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John C. Crabbe
Interviewed by: Burt Harrison
Public Radio Oral History Project
August 5, 1978
Jim Robertson Interview described below.
John Crabbe started in public broadcasting in 1937, when he joined the faculty of the University of the Pacific to teach courses in radio. He was instrumental in putting one of California's first educational radio stations, KUOP-FM on the air. He also participated in the drive to reserve FM channels for educational use, served on the staff of the Institute for Educational by Radio and Television for several years, and was the first manager of KVIE-TV, Sacramento. He was also one of the first Program Associates of the Educational Television and Radio Center. At the time of the interview, he was general manager of KTSC-TV, Pueblo, CO.
In this interview, Crabbe discusses his career, especially the early days of KUOP.
People
- Fran Allison
- Gertrude Broderick
- Matthew Coffey
- James Day
- Frank Dunham
- Lawrence Frymire
- Frieda Hennock
- Richard B. Hull
- William Kling
- Ralph Steetle
- Pat Swenson
Topics
- Association for Education by Radio/Radio-Television (AER/AERT)
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- educational radio
- educational television
- Federal Communications Commission
- KUOP
- Kukla, Fran and Ollie
- KVIE
- National Association of Educational Broadcasters
- National Educational Radio Network
- National Educational Television
- National Public Radio
- public radio
- public television
- Western Radio and Television Conference
Interviewed by Jim Robertson
June 1, 1981
Topics
- educational radio
- educational television
- Educational Television and Radio Center
- Federal Communications Commission
- KVIE
- Penn State Conference
