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NAEB NEWS LETTER.•.*MARCH l f 1940...Pag© 3 "The new system, he continued, ’may revolutionise educational broad¬ casting*. He said the two-hour Monday-through-Friday programs, starting at noon, would be divided into thirty-minute broadcasts directly to the schools of the county, fifteen minutes of news, fifteen minutes of agriculture, fifteen minutes of a program to be called ’’The Lee County Family”, and forty-five minutes rebroadcast from the university. ’’The period from noon to 1 o’clock will bo devoted to adult interests, the remaining period intended for the county schools, but will be patterned to appeal to adults as well. Programs will be of a civic, educational, agricultural and entertaining nature. "The station will operate on 100 watts power, unlimited time. ’’The university plans to equip between fifty and sixty mountain schools in Lee County with receivers. It will retain ownership of the equipment, and will supervise the operation through the Lee County Board of Education. The school board, for its part, will pay operating expenses, including the salary of a supervisor, who will promote the use of the service by communities and schools adjacent to the area. "In 1933 the University of Kentucky established a system of remote listening centers where people could hear educational radio programs of standard broadcast stations. On the basis of results, the university feels that there is need for establishment of a system by which localized education and information, both for school children and adults, should be provided for in each of the mountain communities. "This makes the third institution which has taken advantage of the twenty-five-amplitude modulated channels set aside for non-commercial educational broadcast purposes. The others availing themselves of these frequencies are WBOE, operated by the Cleveland Board of Education, and WNYE, by the New York City Board of Education? MAC GREGOR EDUCATIONAL TRANSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE C 0 P. MacGregor, well-known West Coast radio producer, has announced that he is offering schools and colleges 130 of his finest . recorded educational features. Thes© transcriptions have been selected by Dr. Cline M. Koon from the Ma&Gregor library of more than 5,000 programs. Dr. Koon is a nationally known authority in education and formerly was Senior Specialist in Radio and Visual Education in the United States Office of Education. A special rate will be made to the educational stations. Watch for it in the March 15th News Letter. In the meantime, if you haven’t seen the 1940 Catalogue of MacGregor Educational Transcriptions, we’d suggest you write for it. Address: 729 South Western Avenue, Hollywood, Calif. RADIO TRAINING AT FLORIDA The University of Florida has just issued a bulletin of information on Radio Broadcasting Training. Among the professional courses in radio broadcasting available to the Florida students are Radio