#40017

                         RECORDS OF THE
               ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC RADIO

                             in the
             University Archives and Records Service
           University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
                    Wilson Library, CB# 3926
                   Chapel Hill, North Carolina
                           27514-8890

                            July 1992

     On February 14, 1978, Governor James B. Hunt, Jr.,
established by Executive Order the North Carolina Task Force on
Public Telecommunications to conduct a one-year study of existing
state telecommunications (television, radio, telephone data
transmission systems) facilities and to make recommendations on
future organizational, service, and funding aspects of such
facilities.  On February 17 the Task Force, under Chairman
Herbert Hyde and with President William Friday representing the
University of North Carolina System, held its first meeting.

     In June the Advisory Committee on Public Radio was created
to study and make recommendations to the Task Force on the
state's FM radio facilities.  Dr. Wesley Wallace of the
Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was appointed its
Chairman.  In early July the Advisory Committee assumed the
additional responsibility of fulfilling the University's
responsibility under the General Assembly's "Act to Design, Plan,
and Implement a Statewide Public FM Radio Network," which had
been passed on June 16.

     This records group consists of the files of Dr. Wesley
Wallace as Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Public Radio and
details the Committee's activities from July 1978 through
February 1979.  The files include (1) informational materials
produced and distributed by the Task Force, February
1978-February 1979, and (2) correspondence, memoranda, minutes,
reports, and expense reports of the Advisory Committee on Public
Radio.  The arrangement is as follows:

     North Carolina Task Force on Telecommunications, Feb. 1978-
          Feb. 1979

     Advisory Committee on Public Radio:
          General Correspondence, Memoranda, Minutes, Reports,
               etc., July 1978-March 1979
          Committee Expenses (travel, telephone, subsistence),
               July 1978-February 1979
          Audio Tapes of Committee Meetings, July 10, July 17,
               August 1, 11, 22, 1978
                    (14 cassette tapes numbered A61-A74; shelved
                    separately; consult staff for access;
                    unverified transcripts are filed in
                    chronological order in General Correspondence
                    folders, above)