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*—*• Prat»anted with the compliments of the m\mi committee u mn DABBLING ITT COLLEGE BROADCASTING* 1201 Sixteenth Street Northwest Washington, D. C. By mischance not having received a copy of the program for this afternoon, I am at a loss to know the exact subject of my talk, also the subjects of the other talks to be given this session in order that X might know just how I should fit into the scheme of things. I trust that my comments will not however be a mere repetition of what every one else has said. Yet I suspect that most of us have had very similar experiences; the only object in reporting them being the hope that the weight of the sum total of them will someday be of sufficient pressure to bring about changes. For the past four years Western State Teachers College has had two fifteen- minute broadcasts per week, plus one half hour Sunday twice a month, over the local commercial station which has a service radius of about one hundred miles. The sta¬ tion has been a part of the Michigan network, and is to be a part of the NBC this year. My own experience with the broadcasts has been limited to the past two years and has been a responsibility added to my already existing full-time job. My most trying experiences have been with attitudes of skepticism or condescen¬ sion from four different angles. In mentioning these, 1 do so because these are the points at which we need most help. Let me hasten to add, however, that actually those were overshadowed by the response which we received from our listening audi¬ ence and by the cooperation and hard work of faculty members and outsiders asked to participate. Some.of the fifteen-minute roundtables broadcast ranwired, according to reports, from fifteen to twenty-five hours preparation on the part of the partic- ipants. in the first place, many faculty people even yet look upon radio programs as being primarily cheap and vulgar having about the same relation to the listening audience as the penny tabloids have to the newpaper reading public. A few tain for the radio such contempt that they will not even have receivingsets "address by Dr. William McKinley Robinson, Director , o?'their tional^Association 1 *? 6 fidvSational’Broadclsters, Iowa City, Iowa, September 10, 1935.