The National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) was a US organization of broadcasters with aims to share or coordinate educational programmes. It was founded as the Association of college and University Broadcasting Stations (ACUBS) in 1925 as a result of Fourth National Radio Conference, held by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
It was primarily a "program idea exchange" with 25 members that occasionally attempted to rebroadcast programs shared between them. The original constitution for the organization read:
::"Believing that radio is in its very nature one of the most important factors in our national and international welfare, we, the representatives of the institutions of higher learning, engaged in educational broadcasting, do associate ourselves together to promote, by mutual cooperation and united effort, the dissemination of knowledge to the end that both the technical and educational feature of broadcasting may be extended to all."
- By February 1950 the NAEB was offering taped recordings of documentary series, health discussions, U.S. Army Band concerts, BBC dramas, etc.
- In 1960, NAEB's tape processing facility moved to Washington, D.C.
- NAEB's historical tape archive spans 1952-1973 and consists of 5,063 audiotape reels. Its program inventory transitioned to National Public Radio (NPR) in 1975, then to the University of Maryland Libraries in October 1990. The APRS became the "Washington lobby and public relations arm of CPB-qualified radio stations." Before this merger, NPR was "largely a production and distribution center", so the merger was influential in making NPR what it is today.