RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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checking with listeners the effectiveness of its
programs, so that the council is in a position to
test the possibilities of the programs prepared by
its staff for the cooperating stations. Its activities
should indicate new ways in which commercial
radio may
serve the educational and cultural
wants of its audience.
World Wide Broadcasting Foundation, Boston
The sum of 325,000 has been appropriated to
the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation for
the experimental development of radio programs.
This foundation is a non-profit corporation which
aims to develop, produce, and broadcast programs
of a cultural, educational,
artistic, or
spiritual character, and to arrange for an interchange
throughout the world of constructive radio
programs. For these purposes it has the use of
W1XAL, a short-wave station in Boston, Massachusetts.
Under the terms of its license,
W1XAL is assigned the non-commercial use of
four short-wave channels by means of which it
reaches listeners in all parts of the world. It is
regularly heard in Europe, South Africa, South
America, and in all sections of the United States.
Programs of the World Wide Broadcasting
Foundation are broadcast over W1XAL four
times weekly during the best listening hours. Programs
for Sunday are planned primarily with a
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