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-4- they will be very glad to give us some time. The whole manner is one of granting us a favor, never for a second admitting to us that there is a federal check up on the types of their programs before a renewal is granted of their broadcasting license. Apparently they think that we are too stupid or too preoccupied to know anything of the regulations under which they work and unconscious of their pride in announcing following our broadcast that ’’this program was brought to the air as a 'VKZO contri¬ bution to public service." And I must admit that when faculty members are too con¬ descending about the whole matter, I remind them in much the same manner as the station management assumes with me, that our minutes on the air have great commer¬ cial value and since they are giving us the time so generously it behooves us to be very humble and grateful. To be sure, all of the more desirable hours have been taken by their commercial paying programs. We are given occasionally two choices of time, but usually there is no choice. We are assured that the time given us is subject to change at any time within a few hours notice, and that notwithstanding the fact that we mail out and otherwise distribute some five thousand printed programs for each twelve-week period. I dare say we give their station the most consistently wide distribution of advertising of anyone using it. They have never even so much as expressed the slightest gratitude for that fact, altho we have always given them copies of the program and occasionally a statement of their distribution. In all fairness to them I am glad to state that they have never shifted our time of program except between college terms. That statement of course does not cover the programs which have been cut off altogether with notice of only an hour or so because of a football or baseball game. There is nothing that I can say that would add one whit to the expression of indignation that all educational broadcasting directors experience because of those games. I merely join in the chorus of irritation. Another point which I must in all fairness make to the station management is that they have tried