NAEB Newsletter (Apr 1952)

Page scan 00013 from NAEB Newsletter

Record Details:

Title:
NAEB Newsletter
Date:
Apr 1952
Publisher:
National Association of Educational Broadcasters
Volume:
NAEB news letter (April 1952)
Leaf #:
00013
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
{"Dunn, John W.","KSLH (Radio station : St. Louis, Mo.)","Gordon, W.B.","KUOM (Radio station : Minneapolis, Minn.)","WTVJ (Television Station : Miami, Fla.)","WOI-TV (Television Station : Ames, Iowa)","WNYE (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)","Syracuse University","University of Michigan","KUOM (Radio station : Minneapolis, Minn.)","WUOM (Radio station : Ann Arbor, Mich.)","KUSD (Radio station : Vermillion, S.D.)","NAEB Tape Network","Rider, Richard L.","Smythe, Dallas W."}
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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FOURTH RADIO FREE EUROPE TRANSMITTER GOES ON AIR IN PORTUGAL A 50 kilowatt short wave transmitter near Lisbon, Portugal, has started relaying Radio Free Europe programs through the Iron Curtain, it has been announced by General Lu¬ cius D. Clay, national chairman of the Crusade for Freedom. General Clay revealed that with the inauguration of this transmitter, Radio Free Eu¬ rope now operates four $0 kilowatt short wave transmitters in Portugal, made possible by the contributions of the American people to the 1951 Crusade for Freedom* Radio Free Europe now broadcasts daily to six Iron Curtain countries for a total of 300 hours per week over a network of nine freedom stations. In addition to the four transmitters in the Munich and Frankfort areas of Western Germany. Portugal Selected Due to Short Wave Relay Position The four Portugal transmitters, located in Gloria, a village i;0 miles northeast of Lisbon, are operated by a joint Portuguese-Radio Free Europe corporation named Socie- dade Anonima de Radio Retransmissao (RARET). Under the terms of an agreement with the Portuguese government, RARET facilities are used exclusively by Radio Free Europe to relay programs originating in its Munich studios to Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslo¬ vakia, Hungary, Poland, and Rumania. Portugal was selected as the site for Radio Free Europe's new transmitters because of its excellent short wave relay position to Eastern Europe, General Clay said. He praised the government and the people of Portugal for their cooperation in making the Radio Free Europe installations possible and c ompleting their construction in the record-breaking time of less than six months. Ground for the transmitter building in Gloria was broken last September and the four transmitters were on the air by the end of February. The first of the four 50 kilowatt transmitters in Gloria went on the air Christmas day, beaming Radio Free Europe programs to the Communist satellite states. The second transmitter started broadcasting operations in January, the "bird early in February and the fourth on February 27. RARET’s installation at Gloria includes a half-mile long antenna system designed to magnify the power of the transmitters and provide pin-point accuracy for Radio Free Europe broadcasts to Eastern Europe. Multiple Transmissions Possible In order to relay programs to Portugal from Radio Free Europe's broadcasting head¬ quarters in Munich, two 10 kilowatt transmitters have been installed by Radio Free Europe. These programs are received at RARET 1 s modern receiving station ten miles from Gloria and then fed to the powerful 50 kilowatt transmitters in Gloria for re- broadcast through the Iron Curtain. In this way. Radio Free Europe’s program can be broadcast simultaneously, on differ¬ ent wave lengths, to Eastern Europe by transmitters in Munich, Frankfort and Portur- gal. The transmission of programs over several frequencies enables Radio Free Europe to reach a maximum potential audience in the Soviet captive states and counteract the efforts of the Communists to jam the programs. "The expansion of Radio Free Europe, which started broadcasting on July 1+, 1950, with a single low-powered transmitter, is a tremendous achievement," General Clay said. "Much of the credit for this hard-hitting campaign against Communism goes to the American people who have given so generously to the Crusade for Freedom.