Office of Executive Secretary Urbana, Illinois October 15, 1939 FAVORABLE REPORT ~ FOR «7SUI The Federal Communications Commission has announced its Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions, (No, B-79), proposing to GRANT the application of W3UX, The State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, to increase power from 1 KW day and 500 watts night, to 1 KW night, 5KW day, unlimited time on 880 kc, move transmitter to a new local site, install new equipment, and employ a directive antenna both day and night. The Commission 9 s Proposed Conclusions, based upon its proposed findings are as follows? l 0 The operation of the applicant, as proposed, will not involve a substantial increase in interference to any existing station as now operating or as proposed in any pending application, while the granting thereof would enable the applicant to extend its service to a large additional population, 2, The detriment to the public resulting from depriving the relatively small number of persons of service from Stations WLS« WENR will be out-weighed by the benefits to the public resulting from the proposed extension of the service of WSUI, 3, The interests of Stations WLS-WENR will not be adversely affected by reason of electrical interference from the applicants station operating as proposed in the pending application,, 4 0 That upon consideration of the entire record the granting of the application would serve public interest, convenience and necessity, subject to proof of performance in accordance with Section 3,33(b) of the Rules Governing Standard Broadcast Stations and upon certain technical conditions. All parties will have opportunity to file exceptions within 20 days, and thereafter to request oral argument on the proposed report and exceptions, THIRD SCHOOL BROADCAST CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO Harold Kent, Director of the Radio Council of the Chicago Board of Education, has announced tentative plans for the Third School Broadcast Conference whioh will be held December 6, 7, and 8 in the Congress Hotel, Chicago, Included on the program is & luncheon meeting of NAEB, Better mark this down on your calendar and plan to'attend this meeting early in December, I think Harold has sent all of you a copy of the Conference program NAEB NEWS LETTER e „. 0 OCT. 15, 1939 PAGE 2 tout tn case he hasn* t, drop him a note and I am sure he will toe glad to forward one to you 0 THE ILLINOIS MARCH OF HEALTH The Illinois State Department of Public Health is releasing its third thirteen-week series of electrically transcribed fifteen- minute health dramas,, According to the information furnished us, the scripts have been written toy a professional writer, and produced with a trained cast of radio actors* ,f The series approaches drato or indelicate health topics obliquely, in a framework of action and suspense* {f THE WORLD WIDE LISTEN ER T ~ ~ “* The World Wide Broadcasting Corporation has expanded its printed material on programs presented over WRUL (formerly WIXaL). The October issue contains a number of interesting articles, including one toy Donald J. Grout on the understanding of music, one by John C 0 Scammell on Tristan and Isolde, as well as other excerpts from programs presented over the station* If you haven®t seen a copy, I suggest that you have a look at one. The public¬ ation sells for twenty cents per copy and goes to members of the Listeners* League* Twelve month membership is $2,00* WNYE CALL LETTERS FOR NSW YORK PITY The non-commercial educational broadcasting station of the New York City Board of Education about which Maurice Novik told most of us at the Ames convention, has been assigned the call letters w NYE by the Federal Communications Commission. The station will operate on 41,100 kilocycles under FOC rules of January 2? 1938* The station formerly had the call letters WCNY SEE RADIO AND EDUCATION IN BROADCASTING Broadcasting for October 15 has a number of interesting items on education and radio which are worth the review of anyone interested in education by radio* Scanned from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters Records at the Wisconsin Historical Society as part of "Unlocking the Airwaves: Revitalizing an Early Public and Educational Radio Collection." 'oiTu> c KTwe \\KWAVEs A collaboration among the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Communication Arts, and Wisconsin Historical Society. Supported by a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities I I T I—I MARYLAND INSTITUTE for I TECHNOLOGY in the HUMANITIES UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY WISCONSIN NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE Humanities views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication/collection do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.