Word: fm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news program of Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships, is one of two regularly scheduled telecasts which involve a member of the University. His program, long a feature of WGBH-FM, will be simultaneously televised Mondays through Fridays starting...
Looking Forward. When the all-out audiophile swings into action, his pet weapon is the tape recorder, with which he captures music for future use from his FM radio or his own and his friends...
Harvard, as one of the 11 members of the Lowell Institute Broadcasting Council, will cooperate in planning the WGBH-TV schedule. Several hundred faculty members have spoken on WGBH-FM in the past few years, and many more will soon appear on video. Professor Arthur E. Sutherland is currently organizing a weekly series to be entitled 'Life in Law." Although this program will rely mainly on lawyers, guest scholars from many fields will discuss such problems as segregation, penal reforms, and labor unions...
...Council had raised enough money to construct an educational FM station, scattered through Symphony Hall. In this dissected state, WGBH-FM began broadcasting, supported by the talent and money contributed by each member of the Council. The rare broadcasting fervor that drove such stolid institutions as Harvard or the Symphony to contribute unrestricted funds to a fledgling radio station must have reached the staff and performers as well: WGBH-FM soon attained national recognition for several top-notch programs, including Professor G. Wallace Woodworth's "Tomorrow's Symphony...
...FM radio is ideal for transmitting music, but the Council soon realized that when a radio talks it can easily become gabby. Without exhibits, or at least a speaker's face to look at, a listener soon becomes restless--especially if he is not versed in the subject under discussion. And subjects which require demonstration, such as dancing and art, often fall a trifle flat. So when the Federal Communications Commission lifted its famous TV freeze in 1951, WGBH immediately spoke for the educational channel assigned to Boston...