WHRB Music Offering Interrupts Instruction

WHRB radio programs are providing an unwelcome accompaniment to the teaching efforts of the Bureau of Study Counsel and other University offices located near the station's transmitter on Dunster Street.

The Bureau, which frequently uses tape recording of students' voices in its work, has found that some playbacks of the recordings are accompanied or drowned out by "WHRB afternoon operas."

An official of the Bureau said that WHRB "didn't seem to understand the problem" when he reported the complaint to them. The head of the FCC in Boston, however, yesterday explained that the difficulty is experienced by many people who use phonographs or tape recorders in the vicinity of radio transmittors.

He said that in areas where a radio signal is particularly strong, phonographs and tape recorders must be specially equipped to shut out the radio broadcasts.