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February 2002 CBI Newsletter

1) Finishing touches are being applied to the Call for Entry for the CBI Broadcasting Awards by coordinator Chuck Bailey at Marshall University and the CBI Board. You should receive a packet in the mail by the end of this month with categories, instructions and details. Meanwhile, be on the lookout at your stations for material that may qualify in any of our 13 television and 13 radio categories that have or will air between June 1, 2001 and May 31, 2002. This summer, up to four finalists will be announced in each category and the awards will be presented at the fall conference in Orlando, Florida October 31-November 3.

2) In the near future, CBI Board meeting minutes will be posted on the CBI web site in a "Members Only" to be developed. This area will also include other exclusives as well.

3) The CBI Board has been working with several companies to secure member discounts. CBI has worked with Communications Technologies, Inc. to offer MEMBERS a 10% discount on engineering services above the already discounted rates for NCE stations! We hope to have signed up several other businesses in the near future as a member benefit.

4) In future newsletters, we want to highlight a member station. If your station is a member of CBI and would like to be featured, please submit a 200 word summary of your operation and highlights to wkozires@brockport.edu. (Word attachment files preferred)

5) We are also looking to compile a list of show prep sites to put on the web site. These sites have material--unusual or newsbits--for station talent to spice up their broadcasts. A few to get the ball rolling is danoday.com (some free, some pay), triqi.com/radioprep.htm and newsbop.com. If you know of other free ones that have been worthwhile to your station talent, please send them along for inclusion.

6) From the NAB web site, the following are samples of scripts your station can use to help celebrate Black History Month. You can sell sponsorships of these or just run them as a PSA with your station name inserted in place of the sponsor:

February is Black History Month, and in recognition, (Sponsor) is proud to remember Benjamin Banneker. Born into a family of free blacks in Maryland, Banneker learned the rudiments of reading writing and arithmetic from his grandmother and a Quaker schoolmaster. Later he taught himself advanced mathematics and astronomy. He is best known for publishing an almanac based on his astronomical calculations. This Black History Month Salute is brought to you by (Sponsor).

February is Black History Month, and in recognition, (Sponsor) is proud to remember Rebecca Cole. Born in Philadelphia, Cole was the second black woman to graduate from medical school in 1867. She joined Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first white woman physician, in New York and taught hygiene and childcare to families in poor neighborhoods. This Black History Month salute is brought to you by (Sponsor).

February is Black History Month, and in recognition, (Sponsor) is proud to remember Dr. Daniel Hale Williams. Williams was born in Pennsylvania and attended medical school in Chicago, where he received his MD in 1883. He founded the Provident Hospital in Chicago in 1891, and he performed the first successful open heart surgery in 1893. This Black History Month salute is brought to you by (Sponsor).

February is Black History Month, and in recognition, (Sponsor) is proud to remember George Washington Carver. Born into slavery in Missouri, Carver later earned degrees from Iowa Agricultural College. The director of agricultural research at the Tuskegee Institute from 1896 until his death, Carver developed hundreds of applications for farm products important to the economy of the South. This Black History Month salute is brought to you by (Sponsor).

February is Black History Month, and in recognition, (Sponsor) is proud to remember Dr. Charles Richard Drew. Born in Washington, DC, Drew earned advanced degrees in medicine and surgery from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, in 1933 and from Columbia University in 1940. He is particularly noted for his research in blood plasma and for setting up the first blood bank. This Black History Month salute is brought to you by (Sponsor).

February is Black History Month, and in recognition, (Sponsor) is proud to remember Thomas L. Jennings. A tailor in New York City, Jennings is credited with being the first African American to hold a U.S. patent. The patent, which was issued in 1821, was for a dry-cleaning process. This Black History Month salute is brought to you by (Sponsor).

February is Black History Month, and in recognition, (Sponsor) is proud to remember Benjamin Bradley. A slave, Bradley was employed at a printing office and later at the Annapolis Naval Academy, where he helped set up scientific experiments. In the 1840s he developed a steam engine for a war ship. Unable to patent his work, he sold it and with the proceeds purchased his freedom. This Black History Month salute is brought to you by (Sponsor).

February is Black History Month, and in recognition, (Sponsor) is proud to remember Lewis Howard Latimer. Born in Chelsea, MA, Latimer learned mechanical drawing while working for a Boston patent attorney. He later invented an electric lamp and a carbon filament for light bulbs. Latimer was the only African-American member of Thomas Edison’s engineering laboratory. This Black History Month salute is brought to you by (Sponsor).

February is Black History Month, and in recognition, (Sponsor) is proud to remember Granville T. Woods. Woods was born in Columbus, Ohio, and later settled in Cincinnati. Largely self-educated, he was awarded more than 60 patents. One of his most important inventions was a telegraph that allowed moving trains to communicate with other trains and train stations, thus improving railway efficiency and safety. This Black History Month salute is brought to you by (Sponsor).

February is Black History Month, and in recognition, (Sponsor) is proud to remember Garrett Augustus Morgan. Born in Kentucky, Morgan invented a gas mask in 1914 that was used to protect soldiers from chlorine fumes during World War I. Morgan also received a patent in 1923 for a traffic signal that featured automated STOP and GO signs. Morgan’s invention was the forerunner of today’s traffic lights. This Black History Month salute is brought to you by (Sponsor).

February is Black History Month, and in recognition, (Sponsor) is proud to remember the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. One of the first black units to join the Union forces in the Civil War, the 54th had the eyes of the nation upon it. The company, which was largely composed of freed black slaves from various northern states, earned its fame in the July 18, 1863, battle at Battery Wagner. It was assigned the challenge of leading the assault on this Confederate fort, which was located on an island near Charleston, South Carolina. This Black History Month salute is brought to you by (Sponsor).

Warren Kozireski
Chair-CBI