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National Educational Radio Network (NERN)
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Administrative History/Information:
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began as the National Association of Educational Broadcasters Tape Network
at University of Illinois with help of a $245,350 grant from the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation: 1951
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way to exchange tapes among the stations
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NAEB Tape Network became the National Educational Radio Network (NERN):
1963
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transferred to National
Public Radio in 1970
Starr, Rae. "Here's a Radio Network Which has No Announcers, Mikes or
Sponsors" Champaign-Urbana Courier July 19, 1956: p. 33; Burt Harrison Papers: Jim Robertson Interview; Blakely, Robert. To Serve the Public Interest: Educational Broadcasting in the United States
(1979): 149
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