Wisconsin on the Air: 100 Years of Public Broadcasting in the State That Invented It
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (899 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087020761X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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He received the two highest honors in public radio, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Edward R. Mitchell was the first employee of National Public Radio, where he was instrumental in developing the groundbreaking newsmagazine All Things Considered. Mitchell joined the faculty of the UWMadison School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1998. He is the author of Listener Supported: The Culture and History of Public Radio.. Jack Mi
He received the two highest honors in public radio, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Edward R. He is the author of Listener Supported: The Culture and History of Public Radio.. Mitchell joined the faculty of the UWMadison School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1998. Mitchell was the first employee of National Public Radio, where he was instrumental in developing the groundbreaking newsmagazine All Things Considered. Murrow Award and the Edward Elson National Public Radio Distinguished Service Award. About the AuthorJack Mitchell, PhD, led Wisconsin Public Radio from 1976 till 1997, initiating the transition from educational radio to WPR
By 1967, when the Public Broadcasting Act created the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), the Wisconsin stations had been broadcasting for fifty years. On a wintry evening in 1917, university professor Earle Terry listened with guests as the popular music of the day filtered from a physics laboratory in Science Hall into a receiving set in his living room. In 1947, television was added to this public service model with Channel 21 in Madison, produced, like radio, from the University of Wisconsin campus. Little did they know that one hundred years of public service broadcasting had just begun. Author Jack Mitchell, who developed All Things Considered for NPR before becoming the head of Wisconsin Public Radio, deftly maps public broadcasting’s hundred-year journey by charting Wisconsin’s transition from the early days of radio and television to educational broadcasting to the news, information, and music of Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television.. A history one hundred years in the making, Wisconsin on the Air introduces readers to the personalities and philosophies, the funding challenges and legisla
Fascinating Behind-the-Scenes Look at the History of Public Broadcasting REVIEW: WISCONSIN ON THE AIR100 Years of Public Broadcasting in the State That Invented ItBy Jack MitchellThe subtitle of this well-researched book truly says it all. Accomplished writer and broadcaster Jack Mitchell has written a sober and detailed history of Wisconsin Public Radio set against the backdrop of the social and political history of the state, from LaFollette’s Pro