NBC Transmitter (Jan-Nov 1945)

2 NBC Transmitter International Education Assembly Meets In New York to Discuss Broadcasting VOL. 10 MAY, 1945 No. 7 NBC Transmitter Published Monthly by the National Broadcasting Company RCA Building, Radio City, N. } . CREDO FOR PEACE “We think you are entitled to as faithful a joh of reporting this peace conference as you had and are having of the war.” Thus spoke William F. Brooks, NBC director of news and special events, in a recent network broadcast outlining NBC’s coverage of the United Nations Security Conference at San Francisco. “We do not believe, ” he continued, “this is a time to exaggerate honest differences among peaceloving nations which are making a sincere effort to organize some svstem of Avorld security that Avill endure. We do not propose to make NBC a sounding hoard for any special pleading.” As this issue of The Transmitter went to press the conference was well under way. NBC broadcasts from the radio station built almost within sound of the delegates’ voices in the Veterans Memorial Building were living up to Brooks’ credo in every way. A detailed account of NBC coverage of the historic event — together with photographs — will appear in the next issue of The rransmitter. RADIO’S A.M. GAIN In signing Fred Waring and his renowned Pennsylvanians for a new Monday through Friday morning network series beginning .lime 4, NBC is proving that — insofar as daytime broadcasting is concerned — there still can he “something new under the sun.” As Clarence L. Menser, NBC vice-president in charge of programs, puts it, NBC is “indeed juoud to he alile to bring to our morning listeners the line music of the Waring organization. This step is in line with our constant effort to ]>resent the best in radio to our morning listeners and to make davtime listening more enjoyahle.”’ This ])ione(‘ring move reflects broadcasting’s recognition of its jnihlic service obligations right around tin* clock. NEW \ORK.— The International Education Assembly accepted an invitation of the NBC University of the Air to hold its meeting in New York City, Thursda) through VIonday, April 12-16, to discuss the role of radio and other educational agencies in the establishment and maintenance of world peace. Delegates from Australia, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, England, France, Greece, Iceland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Philippine Islands, Poland, Ehuguay and Venezuela held sessions in the NBC studios and at the Parkside Hotel to discuss national interchange of scientific and cultural achievements, particularly through the medium of radio and television. Discussions and special forums on radio and television in relation to the furtherance of education were participated in by educational leaders as: Dr. James Rowland Angell, NBC public service counselor and president emeritus of Yale Ehiiversity; Dr. Chih Meng, director of the China Institute: Charles Seeger, chief of the music division. Pan American Enion; Bryn J. Hovde, chief of the division of cultural cooperation. State Department, and Joy KOMO-ITE IN ACTION Colonel Donald G. Graham, Deputy Ghiei of Staff. Administration Headtpiarters, 3rd Air Division I part o f General Doolittle’s oth Air Force) is on leave from bis desk at KOMO, Seattle, Washington. Colonel Graham is vice-president of Fisher's Blend Stations, Inc., oiiiiers of KOMO. Elmer Morgan, editor. Journal of NEA. A special forum was held on music in NBC studio 8-G under the chairmanship of Gilbert Chase, supervisor of music for the NBC University of the Air, ivith Dr. Meng; Seeger; Paul Nettl, Westminster Choir School; Henry Cowell, senior program editor, radio program bureau of the OWl ; and Fred Bate, manager of NBC international division, as participants. Education in liberated countries was discussed by David Friedman, Netherlands Information Bureau; Mrs. Aase Gruda Skaard, of Norway; Dr. Tadeusz Vlitana, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences; Francoise Dony, Belgium; Solomon V. Arnaldo, Philippines; Charlisos Lagoudakis, Greece; Antonin J. Obrdlik, Czechoslovakia; and representatives from France, Luxembourg, Panama. The theme of the April 15 sessions was “International Exchange by Radio.” Speakers on the panel were Richard S. Lambert, of CBC; Evelyn Gibbs, of BBC; Dr. Robert Valour, director of the French Press and Information Service and chairman of the board of directors of the United Nations’ Information Office; T. \. Penn, deputy director of the Chinese Broadcasting Administration; and Sterling Fisher, director of the NBC University of the Air. Sunday afternoon, immediately preceding NBC’s Armv Hour liroadcast. delegates attended a studio forum on “Special War Broadcasts.” led by Dwight Herrick, manager of NBC public service department. Participants were Lieutenant Hazel Kenvon Markel. Bureau of Public Relations. Navv Department; LieutenantColonel John Harris. Bureau of Public Relations. W ar Department; John Rennie. British Information Serxice; and Kenneth Bartlett, of S\ racuse I niversity. The entire television broadcast o\er WNB'r was dedicated to the assemhh . and delegates attended the special show which included a televised forum, with Sterling Fisher. Mrs. Skaard. William G. Carr, chairman of the IE A. as participants: the comj)lete first act of Robert Sherwood’s “Abe Lincoln in Illinois,” a South American liaxcloguc. and dance mmdicrs.