However, organized radio broadcasting at the University of Connecticut began in the early 1920s. WABL / WCAC On June 1, 1923 the university, then called Connecticut Agricultural College, was issued a license for a new AM station in Storrs, with sequentially assigned call letters of WABL. The station initially operated on 1060 kHz with 100-watts from an on-campus antenna supported by two steel towers. In 1925 power was increased to 500 watts and the call letters changed to WCAC. On April 30, 1936 WCAC's license was voluntarily surrendered for cancellation, due to frustrations over restricted operating hours and constant frequency and power changes mandated by the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) and its 1934 successor the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), that made it impossible for the college to achieve its goal of developing a state-wide educational service. AM carrier current station Around the time that WCAC went off the air, students at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island were developing a campus-wide broadcast service called "The Brown Network". This employed "carrier current" transmissions, using multiple very low power AM band radio transmitters that fed their signals into building electrical wires, for reception by any standard radios that were close by. Because of their extremely limited coverage, the FCC did not require carrier current stations to be licensed. Station installations soon spread to other college campuses, especially in the northeastern United States. Representatives from the University of Connecticut traveled to Brown to investigate the idea, and decided to establish a station at Storrs. In February 1940 the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) was formed to coordinate activities between twelve college carrier current stations and to solicit advertisers interested in sponsoring programs geared toward their student audiences, with the University of Connecticut as one of the charter members. The University of Connecticut station initially identified itself as both the "Husky Network" and "UCBS", which stood for the "University of Connecticut Broadcasting System". It began broadcasting on April 8, 1940, using student-built equipment installed by a group headed by LaVerge Williams. The station was initially funded by the Student Senate, but in the fall of 1941 became financially independent by selling airtime to advertisers. A May 1943 review of the "Husky Network" stated that the station was operating from 7:00-8:30 a.m. and 5:00-11:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, for a total of 37½ hours per week. However, equipment shortages due to the outbreak of World War