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Richard B. Hull
Interviewed by: Burt Harrison
Public Radio Oral History Project
July 25, 1978
Jim Robertson Interview described below.
Richard B. Hull started in educational broadcasting in 1936 when he joined the staff of WOI at Iowa State University. He worked in radio in Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Oregon, but spent most of his career as Director of Broadcasting - first at Iowa State and then at Ohio State Universities. Hull also served seventeen years in the National Association of Educational Broadcasters including three years as President.
In this interview, Hull discusses the early history of WOI. He also talks about the sense of mission which motivated the pioneers in non-commercial radio and his concern that this sense of mission has disappeared.
Richard B. Hull died in May 1980.
Topics
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
- educational radio
- educational television
- Institute for Education by Radio-Television (IERT)
- instructional television
- National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB)
- WOI (Ames, IA)
Interviewed by: Jim Robertson
November 20-21, 1979
People
Topics
- educational television
- Educational Television and Radio Center (ETRC)
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Joint Committee on Educational Television (JCET)
- National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB)
- WOI (Ames, IA)
