# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S724
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

724 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS
have to become a comm
ercial enterprise and seek t
re)
from the income which paid advertisements will Provide

most rete ommittee pleads with Synod to give these Matters
attention and to express itself on th 3
e b i
of the problem how to make the station financially secure Solution
n concluding this part of our r ; |
' eport we respectful]
pat Syne oxpress its thanks to all who have so generousiy
or with their funds and to all who have served ae
grams and encourage them to continue their s he
e future. nepoms iso ty
bro ere problem which has confronted Station KFUO
p ou to e fore by the tremendous progress made by televisinn
Ht een that in densely populated areas like St. Louis the
; in a large measure crowd out radio
: . as

frown it on the past. In order to be prepared for any omens i
of Seo Radio Committee, with the full knowledge and consent
na ynod’s Board of Directors, made an application for vy
channel, which has now been granted by the FCC. It is hand
essary to add that if KFUO introduces TV into its programs
a an i ‘ope *o finance itself only by becoming a commercial station
ho nge, however, involves many problems which will require
urther careful study before a final conclusion can be reached,

THE Rapio ComMirree or Station KFUOQ
Grorce V. Scmcx, Secretary

The foll ACTION :
e following two i i J
and adlootex resolutions were submitted by Committee 13
Resolution 7
broadcasting ‘. Radio Station Revo has for three decades been
saving Gospel in a striking and
through its daily broad. igri tatherea Gen
tor 28 years a4 casts and through Pilgrim Lutheran Church
_WHeREAs, This Station is still
station for the Lutheran Hour; and
Wuereas, Radio Station KFU' Oh
. »R has for some time -b -
ing under considerable financial difficulty; therefore ‘be ‘it ‘shor
fei epeved, To commend the personnel of Station KFUO for its
a Staten. as labors in carrying out the original purpose of
m proclaiming the Gospel in its truth, and i
. urity to
the people of the world, and the Board of Directors for ite interest
in this. worthy cause; and be it furthermore :
Resolved, That Synod en i
port Station KUO Nberaliy 8 the Fiscal Conference to sup-

functioning as the originating

finance itsely 4

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3 ough study of the situation; be it therefore
| Resolved, That we commend the Board of Directors for giving
this important matter serious and prayerful consideration, and that

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7265.

MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

™ Resolution 8 .

Bs''Wuereas, KFUO has received a TV grant from the Federal
mmunications Commission as a result of an application which
Mis filed with the consent of Synod’s Board of Directors; and

© Wuereas, KFUO-TV will render daily service to a potential
fidience of 2,000,000; and | .

*" Wuereas, KFUO-TV will render daily service to the entire
od in the following manner:

a) Serve as a laboratory or experimentation to find the most
EHective religious program formats;

" b) Film or duplicate select KFUO-TV programs and offer

“tem to our pastors, missionaries, and chaplains for use over TV
Wtations everywhere;

@ cc) Prepare select scripts of TV programs and offer them to
a our pastors, missionaries, and chaplains for use over TV stations

rs everywhere;

d) Feed live programs to TV networks with KFUO-TV as
producer and originating station;

e) Serve as a TV school for the students of our Seminary; and

Wuereas, The Board of Directors has before it a resolution of

e KFUO Radio Committee and of the Board of Control of Con-

# cordia Seminary requesting permission to accept the TV grant on
“a commercial basis; and

Wuereas, The Board of Directors is at present making a thor-

: we encourage it, if it sees fit after further deliberations, to accept
“and activate the grant on a commercial basis.

Report of the Family Worship Hour, Inc.

. (Memorial 1008) ; ;

The Family Worship Hour, a fifteen-minute radio program

of quiet meditation, music, and prayers, has been blessed abun-

- dantly by our heavenly Father. At the present writing the program

is heard on over one hundred stations in the United States and

Canada and is used in twelve Veterans Hospitals throughout the
country.

The program is produced at the National Broadcasting Com-.
pany’s Chicago studios and is sent to radio stations on. both
transcription disks and tapes. All of the production and mailing
expenses are covered by the budget of the Family Worship Hour,
and the program is given to the radio stations entirely without
charge. The speakers used on these programs are drawn from