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WHY THE EDUCATIONAL RADIO STATION? * Harold B. McCarty » Program Director, WHA, Wisconsin State Station President, National Association of Educational Broadcasters We have already had today two answers to the question partially expressed in the title of this talk, Why the Educa¬ tional Radio Station? In a sense, Mr. Frost gave a negative answer this morning in his ringing rebuke of educators for their failure to realize their opportunity and for the mistake they made in re¬ linquishing valuable broadcasting facilities. Then we have had a second answer, and I believe a loud affirmative one, this af¬ ternoon in this roll call of educational stations, reporting recent achievements of college and university broadcasting stations throughout the country. To much of what has been said about the failure of educators, I am inclined, in good old prayer-meeting style, to sit off in a corner and shout ’’Amen”. But when you indict the educators of America because a number of institutions failed to retain their radio transmitter licenses, something more needs to be said. It’s this: Those early stations were not all edu¬ cational stations. I repeat, those were not educational stations, in the sense of education which means the dissemination of know¬ ledge. Those licenses were, for the most part, requested by physicists and electrical engineers to permit experiment in the science of radio. Their aim was to discover scientific relations, not to disseminate information. They were interested in the technical aspects of this new instrument, not in its social use¬ fulness. They secured licenses to explore physical principles, not educational avenues. I say again, ( they were not truly educational stations. Let’s not lose sight of this distinction, for when those scores of colleges and universities, voluntarily or under some pressure, lost their licenses, they had not failed completely. Many of them had reached their original objective of scientific research. The shrinkage in numbers is chargeable, I believe, to the ’’experimental” rather than to the ’’broadcasting” period of college radio activity. And, instead of cries of ’’shame!” we might properly send up a couple salvos of applause for their success. *Talk given at the Annual Institute on Education by Radio Columbus, Ohio, May 3, 1937.