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NAEB NEWS LETTER^_ Dec. 1, 1940. Page 5 available to people living in the more remote portions of eastern and south-eastern Kentucky, a plan was inaugurated during the spring of 1833 whereby the University would administer the equipping of such locations with radio sets, the operators of such Listening centers to see that they were tuned regularly to educational and other cultural programs of worth, and to encourage people to come in and listen. Funds for the purchase of the sets for such centers have been donated by public spirited organizations and individuals* There are thirty-eight Listening Centers at present. "As an experiment in testing the value of a closely controlled educational and cultural radio system in the Kentucky mountains, the University of Kentucky has established a 100 watt station V7BKY, to be located at Beattyvllle, and to be operated in close cooperation with the Lee County Board of Education. Each of the fifty-four schools in Lee County will be equipped with receivers. The University of Kentucky College of Education has carefully developed a thirty- minute program to be broadcast to Lee County schools each day of the week and designed to supplement the students* regular work. In addition broadcasts will include news, agriculture, homemaking, health, weather, time, and numerous other services. "MICHIGAN - During the past year the University of Michigan presented 19 radio programs weekly over three commercial stations: WJR, Detroit; WCAR, rontiac; WMBC, Detroit. These stations provided their facilities free, the University paying telephone tolls upon programs to the station’s transmitter. Such series as ”The Awakening Community,” “Your Interesting Children,”“World Affairs,” “Iivmns You All Should Know,” “Marital Relation Series,” "Michigan High School Forensic Association Series,” and student forums were presented. A check on listening audiened is obtained by sending mimeographed copies of the various talks. 4 The University Broadcasting 3ervice is an adjunct of the University ^tension Service. It is under the control of a University Committee on Broadcasting and its Director since 1925 has been Professor Waldo Abbot • “The facilities are used by students in the Department of Speech. Classes in the fundamentals of radio, radio dramatics, radio writing, radio speech, and laboratory in the recording and reproduction of speech are offered. “The University has recently been granted authority for the application for a frecuency modulation station ktf, the application has not yet been filed. "OHIO - Broadcasting program of over 38 hours per week over W03U presents a variety of cervices including: Thirty-nine Radio Junior College courses have been broadcast with a total enrollment of nearly 10,000. Programs for schools were broadcast and received in a large number of classrooms throughout Ohio. Informal talks broadcast have included more than 1,000 appearanced by members of the faculty, repre¬ senting more than 60 departments of instruction. There are programs