NAEB Newsletter (Sept-Oct 1952)

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10 KANSAS U. BEGINS FM BROADCASTING - .. .. The University of Kansas has gotten into FM radio.. Its new station,, KANU, began regular broadcasting Sept. 10, R. Edwin Browne., director of radio, announced recently. KANU operates at 91.5 megacycles on the FM dial, with a clear,signal receivable over a 70-mile radius from Lawrence. It broadcasts by means of a 10,000-watt transmitter and a 511 -foot tower. The station is a gift to the Kansas University School of Journalism by-John B. Harris and Sydney F. Harris, Hutchinson and Ottawa publishers, as a memorial to their uncle, Fred M. Harris, a former member of the state board of regents. For many years, Kansas University has owned and operated KFKU, an AM station, which splits time with WREN, Topeka. DULUT H FM STATION TO CARRY WISCONSIN PROGRAMS . WEBC-FM in Duluth, Minnesota, which was wrecked by a storm some months ago and has since been silent, is being rebuilt and will soon return to the air on a regular basis. The station has expressed an interest in rebroadcasting the Wisconsin School of the Air for children in Northern Minnesota, and will be given permission to do so. An FM sales campaign is being staged at present in Duluth-Superior and surrounding communities. . FAR MORE FM More than 40,000 classes in New York City grade schools and high schools will listen each week during this school year to the Board of Education's WNYE (FM) programs, according to the 1952-53 program bulletin. Rapid growth from 9,000 classes in the 1947-48 school year was attributed by school officials to the greater availability of FM radios in schools and to improved programming. POSITIONS WANTED TV and radio writer with 12 years of commercial radio experience seeks connection with university or other educational station. Experience with creation and wr±ting of all program and commercial types both in radio and TV. Executive experience: commercial production manager for TV station, continuity director in local and regional stations. Available immediately. Frank C. Hart, Box 93* Route #3 > Batavia, Ohio. Music Program Director, A.B. cum laude, 19^9* A.M. 1952, Harvard University, ass't. to A. V. Frankenstein, H.U. 1951 and 1952; married; will travel; wide musical expe¬ rience; for further information and references write: Victor Yellin, 653 Concord Ave., Cambridge 38 , Mass., Tel: TF. 6 -6095; New York address: 211 E. l4th St., New York 3 , N. Y., Tel: OR3-93^5- Former Director of Promotion for Broadcasting and Film Commission, National Council of Churches seeks position in educational radio. Has e^erience in audience promo¬ tion, radio, TV and TV films; also, programming, continuity-and dramatic -writing, teaching experience in radio and TV workshops. Master's degree from U. of Chicago. For more details write to: Miss Marjorie Hyer, 520 East 12th St., New York City, N. Y.