Direct, Immediate Coverage

WHRB's News Department tries to bring complete news coverage to the Harvard community. One of the station's five main departments, the news staff provides over three hours of stories and interviews for its regularly scheduled programs each week. On weekdays the department puts five-minute news summaries on the air at 5 p.m. and 8:55 p.m.

In addition to summarizing the daily news, WHRB's radio journalists try to give background coverage and variety to the news. The special events section arranges for lectures of general interest to be broadcast. Special events coverage this year, for example, has included the Godkin Lectures by Hugh Gaitskell. Through the efforts of special events, WHRB hopes to present this year's Will James Lectures, by J. Robert Oppenheimer.

This division of the News Department also features interesting personalities on KALEIDOSCOPE, heard Sundays at 3 p.m. In the near future KALEIDOSCOPE will present tape recordings of University Professor Paul J. Tillich speaking on "Is There a Real Religious Revival?" and Senator Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) lecturing on "The Russian Dilemma." This Sunday, March 24, the program will present a complete rebroadcast of the Harvard Invitational Forensic Tournament.

To provide additional background coverage, the News Department presents two other programs. HARVARDIANA, heard Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 7:15 p.m. offers personal interviews.

On Sundays at 5:30 p.m., the second program, ON FILE, gives a ten-minute analysis and background of recent Harvard, national, and world events.

Through its various news programs, WHRB's News Department is able to bring personalities and news events directly and immediately to Harvard.