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EDUCATIONAL NETWORK (Con’t) The weekly program bundle includes folk music from WMUB, Miami University, (Oxford, Ohio )5 a string quartet from \JUOA, University of Alabama; a discussion series from H 8 AA, Purdue University; the Cooper Union Forum and ’’Music for the Con¬ noisseur,” with David Randolph’s commentary, from TaINTC; readings from ’’Treasure Island" from KPFA, a station in Berkeley, Calif., whose listeners send in contribu*; tions to pay for the broadcasts; ’’Music of the Baroque” from WGBH, Lowell Institute, Boston; ’’The Fifteen Steps,” a children's program from WOI, Iowa State College, and ’’Stories ’n’ Stuff,” another children’s show from WILL, University of Illinois. Sources The latter program, incidentally, is broadcast here by WNYC on Saturday mornings from 8 to 8 : 30 . For additional programming the tape network also draws upon a wide variety of sources, including the British and Canadian Broadcasting Corporations, the Univer¬ sity of Berne in Switzerland, the Federal and Mutual Security Agencies and the United Nations. For the most part, the ’’bicycling'* of programs from one station to another is no longer necessary. The network’s headquarters now has a large supply of tape and recently installed a mass duplicator, a single mandrel machine that turns out eleven copies of a half-hour show in ten minutes. Duplication is made backward, starting with the end of the program so the reels of tape need not be rewound, thus saving time and effort*. ' The only exception of stations not being sent their own copies of a broad¬ cast is in the case of E.B.C. programs. Tapes from England cannot be duplicated be¬ cause of restrictions by the artists’ union there. The tape network receives twelve copies of each B.B.C. program and has to “bicycle” them around the circuit. Day to day service to the network is supervised by Jim Miles, executive director of the N.A.E.B., who is currently on leave from Purdue, where he is director of WBAA . Although stations currently pay an annual service assessment fee ranging from $ 7 ^ to $ 200 , depending on a station’s transmitter power, it was a $ 250,000 oper¬ ational fund grant last year from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation that put the tape net¬ work on sound financial footing. The grant is to be spent over a period of five years, at which time the non-profit network, through a gradual increase in assessments, will be self-sustain¬ ing. Any commercial radio network, hard pressed by television, would gladly abolish six vice presidents if it knew it could say the same five years from now.