New Britain herald., 1923-01-01
Regulating RADIO
FOR School USES
Plan 10 Start Extension Courses In
Colleges and Universities

New York. Jan, l.-Fereseeing mill
lions Of listeners. the bulk OF them OF
college age. the National Radio
Chamber Of Commerce Is developing
= plan 10 establish radio extension
courses IN American colleges and uni.
ysFsities. In radio education has
found q new and powerful ally, said
an announcement issued today al the
chambers headquarters. IN this city,
England ana Germany are planning
10 broadcast university extension
courses. -seyeral prominent institu-
iians OF learning In the United States
have made a beginning In this difee-
ton" the announcement continues
''and their reports OF the encouraging
success attending their efforts show Us
that the possibilities OF the new
method are not underestimated.
sixty other educational institu-
lions are broadeasting educational and
musical programs. forty-seven OF them
being colleges and universities. Nc
combined area nominally covered by
these institutions has been estimated
20 be seven or eight times the total
area OF the United States"
The National Radio Chamber Of
Commerce. which has set out 20 end
confusion In the radio industry by
bringing into harmony all OF Its In.
sirumentaiities. Ia deyising q scheme
OF practical assistance to educational
institutions.
It's Importance
''The importance OF radio broad
casting as q means OF reaching large
number OF listeners In the United
States. otherwise inaccessible. Is being
forced home TO us every day." It's an
nouncement declares. There are In
the United States between a million
and q million and q 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.
casting 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 q very few years. total many mill
lions.
"The National Radio Chamber Of
Commerce appreciates the tremendous
potentiaiities 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
radio extension courses to these lis
teners, a large proportion Of whom
would not otherwise be reached.
England and Germany have quick
" grasped the significance OF radio
telephony as means Of educational
contact, and preparations are being
made in those countries TO broadcast
university extension courses.
No Interference
Extension lectures may be broad
cast from the college university with
out in any way interfering with the
local audience within the school. u
is not now. necessary that the school
have its own broadcasting station; a
powerful central station nearby con-
nected Herewith by the microphone
in the lecture room may be used. Ir
some instances the lectures are being
followed up by questionnaires and
suggested reading. which are mailed
to the listeners upon request, and by
examination sheets following at the
end OF the course.
pioneers are already active In this
Aeld, and the situation seems to IN
dictate both individual and concerted
action. There are, however, a grea,
many intricate problems connected
with the subject of broadcasting
which the National Radio Chamber Of
Commerce hopes to see solved with
in a comparatively short time. These
nroblems 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 nationa
chamber said the chamber was col
lecting a large amount of data t.
place at the disposal of educationa
institutions The aim of the chamber
It was stated, lis to see that radio
broadcasting assumes, in the course
OF its evolution, sound economic
position of greatest possible useful