The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
Radio School

New York,-Foreseeing millions of
listeners, the bulk of them of
college age, the National Radio
Chamber of Commerce is developing
plan to establish radio extension
courses in American colleges and uni
versities. In radio education has
found new and powerful ally, said an
announcement issued at the Chambers
headquarters, in this city.
England and Germany are planning
to broadcast university extension
courses. Several prominent institu
tions, of Tearing in the United States
have made beginning in this direc-
tion," the announcement continues,
'and their report of the encouraging
success attending their efforts show
us that the possibilities of the new
method are not underestimated. "Ii1
"Sixty other educational institu-
tions are broadcasting educational and
!, musical programs, forty-seven of them
being colleges and universities. The
combined area nominally covered by
these institutions has been estimated
to be seven or eight times the total
area of the United States"
The National Radio Chamber of
Commerce, which has set out to end
confusion in the radio industry by
bringing into harmony all of its in
strumentalities, is devising a scheme
Of practical assistance to educational
institutions.
"The Importance of radio broad
casting as means Of reaching large
! States, otherwise inaccessible, is being
forced home to US every day." its an
nouncement declares. "There are~in
the United States between a million
and a million and a half radio re-
ceivers, representing between three
and four million radio listeners To-
Gated within comfortable range of the
speakers voice of one of 600 broad
castings stations, that is stations
equipped to send out telephone COM
munications. These listeners are for
the most part youthful-of school and
college age. Their number is rapidly
increasing and will undoubtedly, with
in very few years, total many mil
lions.
''The National Radio Chamber of
Commerce appreciates the tremendous
potentialities of this new channel of
communication in the field of educa-
ton and desires in some practical way
to support colleges and universities in
extending their influence through ra-
dio extension courses to these listen
ers, large proportion of whom would
not otherwise be reached.
ENGLAND and Germany have quick
! ly grasped the significance of radio
telephony as means of educational
contact, and preparations are being
made in, those countries to broadcast
university extension courses.
Extension lectures may be broad
cast from the college university with
out in any way interfering with the
| local audience within the school. 1t is
not now necessary that the school have
its own broadcasting station; power
full central station nearby connected
Herewith by the microphone in the
lecture room may be used. In some
instances the lectures are being fol-
lowed up by questionnaires and sug-
gestedN reading, which are mailed to
the listeners upon request, and by ex-
animation sheets following at the end
of the course
pioneers are already active IL this
field, and the situation seems to in
dictate both individual and concerted
action. There are, however, a great
many intricate problems connected
with the subject of broadcasting,
which the National Radio Chamber of
Commerce hopes to see solved within
comparatively short time These
problems have an intimate connection
with the success of any considerable
program of educational extension by
radio.
Kenneth P Gregg, one of the en-
gineers and managers of the National
Chamber, said the Chamber was col
lecting large amount of data to place
at the Disposal of educational institu-
tions. The aim of the Chamber, it
was stated, SIS to see that radio