Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council is first discussed.

Presidents of Boston University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern, and Tufts meet at the home of Harvard president James Bryant Conant to discuss joining together to create educational radio programming. What comes to be called the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council premieres programming in 1947.* Boston College initially decides to try to start its own station in order to avoid potential religious conflicts over program content.