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NAEB NEWS LETTER Page 3 .....January I, *945 CALL LETTERS, WKAR. INTERESTED STAFF MEMBERS ANO STUDENTS IN THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT DEVELOPED THE FIRST TRANSMITTER WHICH WAS OPERATED ON A LIMITED SCHEDULE FOR TWO YEARS. When the Detroit News, early in 1924, installed a new transmitter they gave the College their old 500-watt equipment and on January 12 a license ENABLING THE COLLEGE STATION TO COVER THE OPERATION OF THIS NEW POWER WAS GRANTEDo As WKAR GREW IT CAME MORE AND MORE TO THE NOTICE OF THE EXTENSION SERVICE. In 1925 a Farm Radio School was inaugurated for the presentation of such COURSES AS HOME ECONOMICS, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, POULTRY AND VETERINARY MEDICINE, HORTICULTURE ANO GARDENING, DAIRYING AND FARM CROPS. ThIS NOVEL EXPERIMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION BY AIR ATTRACTED LARGE ENROLLMENTS AND EXAMINATIONS WERE GIVEN AND CERTIFICATES AWARDED TO ALL WHO COMPLETED THE COURSE So Further service to rural audiences, which began about the same time, INCLUDED MARKET REPORTS AND TIMELY INFORMATION ON AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES. This program has continued uninterrupted for 14 years and has become one OF THE LEADING CONTACTS WITH RURAL LISTENERSo The farm radio school was repeated in *926 with a *2 weeks’ course of STUDY AND A SCHEDULE WHICH INCLUDED *82 LECTURES WITH I 00 DIFFERENT instructors cooperating* In addition there WAS a series in nature study AND ONE BY DEPARTMENTS OF STATE GOVERNMENT 0 The SCHEDULE OF CLASSES THIS AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR WAS 0FFERE0 FROM JANUARY TO April. THE FARM PROGRAM AT NOON PROVIDED THE PROGRAM MATERIAL THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE YEAR* By THE TIME WKAR WA S READY TO APPLY FOR A LICENSE RENEWAL IN 1927 IT HAD CQME A LONG WAY FROM ITS PIONEER DAYS WHICH Fred C 0 HqLME? 3, ENGINEERING GRADUATE OF *923, DESCRIBES THUS.* "W'E HAD THE THRILL OF ACCOMPLISHING EVERYTHING WITH MAKESHIFT EQUIPMENT, OF TEARING EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY LOOSE ON THE CAMPUS TO GET THROUGH, AND FEELING IMPORTANT IN A TELEPHONE BOOTH ON THE TRACK AT BASKET BALL GAMES AND LECTURES« Bui EVERYTHING WAS PRETTY CRUDE . RARELY DID ANYONE KNOW UNTIL FIVE MINUTES BEFORE BROADCAST TIME IF THE.PROGRAM WOULD GO ON* We HAVE NO MONITOR, AND ONE OF US RAN BACK AND FORTH FROM THE ARMORY TO THE NEXT HOUSE WHERE SECRETARY H A LL1DAY HAD A RECEIVER* THERE WAS MUCH MORE ENTHUSIASM IN THOSE DAYS THAN THERE WAS SKILL AND FINESSE.” By 1927, radio had come far from that description. *n the license APPLICATION WERE LISTED FACULTY TALKS, VALUABLE INFORMATION ON CROP AND MARKET CONDITIONS AND INSECT PEST CAMPAIGNS. The APPLICATION FURTHER STATES THAT THE COLLEGE STATION, IN ADDITION TO HAVifJG BECOME AN IMPORTANT INFORMATION SOURCE TO ITS LISTENERS, HAD BECOME OF MATERIAL ASSISTANCE TO OTHER EXTENSION FACILITIES SUCH AS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGENTS, BOYS 8 AND GIRLS* CLUBS, HOME ECONOMICS DEMONSTRATIONS, RAILWAY DEMONSTRATION TOURS AND PUBLICATIONS. Several shifts of frequency assignment occurred during b?he year, *927, BUT WHEN THE FEDERAL RADIO COMMISSION REALLOCATED ALL STATIONS ON Oct. 31, 1928, WKAR was placed on *040 kilocycles and authorized to use 500 WATTS OF POWER DURING DAYTIME HOURS.