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Harold B. McCarty
Interviewed by: Burt Harrison
Public Radio Oral History Project
September 21, 1978
Jim Robertson Interview described below.
Harold B. McCarty spent thirty-nine years from 1928 through most of 1967 in public radio in Wisconsin, as a student announcer, as Director of WHA AM, FM, and TV, and as head of the nine station Wisconsin state radio network, which he helped to create. McCarty was an early and fluent spokemsan for educational and public broadcasting on the nationwide scene. He served as one of the first presidents of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, and belonged to a wide variety of commissions, committees and delegations.
In this interview, McCarty discusses the development of non-commercial radio in Wisconsin and the country at large. He also discusses the Wisconsin School of the Air and College of the Air as well as the importance of land-grant colleges and universities in the development of public radio.
For further information on Harold B. McCarty, consult the Harold B. McCarty Papers at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Institute for Education by Radio-Television (IERT)
- National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB)
- public radio
- public television
- WHA (Madison, WI)
Interviewed by Jim Robertson
June 29, 1981
People
- C. Scott Fletcher
- William Harley
- Frieda Hennock
- Richard Hull
- Morris Novik
- Frank Schooley
- Ralph Steetle
Topics
- Allerton House
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- Joint Committee on Educational Television
- National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB)
- National Educational Television and Radio Center
- WHA (Madison, WI)
