University of North Carolina (System). Advisory Committee on Public Radio.

The Advisory Committee on Public Radio was appointed in June 1978 by the President of the University of North Carolina (System) to study North Carolina's FM radio facilities and to make recommendations to the North Carolina Task Force on Public Telecommunications, a groups appointed earlier that year by the governor. The Advisory Committee, chaired by Wesley H. Wallace of the Dept. of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures at the University's Chapel Hill campus, was soon given the additional responsibility of fulfilling the University System's obligation, under an act of the General Assembly, to "design, plan, and implement a statewide public FM radio network."

On 14 February 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, and telephone data transmission systems) facilities and to make recommendations on future organizational, service, and funding aspects of such facilities. On 17 February 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 chairman. In early July the Advisory Committee assumed the additional responsibility of fulfilling the university sustem's responsibility under the General Assembly's Act to Design, Plan, and Implement a Statewide Public FM Radio Network, which had been passed on 16 June.