# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S333
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Miscellaneous Matters - 833

of Synod, will entail an expenditure of approximately $75,000 for
a new transmitter, new towers, and other equipment, enlarged
office personnel, increased studio and office space and facilities, etc.

Programs. — Pending the decision of the court, we are now
already developing and improving our station with many in-
teresting talks by prominent civic leaders, with high-class-music
programs by schools of music and conservatories, with more vocal
and instrumental groups, and with other program refinements.
Our DX programs, which cover almost the entire country, have
proved very popular, and we are studying the question of a short-
wave station for KFUO in order to send the Gospel to the remotest
corners of the globe. At the last Delegate Synod our Committee
petitioned Synod to elect a Synodical Radio Committee for the
purpose of inaugurating a nation-wide broadcast and of promoting
the preaching of the Gospel by means of the radio in general. In
view of the L. L. L.’s plans to revive the Lutheran Hour, Synod as
such refrained, for the time being, from making provisions for a
national broadcast to be conducted under its direct auspices and
control. KFUO regards it as a distinct privilege to be the orig-
inating station of the Lutheran Hour. The work of KFUO and of
the Lutheran Hour is bringing countless souls to the knowledge of
their Savior. .

Synodical Radio Committee.— As the Synodical Radio Com-
mittee, the KFUO Committee successfully sponsors a National
Lutheran Radio Week in the fall of the year, the purpose of which
is to encourage Lutheran broadcasts in every locality where a
radio station is available, daily or as often as possible during
National Lutheran Radio Week or, preferably, throughout the
year. The broadcasting pastors are urged to make the most of
N.L.R.W. and to help other brethren in the neighboring cities
to get on the air; pastors who have discontinued their broadcasts
are requested to resume them if at all possible. The Committee
also sponsors, through the cooperation of the Rev. G. Christian
Barth of Cincinnati, O., and through the courtesy of WLW, an
annual globe-encircling DX program, on which reports have been
received from places as far as Alaska, Hawaii, and Finland; it
publishes The Announcer, from time to time, to serve as a con-
necting link between local Lutheran broadcasts in all parts of the
world; it helps to arrange regular radio conferences in connection
with the various District synodical conferences; it is instrumental
in organizing radio committees in the various synodical Districts;
through the cooperation of the American Lutheran Publicity
Bureau, Lutheran pastors have occupied a few morning devotional
programs over the National Broadcasting Company and the Colum-
bia Broadcasting System. During the coming synodical convention