WHRB Sends Team To Washington To Cover Election From Party HQ's

WHRB, Harvard's radio station, will augment its election coverage by dispatching a 25-man team to the headquarters of the national parties in Washington.

The contingent will relay personal interviews with senators, congressmen, and party officials back to the University Broadcasting System, composed of the stations of M.I.T, Boston University, Wellesley, Brandeis, and Harvard.

The U.B.S. election program termed by WHRB station manager Bill Cash as its "most ambitious project to date," will also include a special arrangement with the National Broadcasting Company allowing the stations to use N.B.C. material such as speeches or interviews.

Other sources of information will be the regular United Press International service plus phoned reports from colleges across the country on local contests. WHRB representatives will also report from Volpe and Bellotti campaign headquarters.

In its studios, WHRB will have Richard Donahue, legislative assistant to President Kennedy, to comment on national returns, and also Professor Frederick W. Frey of M.I.T. to analyze local results. The U.B.S. coverage will be carried over WHRB's FM facilities.

On AM, WHRB will broadcast the election special of the Ivy Radio Network, which pools the resources of the eight Ivy League stations. The Ivy Network's program will originate from studios in Radio City Center, and will be carried by all of the eight stations for most of each hour, the remainder to be occupied by local news.

Besides coverage from WHRB's Washington group and phoned reports from various colleges, the Ivy Network will feature taped interviews supplied by UPI and sidelights from political satirist Marvin Kitman of Monocle magazine.

Both WHRB election night broadcasts, the University Broadcasting System on FM and the Ivy Network on AM, will begin at 7 p.m. and continue until about 3 a.m. the following morning.