The audio-visual handbook (1942)

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140 The Audio-Visual Handbook tary research, reading, and study which could be obtained in no other way. For many years numerous universities and colleges have maintained Photo Courtesy RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc. Radio Guild Production Goes on the Air standard band broadcasting facilities to serve the states or areas in which the institutions are located. Many of these stations have provided excellent educational programs both for the objective training of persons enrolled in extension courses and for the guidance of the public engaged in agriculture, industry, recreation, etc. These stations have been used also to disseminate information concerning the normal and extra-curricular activities of schools and colleges. Programs produced by students have provided excellent training in music, speech, and dramatics. The Federal Communications Commission in 1938 assigned certain ultra high frequency bands to the exclusive use of educational radio broadcasting stations. The Board of Education of the Cleveland Public Schools was the first to utilize this new frequency assignment with the installation of a radio station to serve schools exclusively. This was an experimental program which met with such outstanding success that numerous other city and state systems made plans to install similar broadcasting facilities. In July 1940, the Federal Communications Commission modified its rules governing educational