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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960775903321

Autore

Davidson Randall <1959->

Titolo

9XM talking : WHA Radio and the Wisconsin idea / / Randall Davidson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, Terrace Books, c2006

ISBN

9786612270222

9781282270220

1282270222

9780299218737

0299218732

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (422 p.)

Disciplina

384.5409775/83

Soggetti

Public radio - Wisconsin - History

Educational radio stations - Wisconsin - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-384) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue: Voices through the Air: A Brief History of Radio -- 1. Early Wireless Experiments at the University of Wisconsin, 1909-16 -- 2. Early Broadcasts from 9XM, 1916-17 -- 3. Wartime Radio Experiments at the University of Wisconsin, 1917-18 -- 4. Telephonic Broadcasting by 9XM, 1919-20 -- 5. Regular Voice Broadcasts on 9XM, 1921 -- 6. WHA Begins, 1922-29 -- 7. WHA Comes into Its Own, 1929-30 -- 8. The WHA-WLBL Merger, 1930-31 -- 9. More Hours on the Air, 1930-33 -- 10. More Challenges from Commercial Stations -- 11. The Political Education Forum -- 12. A New Home, 1933-36 -- 13. Budget Woes and New Programs, 1935-41 -- 14. The War Years and After, 1942-47 -- 15. The FM Network -- 16. From Educational Radio to Public Radio, 1947-70 -- 17. The Era of Public Radio, 1971-78 -- 18. WPAH/WLBL, the Other State Station, 1923-51 -- 19. The Farm Program -- 20. The Homemakers' Program -- 21. The Wisconsin School of the Air -- 22. The Wisconsin College of the Air -- 23. Chapter a Day -- 24. To Today, 1979- -- Postscript: The Oldest Station in the Nation -- Appendix A: 9XM/WHA Time Line -- Appendix B: WPAH/WCP/WLBL Time Line -- Appendix C: FM Network Time Line -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index



-- Station Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Randall Davidson provides a comprehensive history of the innovative work of Wisconsin's educational radio stations. Beginning with the first broadcast by experimental station 9XM at the University of Wisconsin, followed by WHA, through the state-owned affiliate WLBL, to the network of stations that in the years following WWII formed the Wisconsin Public Radio network, Davidson describes how, with homemade equipment and ideas developed from scratch, public radio became a tangible example of the Wisconsin Idea, bringing the educational riches of the university to all the state's residents. Marking the centennial year of Wisconsin Public Radio, this paperback edition includes a new foreword by Bill Siemering, National Public Radio's founding director of programming.