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Two broad categories apply to licensed stations owned by U.S. colleges and universities: Student-run — Stations where students play significant roles in programming, management, and other facets of operations, either on their own, through student government organizations, or under faculty supervision.
The Educational and Training Services Branch can trace its history back to 1762 when the First Regiment of Guards (Grenadiers) based at the Tower of London established a Unit School. [1] In 1797 the Royal Artillery opened a Regimental School at Woolwich Station, and in 1812 the British Parliament first provided funding for Army schools. [1]
Many universities and college stations today also broadcast via the internet, either as an additional outlet for their licensed stations or in lieu of obtaining a government-issued license. In addition, college programming is distributed through local cable television systems on cable FM or on the second audio programs of TV radio stations.
Educational television or learning television is the use of television programs in the field of distance education.It may be in the form of individual television programs or dedicated specialty channels that are often associated with cable television in the United States as Public, educational, and government access (PEG) channel providers.
The National Association of College Broadcasters (NACB), was founded in 1988 by four undergraduate students [1] at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Jumpstarted by a $300,000 grant from the now-defunct CBS Foundation, thanks to connections through the father of co-founder Doug Liman, NACB became the first trade association specifically geared to all aspects of American student ...
The College of Communication, Information, and Media (CCIM) is a part of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. The Ball Communication Building and the David Letterman Communication and Media Building house the CCIM classrooms, offices, television studios, and radio station. CCIM has 1,300 majors and minors, placing it among the ten largest ...
On the FM broadcast band, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reserved the lowest 20 channels, 201~220 (88.1~91.9 MHz) for NCE stations only.This is known as the reserved band, sometimes known by the term "left of the dial" (taken from the Replacements' song of the same name), which refers to the college and other non-commercial stations that broadcast from those frequencies. [2]
The network was founded as the Educational Television and Radio Center (ETRC) in November 1952 by a grant from the Ford Foundation's Fund for Adult Education (FAE). It was originally a limited service for exchanging and distributing educational television programs produced by local television stations to other stations; it did not produce any material by itself.