# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1306
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

828 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

budget in excess of $10,000 per month. The latest project involveg
the construction of an annex to the KFUO building in order to
provide desperately needed space. This was dedicated in October.
1948. Its cost, due to the increased price of materials and high
wages, exceeded the amount originally planned in the over-all
picture of the Station’s expansion program and amounted: to
$138,000. :

During the past triennium the Station has again sought to
carry out to the best of its ability its mission as a broadcasting
station in the service of our Church. Religious programs, care.
fully designed to meet the varying needs of the different types of
listeners, had a large place on the daily schedule of broadcasts. The
clergy of the St. Louis area and of some distance beyond it deserve
commendation for their readiness, in spite of other duties, to serve
frequently on these programs as speakers and lecturers, Among
the regularly scheduled religious broadcasts may be mentioned
the two Sunday morning services by Pilgrim Lutheran Church,
St. Louis, on the air now for over twenty consecutive years; the
morning devotions of the Seminary student body during the months
when the school is in session; and the programs of the Lutheran
Hour, for which KFUO has been the originating Station. The
musical heritage of our Church was likewise given a prominent
place in the daily programs. Ample evidence is available that under
God’s blessing the Station has been an effective missionary agency
and that it has reached with its messages of salvation into areas
which by any other means might be inaccessible.

By necessity secular programs also had to be featured, but
every effort was made to keep these on a high plane consistent
with the character of the Station. Particularly the rich musical
programs carried by the Station have attracted the attention of
many listeners who are not connected with our Church. Also
the fact that the Station’s programs are free of annoying com-
mercial announcements is appreciated by many non-Lutherans.

For some years, while limited to AM broadcasting, the Station
was obliged to go off the air one hour after sundown. But with
the addition of FM facilities it is now possible for KFUO to extend
its broadcasts over the entire day. Accordingly, the evening broad-
casts of the Station by means of FM have been extended until
midnight.

By appointment by the Board of Concordia Seminary, which
is responsible for the administration of the Station, the following
men are at present serving as the KFUO Radio Committee: Dr. J.
H. C. Fritz, chairman; Mr. Robert Niedner, vice-chairman; Mr. Paul
Weeke, treasurer; Dr. G. V. Schick, secretary; Mr. Theo. E.