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After V-J Day, advertisers had to budget their funds more tightly, and IBS's power to attract customers went into a sharp decline. In 1947, five member stations from the Ivy League--Dartmouth (WDBS), Harvard (then called WHRV), Pennsylvania (WXPN), Princeton (WPRU) and Yale (WYBC) seceded and formed a splinter group called the Ivy Network. Cornell joined later to bring the Network's roster up to its present number...
...years, the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates radio stations, has been having trouble with college networks. These networks frequently jammed commercial stations; Amherst's station kept veterans' wives from hearing their soap operas, and Dartmouth's WDBS blacked out a sizable surrounding area when someone tried to make it reach White River Junction...
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