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PROCEEDINGS 137
VI. A NEW RADIO STUDIO
Production traffic in the regular radio studios is so heavy, and the studio
demands of the Radio Committee have .become so considerable that it has become
absolutely necessary for the Radio Committee to have a production studio
of its own where programs may be produced and rehearsals held without worry
and at times suitable for production personnel.
It is a fact that some of the transcribed programs produced by the Radio
Committee have had to originate in churches in the city of Atlanta, and it is
most difficult to produce a good program in a church that is so large and where
the organ, choir, and the whole setup, are not arranged for broadcasting.
This emergency of the Radio Committee was presented to the Executive
Committee of the Convention last fall and the money was appropriated for the
expense of the studio together with the equipment.
Except for delay in receiving equipment, due to strikes in electrical plants.
this studio would have been in operation not later than March first of this year!
It should be said in this connection that when all equipment is in, the Radio
Committee will be able to effect a substantial saving in connection with its
transcribed programs.
Under the leadership of Dr. L. D. Newton, the Druid Hills Baptist Church
of Atlanta has generously granted the Radio Committee free use of a building
on its property which is well adapted to radio studio purposes. This grant is
without cost. The Convention joins the Radio Committee in our expression of
appreciation to this great church and pastor for this courtesy.
VII. PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
In an effort to produce programs of superior quality, both for the Baptist
Hour network and by the method of transcription, and in order to relieve the
Director of some of the many details of the radio service which has grown to
rather large proportions, the Radio Committee has secured the services of Mr.
Warde Adams who has had 15 years experience in the production of radio programs.
Mr. Adams was a member of the First Baptist Church of Richmond,
Virginia, and comes to the committee highly recommended by the pastor and
' members of the First Baptist Church. Mr. Adams also stated that he has
felt the definite lead of the Lord to enter the field of religious broadcasting as
a service to his Lord and Master. He is recognized as one of the most capable
production men in the field of radio.
VIII. NATION-WIDE BROADCASTS
Increasingly, the national networks are dealing only with central agencies
which represent large numbers of denominational groups in connection with
nation-wide broadcasts. For example, National Broadcasting Co., clears all of
its broadcasting programs for Protestants and Baptists through the Federal
Council of Churches. It does not deal with any denominational groups. The
only consideration given to individual groups is the coming of Dr. Walter Van
Kirk to the Convention for its annual meeting and who makes a nation-wide
news report of the Convention, thus rendering a substantial service to Southern
Baptists, for which we are grateful.
The American Broadcasting Company has followed very closely the policy
of the National Broadcasting Company in allotting its religious time to organizations
which represent all Protestants and Baptists, giving no time to individual
denominational groups. In other words, A.B.C. clears all of its time for evangelical
broadcasting through the Federal Council of Churches, and Southern
Baptists 1 are not represented in the Federal Council of Churches. However, it
should be said in this connection that A.B.C. has sent their Dr. Bradford S.
Abernethy to the Convention on one or two occasions in order to cover the
Convention in a nation-wide news broadcast which was a real service to the
cause of Southern Baptists
In previous years the Mutual Broadcasting System, together with the Columbia
System, have on several occasions given 15-minute spots for a nationwide
broadcast in connection with the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention,
a Southern Baptist representative making the talk in each case. How-