# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S542
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

542 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

been set aside for emergencies. The Radio Committee hag
studied the problem and has come to the conclusion i
three procedures will have to be adopted to meet the
financial crisis: (1) Synod will either have to allot a larg
priation to KFUO or underwrite its deficit at the en
fiscal year; (2) Synod will have to take over the station and:
all responsibility for the cost of its operation; (3) the stat
have to become a commercial enterprise and seek. to fing
from the income which paid advertisements will provide.

The Radio Committee pleads with Synod to give th
most careful attention and to express itself on the. best
of the problem how to make the station financially secur

In concluding this part of our report we respectfully:
that Synod express its thanks to all who have so gen v1:
ported KFUO with their funds and to all who have servef
programs and encourage them to continue their supp :
the future.

Another problem which has confronted Station..K
brought to the fore by the tremendous progress made by.t
It seems certain that in densely populated areas like StL
new invention will in a large measure crowd out radio a
known it in the past. In order to be prepared for any
the KFUO Radio Committee, with the full knowledge a
of Synod’s Board of Directors, made an application {
channel, which has now been granted by the FCC. It
necessary to add that if KFUO introduces TV into its pre
it can hope to finance itself only by becoming a commerc i
This change, however, involves many problems which
further careful study before a final conclusion can be reac

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