# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1935_S311
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. 1935. 299

Report on Station KFUO..
; (Memorial 701.) ,
Station KFUO is the property of the Missouri Synod. The per-
sonnel of the KFUO Radio Committee, which consists of representa-
tives of the Board of Control of Concordia Seminary, into whose
hands Synod placed the control of the station, and of representa-
tives of the Lutheran Laymen’s League, which rebuilt and enlarged
the station in 1927 and assumed its maintenance, is as follows:.
Messrs. Henry L. Schulz, chairman; Emil H. Hartmann, treasurer ;
J. H..Kuechenmeister, Theodore Maetten; B. A; Schieferdecker ; .
L. F..Volkman; Prof. John H. OC. Fritz, D.D.; Prof. Walter A.
Maier, Ph. D.; the Rev. Louis J. Sieck. On Monday, September 26,
1932, Mr A. G. Brauer, one of the first members of the KFUO Radio-
Committee, entered the Church Triumphant. Mr. Brauer was a faith-
ful member of our committee and rendered valued services. We all
regarded his death as a great loss. oy at
Our equipment is kept in good condition by our operator,“ Carl
H. Meyer. No new large apparatus was purchased during the past
three years. Our frequency and power have remained the: same,
namely, 550 kilocycles, 1,000 watts day, 500 watts night. Ata hearing
before the Federal Communications Commission at Washington;
D. C., last October, we petitioned the commission to assign the .
640 frequency to us in place of the 550 frequency, our purpose being :
to endeavor to increase our service area and to procure better week-
day evening hours. At this writing (March 15) the commission has
not yet rendered its decision. ‘
-. Soon after the last Delegate Synod the Lutheran Laymen’s
League informed us that it could no longer pay the larger portion
of our running expenses, and it reduced its subsidy for 1933 from ~
$9,500 to $2,000; for 1934 from $2,000 to $1,000. The subsidy for
1935 is the same as for 1934. Through the splendid cooperation of
the congregations of a few synodical Districts within the service area -
of KFUO, of individual listeners-in, of the St. Louis Lutheran Pub-
licity Organization, and of Pilgrim Church, which broadcasts four |
and a half hours over KFUO every Sunday morning, ‘we were able, '
by the grace of God, to weather the storm. We are very grateful
to.the many groups and individuals who have given KFUO their |
moral and financial support. Our expenditures in 1934 were $12,878.31. »
Our budget for 1935 is $11,269. co
“During the week of December 9, 1934, KFUO ‘successfully éele-"
brated its tenth anniversary in a public service at the Municipal’
Auditorium and in a: number of studio programs, one of which was
a special DX: (distance). program. on December 15, from midnight