NAEB Newsletter (June 1948)

Page scan 00025 from NAEB Newsletter

Record Details:

Title:
NAEB Newsletter
Date:
June 1948
Publisher:
National Association of Educational Broadcasters
Volume:
N-A-E-B news-letter (June 30, 1948)
Leaf #:
00025
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
{"Durr, Clifford J.","WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)","Hennock, Frieda B.","Abbot, Waldo","WMJ-TV (Radio Station : Detroit, MI)","Broadcast Measurement Bureau","Coy, Wayne",FCC,"Voice of America (Organization)","WMJ (Television Station : Detroit, Mich.)"}
Sponsor:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Coordinator:
Maryland Institute for Technlogy in the Humanities
Description:
The official newsletter of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) -- the predecessor to NPR, PBS, the CPB. Led primarily by faculty and staff at large Midwestern universities, the NAEB envisioned uses of broadcasting to improve society and educate both children and adults. The newsletter chronicles the NAEB's activities in advocating to the FCC for educational stations to obtain greater access to the public airwaves, coordinating the distribution of educational recordings, and planning the production of ambitious programs, such as 'People Under Communism' and 'The Jeffersonian Heritage,' which starred Claude Rains as Thomas Jefferson. This newsletter was digitized as part of the 'Unlocking the Airwaves' project, a collaboration among the University of Maryland, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Wisconsin Historical Society, with funding from the NEH. -- Stephanie Sapienza & Eric Hoyt, 2019.
Date Added:
October 27, 2022
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- 7 - distant areas of a general type of program service, particularly when such listeners have available to them programs from other stations closer to them* In reaching its conclusions in this_matter, the Federal Communications Commission is urged to consider the unique public service rendered by educa¬ tional and non-profit stations and the principle that the resources of Ameri¬ can educational institutions should be available to the citizens which sup¬ port them. The quality of program service should be the determining factor, rather than the technical and_arbitrary yardstick of protecting the coverage of clear channel stations to unreasonable limits* Upon this basis, there would be an improved broadcast service to the rural audiences, with programs designed to meet their special local needs. This proceeding could not achieve a more worthy goal. Respectfully Submitted, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS By __ Marcus Cohn Cohn and Marks 1420 New York Avenue N. W. Washington 5, D. C. Its Attorney January 9, 1948