The National Educational Radio Network (NERN) was a means of distributing radio programs in the United States between 1961 and 1970. With funding from the Ford Foundation (who also funded the National Educational Television and Radio Center (who later spun off its radio assets)), the network began broadcasting on six radio stations on April 3, 1961.[1]
A forerunner was formed in 1925 as the Association of College and University Broadcasting Stations, then renamed the National Association of Educational Broadcasters in 1934. In 1951 a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation enabled the network to become the "(NAEB) Tape Network", based at the University of Illinois.[2]
NAEB Tape Network became part of the National Educational Radio Network in 1963. As a result of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 NERN became part of National Public Radio in 1970.
Prior to the passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, the NERN had commissioned a study by Herman W. Land to assess the history of and future possibilities for educational radio. The publication and circulation of this study helped to jumpstart lobbying to include radio in the act, which was ultimately successful.[3]
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National Volunteer Week - ethnic community radio stations
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It’s exactly 20 years since 3zzz started broadcasting in Melbourne. From humble beginnings in 1989, the station has developed from strength to strength. 3zzz is now the biggest multilingual radio station in Australia. It’s a community radio station, so it’s about different ethnic communities making radio for themselves, and having a voice for their own communities. Some 400 000 listeners tune in every week, with programs broadcast in more than 60 languages. 3zzz provides essential information to migrant communities, as well as entertainment and a welcoming forum to share ideas and discuss current affairs. 3zzz plays a really vital role in multicultural Melbourne because we are so connected with the communities that we serve, and anyone that can get involved, it’s a volunteer organisation. 400 volunteers of every age and cultural background keep 3zzz on-air. It gives people from diverse backgrounds, diverse cultures, a chance to kind of provide some sort of input into the whole society of Melbourne. The station’s youngest volunteer is still at school, while some veteran radio personalities are in their late eighties. George Zeeit has spent many years broadcasting for the Lebanese community. I’m happy, I’m very happy to do my program and to talk on the radio. That’s become like a hobby for me. But his positive attitude and years of experience aren’t always enough to always keep listeners happy. Sometimes they ring us, they ask for a song and we are in trouble. Sometimes we don’t have it! Meanwhile in Sydney, 2000FM has been broadcasting since 1992. More than 300 volunteers broadcast in 50 different languages to the entire Sydney area, as well as some of regional New South Wales. These programs give these people some connection. They may not yet be fully comfortable linking out to mainstream communities, but still they are linking out to something. That connection clearly important to both volunteers and listeners. They love it, they love it, and they wait for it, and they always say they’re waiting for next week to start again.
References
- ^ Michael P. McCauley, NPR: The Trials and Triumphs of National Public Radio (Columbia University Press, 2005) p. 17
- ^ Seattler, Paul (2004). The evolution of American educational technology. Information Age Publishing Inc. pp. 217ff. ISBN 1-59311-139-8.
- ^ Engelman, Ralph (1996). Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History. Sage Publications. pp. 87–88.
External links
- NERN Creative Mind and Method Series
- "National Educational Radio Network (NERN)". National Public Broadcasting Archives. Archived from the original on June 23, 2012. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
- History at U. Wisconsin
- Edwin G. Burrows helped to charter the NERN. His papers at the University of Maryland Libraries.
- Digitized audio tape reels of the NERN in the National Association of Educational Broadcasters Collection at the University of Maryland Libraries.
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