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PROGRAM DIRECTOR
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October 25, 1937.

Dr. F. C. Allen, Head,
Dept. of Physical Education,
University of Kansas.

Dear Dr. Allen:

Following her telephone conversation with you, or with
your secretary, last week, concerning the change in hour for the Thursday
evening broadcasts of the Department of Physical Education, Miss Seaman
requested that I explain to you more fully the reasons why we request
this change. I planned to get in touch with you personally before the
end of the week, but your schedule seems to be about as crowded as mine
and, so far, I have failed to make connections. So I am offering the
explanation by letter and will be glad to talk this over with you per-
sonally at any time at your convenience.

This evening schedule on Thursday is not a part of our
time allotment in the time-sharing agreement between KFKU and WREN. When
it came to renewing our time-sharing agreement last summer, Mr. Smith
was unable to give us 4 regular period during the week starting earlier
than 10:15. However, he did agree to arrange for an earlier period for
us after his schedules had been made up following the change from Day-
light Savings Time at the end of September.

When we started broadcasting this fall, we rejected the
period which he first offered us and he finally allowed us time from 9:00
to 9:30 on Thursday evenings, with the understanding that we might be
asked to change to a slightly later period if he ran into any difficulty
with the National Broadcasting Company on account of this assignment.
His hesitancy there is due to the fact that N.B.C. has a definite con-
tract or claim on the time of its affiliated stations each evening up
to 10:00 or 10:15. It develops now that the National Broadcasting Com-
pany is resuming its feature educational program, “America's Town Meet-
ing of the Air”, starting the first Thursday night in November, and
using the period from 9:00 to 9:30 Central Standard Time. Mr. Smith
feels that he should carry this program if at all possible, both in or-
der to keep faith with N.B.C. and because a very large group of listeners
in this area are interested in following that particular program.

In spite of the fact that changing our program a half-hour
later on Thursday evening may prove a little more inconvenient for some
of those who are asked to participate, I think that this arrangement
places us in @ very advantageous position. As you know, the program
®America's Town Meeting of the Air” is a high class educational program,

not sponsored, and attracts just the kind of an audience that should be