Wisconsin on the Air
Title | Wisconsin on the Air PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Mitchell |
Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2016-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0870207628 |
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. Little did they know that one hundred years of public service broadcasting had just begun. Terry’s radio experiment blossomed into a pioneering endeavor to carry out the "Wisconsin Idea," a promise to make the university’s knowledge accessible to all Wisconsinites, in their homes, statewide, a Progressive-era principle that still guides public broadcasting in Wisconsin and throughout the nation. In 1947, television was added to this public service model with Channel 21 in Madison, produced, like radio, from the University of Wisconsin campus. 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. A history one hundred years in the making, Wisconsin on the Air introduces readers to the personalities and philosophies, the funding challenges and legislation, the original Wisconsin programming and pioneering technology that gave us public radio and television. 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.
The Story of Act 31
Title | The Story of Act 31 PDF eBook |
Author | J P Leary |
Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2018-03-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0870208330 |
From forward-thinking resolution to violent controversy and beyond. Since its passage in 1989, a state law known as Act 31 requires that all students in Wisconsin learn about the history, culture, and tribal sovereignty of Wisconsin’s federally recognized tribes. The Story of Act 31 tells the story of the law’s inception—tracing its origins to a court decision in 1983 that affirmed American Indian hunting and fishing treaty rights in Wisconsin, and to the violent public outcry that followed the court’s decision. Author J P Leary paints a picture of controversy stemming from past policy decisions that denied generations of Wisconsin students the opportunity to learn about tribal history.
The State of Wisconsin Blue Book
Title | The State of Wisconsin Blue Book PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Legislative Reference Bureau |
Total Pages | 1000 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Elections |
ISBN |
Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin for ...
Title | Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin for ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1014 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Wisconsin |
ISBN |
Wisconsin Public Documents
Title | Wisconsin Public Documents PDF eBook |
Author | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 546 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Government publications |
ISBN |
Wisconsin Public Documents
Title | Wisconsin Public Documents PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | |
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Long-range Financing for Public Broadcasting, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Communications of ..., 94-1, April 8, 9, 10, 14, and 22, 1975
Title | Long-range Financing for Public Broadcasting, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Communications of ..., 94-1, April 8, 9, 10, 14, and 22, 1975 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 572 |
Release | 1975 |
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