Radio: Cautious Progress

Everybody talks a good deal about educational TV, but, in the view of Federal Communication's Commissioner Robert E. Lee, *— nobody seems to do much about it. More than two years have passed since the FCC set aside 242 tax-exempt channels for education, and 195 of them are still going abegging. Is educational TV worth the long wait, or should the unused channels be thrown open to commercial use? By last week Lee's public statements had created enough of a stir to set educators to examining their TV records.

Actually, the educators have been...

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