National Association of Educational Broadcasters
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The National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) was founded as the Association of College University Broadcasting Stations (ACUBS) on November 12, 1925.
In 1938, ACUBS persuaded the Federal Communications Commission to reserve five radio channels for educational broadcasting.
In September 1934, the organisation rewrote its constitution, and changed its name to the "National Association of Educational Broadcasters."
In 1940 the FCC reserved five of the 40 channels in new high-frequency band for noncommercial educational stations. There were initially planned to be AM services; however, they eventually manifested as FM ones.
NAEB merged with the Association of Education by Radio-Television in 1956. It reorganized in 1963 with new divisions Educational Television Stations and National Educational Radio. These divisions lasted until 1973, when they were dissolved and their roles taken over by Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio respectively. This strengthed those organisations.
Until it folded in 1981, NAEB was public broadcasting's primary voice, forum and program distributor.
