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BRIEF REPORT TO THE W. K. KEILOGG FOUNDATION from the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS As one of the oldest professional organizations in America, started in 1924, the NAEB existed for many years as an organization in which the representatives of some twenty or thirty institutions owning and operating college stations met more or less informally together once or twice a year, whenever other conferences saw them assembled. It was not a particularly strong or confident group since in virtually every bout in which real (usually commercial) competition was encountered, educa¬ tional broadcasting came out second best. The number of educational stations had been virtually decimated, being reduced from 200 to 20, between the early 1920*s and the early 1940*s. Most members of the small organization realized that this situation was due largely to lack of genuine organization, lack of adequate budgets, lack of status within their own organizations, (which frequently meant lack of respect for the medium of radio), and lack of representation at the national and higher educational levels. The possibility of opening up new space in the spectrum, as FM was being con¬ sidered, along with the above conditions, led to increasingly serious discussions of a recognized and reserved place in the American educational picture, and specifically in the wireless spectrum, for educational broadcasting. This, it was thought, would prevent a repetition of the decimation mentioned above, in which education, in many areas and respects the pioneer in radio in America, lost some of the finest station channels in the United States to commercial broadcasters. During the 1940*s modest efforts were made by NAEB leadership to begin to hold conferences with some of the outstanding educational planners in the nation. The NAEB*s confidence in its mission and task was strengthened by several factors: l) its success and leadership in rallying support to secure specific allocations in the FM broadcast spectrum for educational use exclusively; 2) the friendliness and understanding with which its proposals and thoughts were met in the FCC as then constituted; and 3) the apparent favor with which certain Foundations looked upon its plans and proposals. In the late 1940*3 funds were secured for the first of what was to be a series of three Allerton House conferences, at which broadcasters, subject matter specialists, and social scientists particularly met together for two-week periods, long enough to begin to hammer out blueprints for the future. Out of these meetings came a dream...but also broad outlines for what, it now became obvious, would require considerably larger resources than the NAEB had at its disposal, plus a permanent staff and office. Plans were drawn up which could be presented as requests for Foundation support.