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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Washington, D.C. (50863) GENERAL INFORMATION RELEASE June 5_, 1941 NON-COMMERCIAL EDUCATIONAL BROADCAST BEING DEVELOPED THROUGH THE USE OE "EM" -o- Applications by the Board of Education of the City of Chicago, the San Diego (Calif.) Unified School District and the University of Illinois to engage in non-commercial educational broadcast service is indicative of the value of EM in developing the five high frequency channels reserved by the Federal Communications Commission for non-profit educational use. Common interest in making the most of the new opportunity to use these facilities is evinced in the following letter to Dr. John W Studebaker, Com¬ missioner of Education, from Edwin H. Armstrong, prominent in the practical utilization of EM, which was read at the recent Twelfth Institute for Educa¬ tion by Radio: "I have been much gratified with the reports that are reaching me about the experiments with E.M. transmission con¬ ducted by the Cleveland Board of Education and I have been considering for some time vhatTuight be done to further en¬ courage other, similar, projects. "From time to time letters have come in from educa¬ tional institutions requesting information about royalty rates under my Frequency Modulation patents In the event that these institutions should decide to erect stations and construct transmitters themselves. . It has seemed to me that it might help the development of this new branch of radio if I should arrange to issue licenses, to those educational institutions which are interested in going ahead, at a nominal royalty of One Dollar. This Is to advise you that I am willing to do that. . "I am writing this letter, therefore, in order that you may, if you see fit, make whatever announcement would be most effective in reaching those of your Institutions that you feel could successfully carry on an educational program. This offer would, of course, apply only to stations whose purpose is educational and which do not obtain income from their broadcasting activities.