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TheNational Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) was a US organization of broadcasters with aims to share or coordinate educational programmes. It was founded as theAssociation of College and University Broadcasting Stations (ACUBS) in 1925[1] as a result ofFourth National Radio Conference, held by theU.S. Department of Commerce.[2]
It was primarily a "program idea exchange" with 25 members that occasionally attempted to rebroadcast programs shared between them.[3] The original constitution for the organization read:
ACUBS held its first annual conference July 1 and 2, 1930 inColumbus, Ohio joining with the Institution of Education by Radio.[2]
In September 1934, the organization rewrote its constitution, and changed its name from the Association of College University Broadcasting Stations (ACUBS) to the "National Association of Educational Broadcasters."[1]
In 1938, NAEB persuaded theFederal Communications Commission to reserve five radio channels for educational broadcasting.
In 1945, the FCC reserved five of the 40 channels in new high-frequency band forNon-commercial educational stations. There were initially planned to beAM services; however, they eventually manifested asFM ones.
NAEB merged with theAssociation of Education by Radio-Television in 1956. It was reorganized in 1963 with two new divisions,Educational Television Stations andNational Educational Radio. These divisions lasted until 1973, when they were diminished. Their roles were taken over byPublic Broadcasting Service (PBS) andAssociation of Public Radio Stations (APRS) respectively.[5] The APRS became the "Washington lobby and public relations arm of CPB-qualified radio stations."[5] The APRS merged withNational Public Radio (NPR) in 1977, which allowed NPR to provide "leadership of a full-fledged membership organization providing member stations with training, program promotion and management, and representing the interests of public radio stations before Congress, the FCC and other regulatory organizations."[6] Before this merger, NPR was "largely a production and distribution center", so the merger was influential in making NPR what it is today.[6]
Until it folded in 1981, NAEB was public broadcasting's primary voice, forum and program distributor.
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