"Non-Commercial Educational Broadcast Being Developed Through The Use of 'FM'" (June 5, 1941)

-> band were set aside for non-commercial educational use. These channels arc 42,100; 42,300, 42,500; 42,700 and 42,900 kilocycles. This rearrangement of the high frequencies to make commercial I’M broad¬ cast service possible has a distinct advantage in that the close proximity of the non-commercial educational bands and the new FM commercial bands makes it possible to adapt standard EM receivers to receive both types of broadcast. In other words, the EM receivers now being marketed are capable of receiving non¬ profit educational as well as the regularly sponsored programs. Until that time only two educational bodies were making actual use of the high frequency bands long open to non-profit educational service employing amplitude modulation. They were WHYE, the Eoard of Education of the City of Hew York, and WB0E, the Cleveland City Board of Education. However, the University of Kentucky had received a construction permit for a system to bring educational program service to some 50 mountain schools, available to adults as well as students. The University of Kentucky, Station WBKY, now plans to substitute EM for the standard transmission. Subsequently, the Board of Education of the San Francisco Unified School District was authorized to use radio for instructional, administrative, super¬ visory and other functions through the medium of 13 studios in schools in that area, all connected with the central broadcast station KALW, by leased wires. Mere recently the Cleveland Board of Education, which servos more than 150 receivers in its municipal school system, received permission to change to FM. Detailed regulations regarding non- commercial educational stations arc contained in Sections 4.131 to 4.137* inclusive, of Port 4 of the Commission’s Rules and Regulations. This pamphlet, which is obtainable from the Superinton-