# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S534
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

534 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

creased during the next triennium. The Committee has-
reviewed the vast possibilities of the service which it m:;
our Church and believes that the sums suggested bela
represent a good investment. In order to make effective ,
possible for the Synodical Radio and Television Commj
has no other source of income, we request Synod to aiid
its budget for use by the Synodical Radio and Teleyj
mittee for 1954 the sum of $47,000; for 1955, $51,000; for 1956,
In these sums are included also the necessary funds for
of a full-time Synodical Radio and Television Director:

Tue Synopicat Rapio anp TELEVISION G
Gzorce V. Scutcx, Secretary

[1005]
Report of the Lutheran Television

Productions Committee

The entire history of the Lutheran Television. Pr
Committee and of the television program “This Is the
within the period of the current triennium. After th
of World War II, television came into being as an im
of the American scene. By 1950, 105 television statio
operation in 63 regions in the United States, and the g
the television industry was so rapid that the Federal C
cations Commission inaugurated the “freeze.” This, the
an opportunity during which those interested in the g
cation, and utilization of television within the United
consolidate their position. After the Milwaukee Conventio
Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod it became increasii
parent that television, a twentieth-century miracle,: wo
stitute a marvelous new medium for the proclama
Savior’s Gospel throughout this country. :

In a meeting at the close of 1950 the synodical Boa
tors created a committee known as the Board of Diré
vision Advisory Committee, to study the entire televisiot
and the possibilities that it might hold for The Luther
— Missouri Synod. This committee held its first meetin
uary 4, 1951, at Concordia Theological Seminary, under
manship of Dean Leonard C. Wuerffel. During the firs
of 1951 the Committee met regularly and investigated all
avenues of approach. On March 3 and 4, 1951, a large
was called at the Palmer House in Chicago, to which
representative leaders from within and beyond our Ch
invited to study all phases of the television question. -In