NAEB Newsletter (Feb 1940)

Page scan 0006 from NAEB Newsletter

Record Details:

Title:
NAEB Newsletter
Date:
Feb 1940
Publisher:
National Association of Educational Broadcasters
Volume:
NAEB news letter (February 15, 1940)
Leaf #:
0006
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
{"Ebel, A. James",FCC}
Sponsor:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Coordinator:
Maryland Institute for Technlogy in the Humanities
Description:
The official newsletter of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) -- the predecessor to NPR, PBS, the CPB. Led primarily by faculty and staff at large Midwestern universities, the NAEB envisioned uses of broadcasting to improve society and educate both children and adults. The newsletter chronicles the NAEB's activities in advocating to the FCC for educational stations to obtain greater access to the public airwaves, coordinating the distribution of educational recordings, and planning the production of ambitious programs, such as 'People Under Communism' and 'The Jeffersonian Heritage,' which starred Claude Rains as Thomas Jefferson. This newsletter was digitized as part of the 'Unlocking the Airwaves' project, a collaboration among the University of Maryland, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Wisconsin Historical Society, with funding from the NEH. -- Stephanie Sapienza & Eric Hoyt, 2019.
Date Added:
October 27, 2022
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NAEB NEWS LETTER,...Feb, 15, 1940,...Page 7 "Statioless radio, as developed by Major Edwin H, Armstrong, is to be tested in Chicago by the Zenith Radio Corporation, to which the FCC has issued a station construction permit. The power is to be 1 kilowatt; the channel 42,800 kilocycles, "The program of research and experimentation which the applicant proposes is expected to obtain data, particularly on the merits of wide-band and narrow-band modulation, which will be helpful at the informal engineering hearing on aural broadcasting on high frequencies, to open before the Commission on Feb 28, in Washington, "To compare the merits of two systems of ultra-short wave broad¬ casting, * amplitude modulation® and ®radio frequency modulation 1 , the latter popularly called *staticless', the FCC has granted Finch Tele-communications, Inc,, of New York a permit to operate Station W2XWF on 42,18 megacycle©, "The 1,000-watt transmitter is nearing completion atop the Manufac¬ turers Trust Building at Columbus Circle*, Both aural and facsimile tests are planned, according to W, G, H, Finch, president of the organieation , K New York Times, Jan, 14, 1940,