Broadcast Education Association
BEA2002
Management & Sales Division
BEA2002 Call for Papers

The Management & Sales Division requests papers for presentation at the Broadcast Education Association's 2002 Annual Convention, April 5-8, in Las Vegas. Papers should deal with issues related to broadcast and cable management and/or sales, including such topics as programming, promotion, personnel, ownership, economics, and technology. Papers using qualitative as well as quantitative methods are welcome.

Both debut and open entry papers are encouraged. A debut paper is one where none of the authors has presented a paper or been a panelist at any previous BEA convention. First and second place winners in each category receive cash awards of $300 and $100 respectively from BEA. The Broadcast and Cable Financial Management Association provides partial funding for the open category award. The winner's checks should be available at the convention from the paper chair. The winning papers in both categories will be presented at the division's competitive paper session. Additionally, every effort will be made to include other quality papers in the BEA convention program.

Manuscripts may not be submitted simultaneously to other publications or paper competitions. Winners funded by the BCFM Association will be asked to provide an additional report version of the paper to the BCFM Journal to be considered for publication. The intent is to provide the BCFM Journal with non-academic style articles. The emphasis in these report versions is on relevance of the issues and findings to managers. The report format for the BCFM Journal also allows winners to submit a full-length academic version to a refereed journal. Upon receipt by BCFMA of report versions, prize checks will be distributed.

Referees of national scholarly stature will make blind evaluations of papers based on:
1. Identification of an important problem for study;
2. Application of a recognized or innovative research method;
3. Original and competent interpretation of data; and
4. Placement of findings within the context of scholarly theory

Only the cover page of each entry should contain the author(s) name and academic affiliation. Any paper submitted as a debut paper should be so noted on the cover sheet. If no such designation is made, the paper will automatically be considered an open entry submission. The cover page should contain the address and phone numbers of the author(s).

Authors are required to use APA style and include an abstract of 75-100 words. Four copies (with double-spaced typeface) of the papers must be RECEIVED by Friday, November 30 (postmark your 2-3 day packages at least by November 27th). Winners will be notified by February 4, 2001.

Address questions or submissions to:

Greg Newton
Paper Competition/Vice-Chair
College of Journalism & Mass Communication
University of Oklahoma
860 Van Vleet Oval
Norman, OK 73019
(405) 325-2710
(405) 325-7565 FAX
gnewton@ou.edu

Authors who wish to have their paper posted on the BEA web site must include the permission form (found at http://www.beaweb.org/bea2002/paperfrm.html) and a copy of the paper on a standard 3 ½" diskette in Microsoft Word or Rich Text format. The file can be in either PC or Macintosh format, but should be the only file contained on the diskette. The complete paper should be contained in one file containing the cover page, body, tables, references, etc.