Eastern Educational Radio Network

Administrative History/Information:

• Established as Educational Radio Network in 1961 as a network of stations including:
  • WAMC (Albany, NY)
  • WAMU (Washington, DC)
  • WFCR (Amherst, MA)
  • WGBH (Boston, MA)
  • WHYY (Philadelphia, PA)
  • WRVR (New York, NY)
• Round-robin system of interconnection providing for two-way simultaneous communications
• Made part of National Educational Television and Radio Center in 1962
• Renamed Eastern Educational Radio Network in 1963

Collection(s):

• Burt Harrison Papers - Interviews:
  • Albert Hulsen
  • Donald R. Quayle
  • John D. Summerfield

Reference Shelf Materials

Reading Room

Blakely, Robert J. To Serve the Public Interest: Educational Broadcasting in the United States. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1979.

• NPBA Collection: LB 1044.8 .B55
• LAB Collection: 374.269 B (NAB Books)

Quayle, Donald. "Educational Radio Network," NAEB Journal Vol. 22, No. 2 (March-April 1963): 50-58 Periodicals

By Request

Wood, Donald Neal. "The First Decade of the 'Fourth Network': An Historical, Descriptive Analysis of the national Educational Television and Radio Center," Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan, 1963. Dissertations/Theses

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