio and education have a bright joint future, Justin Miller, president of the NAB commercial trade organization, told the third annual Georgia Radio Institute this week at Athens, Broadcasting, he said, is an expanding industry which will in size rival automobile manufacturing within a decade. But he warned that it will "bring difficulties and headaches as well as wonderful new programs* 1 . Train¬ ing of personnel to guide the industry is a vital problem, he added . Identity of Interests Hiller said broadcasters and educators have not always seen that their interests are common. 11 On the one said/ 1 he said, n we have seen opposition by a fe w broa d¬ casters to the licensing of educational sta t ions and to state-supported educati onal broadcasting, and on the other side we have seen the incongruity of a few educators —trying to tear down freedom of speech over the radio and urging Government con¬ trols for radio programmin g. H Miller expressed the hope that "as time goes by, both sides will see the identity of their interests in preserving all the freedom which makes broadcasting useful to both groups." Cause of Decreased Number of Educational Stations The NAB president attributed the decline in the number of educational stations in the 1930*5 to poor programming, the depression, and poor management, but added that competition by entertaining programs was a greater contributing factor . "A university professor, lecturing successfully, in the &64 vocabulary of his professional mystery, to a carefully selected group of young intellectual giants. sometimes turned out to be a very poor attraction on the radio— it v;as too easy to tune out t he professor and tune in the comedian," Judge Hiller told t he insti ¬ t ute a udience. * 7 -*- The National Association of Educational Broadcasters is on record as approving the pr inciple of commercial radi o as it operates in the American system and of oppos ¬ ing government ownership of radio . However, N-A-E-B has insisted on the necessity of furnishing special programs for special audiences and enriching the U.S. radio diet, which effectively serves only two-thirds of U.S, listeners, by producing special programs for the other one-third who are not now regularly served by most U.S. radio programming. _____~~___ FOUR H O URS CP MUSIC (OPERA, BALLET. JA?Z) ON NET.' YORK EDUCATIONAL STATION Music lovers will be able to enjoy four hours of uninterrupted music on the Munici¬ pal Broadcasting System (NAEB member station WNYC), Saturday afternoons, beginning April 17, when three new music series will have their premieres 0 . Great Operas, with Thomas H. Cowan as commentator? Ballet Time, presenting music of the classical and contemporary ballet, and Jazz Jubilee, commemorating a half-century of jazz in New York City, currently observing its golden anniversary. " Great O peras", scheduled from 2;30 to 5:00 p . m. on Saturdays, will pre se nt ful l- length recorded operas, with guest appearances by well-known figures in the world of opera reminiscing with Thomas H, Cowan. _M r. Cowan also conducts the Monday night "Velvet and Gold" opera hour on the City Station (8;00-9:45 P.m. on WNYC and WNYC-FM) Ballet Time will be heard from 5;30-6;15 p.m. on Saturdays and Jazz Jubilee from 6;15-6^45 P.m. Master of c eremonies for Jazz Jubilee will be Jack Lazare, who also conducts the daily Disc Date on WNYC from 5s00 to $”55 P.m,