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(7) Centennial Series
PROCEEDINGS 135
Sixteen 15-minute transcribed Centennial programs featuring every
phase of denominational life and some major Baptist beliefs, were broadcast
over 58 stations throughout our Convention territory during our
Centennial Year of 1945.
During the year 1945, a total of 2147 programs from our transcription
library were broadcast throughout the territory of the Southern Baptist Convention.
During the first quarter of 1946 an average of 39 stations were
broadcasting at least one transcribed program from our library every week.
This was in addition to the Baptist Hour series on a network of thirty-seven
stations during this period.
2. VETERAN HOSPITALS—TRANSCRIBED DEVOTIONALS
The Radio Committee is launching a new service by the medium of transcribed
programs in connection with Government and Veteran Hospitals
throughout the nation. In cooperation with other members of the Southern
Religious Radio Conference, we shall offer a daily 15-minute transcribed devotional
program of message and music for use over public address systems in
Government and Veteran Hospitals throughout the nation. This service should
be in operation by July 1 of this year or earlier. The title of the series will
be, "Upstairs Incorporated," and the objective will be.to lead our hospitalized
veterans of World War II and of World War I to look up to our Heavenly
Father through Christ in these devotional moments.
It should be said in this connection that the Southern Religious Radio Conference
already has the green light from Chiefs of Chaplains of the Navy and
Army and of the Veterans Administration respectively to proceed with offering
these programs to the hospitals for use. Dr. Alfred Carpenter, who has
been the liaison officer between the military and Southern Baptists during the
War predicts that the opportunity of this service will tax the financial capacity
of Southern Baptists and other members of the Southern Religious Radio
Conference.
It should also be stated in this connection that the Baptist programs in such
effort will present Baptist pastors and laymen and we have the same privilege
of maintaining our identity in presenting the gospel truth as we know it which
we have in our regular Baptist Hour programs.
V. COOPERATION WITH OTHER SOUTHERN
BAPTIST CONVENTION AGENCIES
1. POLICY
In its 1944 session in Atlanta, the Southern Baptist Convention instructed
the Radio Committee to: "Thoroughly study the radio needs of the entire Convention,
including the various agencies, boards and institutions of the Convention
and, in cooperation with said agencies, boards and institutions, to provide
the needed equipment and programs to meet their needs when feasible and in
keeping with the bu'dget of the Radio Committee. The above service is to be
rendered in addition to the regular broadcasting of the Baotist Hour and in
addition to the committee's regular transcription programs."
There are two ample reasons for the Southern Baptist Convention following
this policy of the regular broadcasting by the agencies of the Convention
being cleared through the Radio Committee, as follows:
a. The Radio Committee is seeking to effect all broadcasting possible over
all the stations in the entire Southern Baptist Convention territory. Then while
the Radio Committee is pressing a program of broadcasting if other agencies
should, at the same time, be approaching the same stations seeking time for
broadcasting, station management would become confused. Undoubtedly such
procedure would defeat Southern Baptist effort in the field of radio.
b. The Radio Committee is seeking to know how to produce and present
religious programs of the highest quality and, if Southern Baptists will use this
agency that gives all of its time and thought and experience to the production
and presentation of radio broadcasting, it is possible to do a better job in the
field of radio.