FM Educational Radio-It Costs Less Than You Think (1948)

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SLET'S BE PRESUMPTUOUS! 


LET'S SUPPOSE: 


1—Your school has a restricted budget 


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2—Your school is hankering for an 
FM educational broadcasting station— 





AND 


3—Your school and community 
have talented people—people 
eager to learn how to plan, write, 
and produce educational radio programs 


THEN 
MORE POWER TO YOU —— 


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Let’s begin with a low-cost low-power broadcast station in the educational FM broadcast band. 


To develop a low-cost FM radio station 


Let’s take first things first— 


You will need this equipment: 





Program-Control Consolette .......... from $500 to $600 
Microphones and Stands.........--- " 400 " 500 

1 FM-fidelity Recording Equipment ....... “900 “ 1200 
Recorded-Program Reproducing Equipment Hae = 550 
Program-Monitoring & Talk-Back Equipment “ 300 " 475 

Studio Signal-Lights & Control Relays... " 50 " 75 
Patch-Strips, Cords, Wiring, Etc. ....... “ 500 " 600 

—or a total of approximately ...... from $3,000 to $4,000 


and—Cost of partitioning, heating, ventilating, sound- 
treating, lighting, and wiring the space, in an exist- 
ing building, fora studio and = —_—__—_ 
GGG TOOM 6 SS es from $1,500 to $3,000 


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totaling for basic program-production facilities, from $4,500 to $7,000 
You won't need—in the beginning— 
Either—an actual broadcast transmitter 


Or—a program director 
Assuming, of course, that you have an average 
number of enthusiastic amateur producers, writers, 
and directors on your faculty— 


NOW you will have all the equipment necessary for a top- 
flight radio workshop for writing, producing, and 
sending out programs to all your classrooms. 


JUMP ON THE FM 


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* All estimates are, of course, subject to change. 


THEN—More Power for School-Community Relationships ! 


You can add a transmitter! 


The new 10-watt FM transmitters, now being offered the 
school market, range in price from about $1,500 to $3,000. 
Operating expenses will cost you from $5,000 to $15,000 
a year—depending on how much free labor you get from 
voluntary sources. 





Especially worthy of note: 
You can cover a 7 to 10 mile radius with your 10-watt 
transmitter. This becomes your radio community. 


Applicants for the 10-watt FM stations are not re- 
quired to submit the considerable technical data 
required for a full-power station. 


None of the equipment needed for your low-power 
FM station will become obsolete or unnecessary when 
your station is increased to full power. All you'll 
have to do then is to add new power stages and 
accessory equipment, as your needs require. 


You can go on the air any number of hours you wish. 
You can go off the air on all holiday and vacation 


periods. —F 


For further information write: 

Educational Uses of Radio Seer 
Section, Office of Education, 

Federal Security Agency, 

Washington 28, D. C. AS 











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Scanned from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters Records 
at the Wisconsin Historical Society as part of 
“Unlocking the Airwaves: Revitalizing an Early Public and Educational Radio Collection.” 





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