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N A E 8 NEWS LETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS Frank E, Schooley, Editor, Station WILL, Urbana, III* October I, 1943 FLY ADPRESSES FREC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE When your Chairman, Commissioner Studebaker, asked me to have lunch with you this noon, September 17, and to address you on educational FM radio STATIONS, I TOLD HIM THAT I WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO HAVE THE LUNCH, BUT AS FOR A TALK AFT0RWARD, I H&O ONLY ONE THING TO SAY* w SaY IT, m WAS HIS REPLY- NOW I FIND THAT GEORGE AdASR, THE ASSISTANT CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE F.C.C. IS TO FOLLOW ME ON THE PROGRAM AT 2:30 THIS AFTERNOON, AND THAT HE HAS A GREAT DEAL TO SAY ABOUT FM AND RADIO IN EDUCATION- So I WANT TO GET MY WORD IN EDGEWISE HERE, AND LEAVE THE REST OF THE SUBJECT TO GEORGE. MY OWN SINGLE THOUGHT CAN BE BRIEFLY STATED, FOLLOWING A PROLONGED STRUGGLE, VHICH BEGAN LONG BEFORE THE PRESENT FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS Commission was set up, the present Commission has found it possible to SET ASIDE FIVE EDUCATIONAL CHANNELS THE COUNTRY OVER EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE USE OF NON-COMMERCIAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. THOSE FIVE CHANNELS AFFORD ROOM FOR HUNDREDS OF FM STATIONS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. It IS NOT UNLIKELY THAT EVERY SCHOOL BOARD OR OTHER EDUCATIONAL BODY WHICH SO DESIRES CAN FIND ROOM ON ONE OF THESE CHANNELS FOR A LONG TIME TO COME. Moreover, the five are among the choicest channels in the spectrum; THEY IMMEDIATELY ADJOIN THE 35 CHANNELS SET ASIDE FOR COMMERCIAL FM BROADCASTING, SO THAT PROGRAMS BROADCAST ON THESE CHANNELS WILL BE AUDIBLE NOT MERELY ON SPECIAL SCHOOL RECEIVERS BUT ON MOST ORDINARY FM HOME RECEIVERS AS WELL. THE RULES OF THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION SPECIFICALLY PROVIDE FOR ADULT EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER PROGRAMS AIMED AT THE COMMUNITY GENERALLY TO BE BROADCAST OVER THE SCHOOL STATIONS, PROVIDED ONLY THAT THEY REMAIN NON-COMMERCIAL. THUS EDUCATION NOV/ HAS WHAT IT HAS SOUGHT THROUGH BITTER BATTLE OVER MORE THAN A DECADE —A HOME OF ITS OWN ON THE AIR. But --AND THIS IS THE POINT I WANT CHIEFLY TO STRESS —THOSE CHOICE CHANNELS WERE NOT SET ASIDE FOR A&SENTEX5. . THE ETHER IS FAR TOO CROWDED, THE PRESSURE FROM OTHER INTERESTS SEEKING TO USE RADIO FAR TOO GREAT, TO PERMIT CONTINUED RESERVATION OF THOSE CHANNELS, UNLESS EDUCATORS ACTUALLY GET BUSY AND FILL THEM WITH EDUCATIONAL ST AT IONSk THERE IS NO ROOM FOR WHAT THE RAILROAD INDUSTRY CALLS ”DEADHEADING W . IF EDUCATION DOESN 8 T WANT AND DOESN'T NEED THOSE CHANNELS, ANO IF IT DOESN'T PROVE ITS DESIRES AND NEEDS BY ACTUALLY MAKING INTENSIVE USE OF THEM, HISTORY IS GOING TO REPEAT ITSELF, AND EDUCATION WILL AGAIN FIND THAT IT IS LEFT WITH MEMORIES OF A LOSE OPPORTUNITY. Some of you have memories long enough to recall what I MEA ^* REMEMBER THAT IN THE EARLY 1920' S, '."HEN BROADCASTING .AS FIRST CAPTURING THE ATTENTION OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ANO OPENING UP VISTAS CF UNLIMITED SERVICE IN THE CAUTE OF HUMAN ENLIGHTENMENT, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS —THE COLLEGES CHIEFLY BUT THE SCHOOLS AS WELL —WERE AMONG THE FIRST TO