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...organization, of course, is radio station WHRB which, pending FCC approval, plans to start FM broadcasts sometime early next spring. Superficially, this move will mean no basic change in the station's philosophy. As program director Gregory W. Harrison '57 explains it, "We've never tried to compete with the Boston popular music stations. What popular music we do play is usually jazz...
Actually, WHRB has never been "broadcasting" at all, except inadvertently, since its founding--by the CRIMSON--in 1940. By using radio frequency lines, strung up throughout the University's steam tunnels, it has never transmitted programs through the air which, so far as the FCC is concerned, is the meaning of broadcasting...
Technically, it is virtually impossible to eliminate such spurious radiation from WHRB's present system. And the moment they occur the station, normally free from FCC control, automatically violates federal law by broadcasting without a license. So far, WHRB has managed to keep within the confines of the University well enough to satisfy the FCC. But there is always the chance that some day the Commission will make the station shut down, as it has already done with Wellesley's and a number of other college stations throughout the country...
...this progress--and, indeed, all of WHRB's hopes--are still contingent on FCC approval to construct and to operate an FM station. This approval should come in January or February. Andrew has already convinced the trustees and staff members of the station that the projected move is a good one, and he feels sure he can do the same with the FCC...
Already the station has made tentative contracts with various suppliers for the necessary transmitting equipment, when and if approval comes. The FCC apparently frowns upon any purchase of equipment before a license has been granted. It regards this as undue pressure, although it does not object to tentative contractual agreements. Yet within six months after the construction license has been granted, the FCC insists that the station be ready for operation. Otherwise it will not grant an operating license, normally a routine procedure...