Network Broadcasting Begins Again Tonight

WHRB, off then air by a Federal Communications Commission order in mid-January, will resume broadcasting at 7 p.m. this evening, D. Ben Minnich '51, Network technical director, announced last night.

Permission has been received from Washington to resume operations on the condition that engineering modifications will proceed as rapidly as possible. Most important of these modifications will be a crystal transmitter control, which will make it possible for the station to stay in an exact frequency.

Except for the Business School, the station's entire hookup will be in operation again, more efficiently than before, Minnich said. The time-sharing agreement with the Business School will be discontinued for the present. The increase in efficiency results from the fact that more power can be sent into the Houses with less leakage.

Rejoined IBS

The director also announced that the Network has rejoined the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System, "The Network left IBS in December, 1947," he said, "because of a disagreement in policies which have since been modified. Representatives of IBS will be supporting the case of college radio in the Commission's hearings, which have now been postponed until summer."

Since the FCC quietus, WHRB engineers have been engaged in modifying the transmission system to reduce field strength and shielding and repairing the defective transmitter to cut down radiation leakage. Most of the work has gone into running the coaxial cable system into Adams, Kirkland, and Winthrop, which had not yet been converted.