by Randall Davidson
foreword by Bill Siemering
University of Wisconsin Press, 2017
Paper: 978-0-299-21874-4 | eISBN: 978-0-299-21873-7 | Cloth: 978-0-299-21870-6
Library of Congress Classification HE8697.95.U6D38 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 384.540977583

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.