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Starting last Saturday, the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council treats Greater Boston radio listeners to its latest project, an FM station. Named for the transmitter's locaton atop Great Blue Hill, WGBH will be the Council's biggest gun in its program of adult education...
Tucked away in the Great Blue Hill weather bureau's long disused kite-room is the station's 3 kilowatt transmitter, powerful enough to produce 20,000 watts of effective radiated power. This was a gift from Professor E.H. Armstrong of Columbia, inventor of the electronic circuit that made FM a reality. From its 630 foot-high platform, this power plant will make possible strong high-quality signals within a 65 mile radius, an area of some one and one third million families...
...moment, most of these millions will have to go without the Broadcasting Council's new station--only 102,000 families own FM radios. But if Greater Boston listeners continue buying 38,000 FM sets a year, as they did during the last twelve months, WGBH will soon have a more substantial audience...
WGBH is only one of the Broadcasting Council's projects, although it is the biggest. For four years the Council has been running public education programs on AM, FM, and TV, has produced 847 hours of such programs as "The Music's the Thing" (9 p.m., Wed., WMEX) and "America at the Crossroads," (10 p.m., Fri., WEEI), and it expects to keep on doing...
Tape recorders were standard equipment at the Summer School as the Lowell Institute recorded a number of summer courses for rebroadcast when its new educational FM station opens full operation this fall...