Robert L. Hilliard

Dr. Robert L. Hilliard was the chief of the Educational Broadcasting Branch of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and chaired the Federal Interagency Media Committee for the White House. Prior to joining the Commission staff, Dr. Hilliard was both a broadcaster and teacher of broadcasting at various colleges and universities in New York and North Carolina. He also wrote a number of highly regarded college textbooks on various phrases of radio and television broadcasting. He currently teaches at Emerson College as a Professor of Visual and Media Arts and was formerly the Dean of Graduate Studies and Dean of Continuing Education there.

In this interview, Hilliard discusses his work with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the role he thinks his office has played in the development of educational and public broadcasting. Topics discussed include the licensing of ten watt FM stations, and the use of the criteria system by CPB to limit the number of radio stations receiving CPB services and grants.

Topics

• Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
• educational radio
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS)
• National Public Radio (NPR)
• public radio

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