NBC Transmitter (Jan-Nov 1945)

4 NBC Transmitter RADIO IN THE CLASSROOM WWJ, Detroit, and KYW, Philadelphia, Offer Series in Conjunction With Educational Boards DETROIT.— “There are no radio shows just for us,” Detroit high sclioolers have complained, so WWJ is meeting that challenge by setting up two half-hour audience shows designed for teen-age participation and listening, and is cooperating with the radio division of the Detroit Board of Education to broadcast a third audience j)rogram for the grade schools. “Fanfare.” 1:15 p.m. Saturdays, is Paul Leash music as the hobby soxers love it, sprinkled with expert football predictions on college games, and frosted by a special how to a Detroit “high school of the week.” Students from the honored school are in the audience, and they particij)ate with their own school yells and songs, and also take j)art in a quick football quiz for tickets to the Detroit Lions football games. “Scholar Dollars.” 7 p.m. Saturdays, is a brainstorming quiz show for high school seniors. Students from eight public and parochial schools compete each week before a high school audience. A “scholar dollar” goes to each pupil who answers his questions correctly, and each Saturday night’s winner will compete at the end of the series for the grand prize, a four-year scholarship to either Wavne Liniversity or the University of Detroit. “Storyland,” 1:1.5 p.m. Mondays, is written, produced, and acted by students of the radio division of the Detroit public schools, with the cooperation of the WWJ production staff. It is an audience show of children’s classics brought to life as a radio class project. Program is beamed not only to general public, but is carried to the elementary schools where children listen as part of their dailv class routine. PHILADELPHIA.— In keeping with its deep interest in progressive educational and civic movements, KYW has resumed its six different programs devoted to the public, parochial and private schools in the Philadelphia area. A new departure marked the opening of the series when “Our Public Schools” returned to the air. Educational plays, written by teen-age students, were broad cast over the Phdailelphia Westinghouse station as the first two programs. This new series opened with “Better Than Riches,” written by 17-year-old Doris Friedman, a student at the Kensington High School for Girls. Her script culminated from a course in the Radio Workshop conducted during the Summer at KYW in cooperation with the Board of Education. It was judged of such outstanding value as to merit broadcast on the 50,0()0-watt station. Similar distinction went to “Moonshine,” the play written by Joan Krantman. 1.5-year-old student at Overbrook High School, who, too, completed her script while taking the course in the Summer Radio Workshop. “Moonshine” was broadcast as the second prelude to “Our Public Schools” series. The entire casts of the plays were selected from Workshop classmates of the writers. Among those who placed the stamp of high ])raise on the two scripts were: Gordon Hawkins, program and educa CHICAGO. Albert Crews, an NBC production director in Chicago, has been granted a sevenmonth leave of absence to establish a radio department at the United States Armed Forces Institute in Biarritz, France. Crews, who left this country the latter part of August, has been commissioned a major. In addition to establishing a curriculum of radio courses for the new GI university, he will help with the programming of the Armed Forces Radio Service station at Biarritz. The production director has been associated with NBC since 1943 when he resigned as head of the department of radio in the school of speech at Northwestern University. He previously was managing editor of The Hammond (In tional director of Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc.; Mrs. Ruth Weir Miller, Ruth Doerr and Warren Kay, radio assistants of the Board of Education, and William C. Galleher, KYW educational director, and his assistant Alan Williams. “Know Your Schools,” a roundtable discussion on current topics by pupils of suburban high schools, was launched on October 8. The Catholic schools of Philadelphia area conduct their own weekly program on Tuesdays. “Junior Town Meeting of the Air” returned on October 18. This program originates from a different high school each week and is heard in the assemblies of the schools. Prominent educators and civic leaders act as moderators. The period on Friday, known as “Once Upon a Time,” is turned over to the University of Pennsylvania Museum for a series of dramatized stories. “Let’s Visit the Zoo,” a part of the educational series, is heard Saturdays. diana) Telegram, owner of The Albany (Indiana) Chronicle and teacher of journalism at the Hammond High .School. He also has served as co-director of the NBC-Northwestern University Summer Radio Institute which has been widely acclaimed as a radio training school and recently completed its fourth successful term. While associated with Northwestern, Crews directed the Radio Playhouse there and wrote several full-length stage plays and numerous radio dramatic programs. The entire first printing of his book, “Radio Production Directing,” was reserved for Army use and he is working on two other radio books. SALT LAKE CITY. E. J. Drucker, KDYL’s top salesman for many years, has been named director of retail sales by ,S. S. Fox, president and general manager of the station. Drucker who is affectionately known to his business associates as “Manny,” joined the station in 1934. GI Radio Course Abroad Headed by Cbicago NBC-ite Albert Crews