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Carl Menzer
Interviewed by: Burt Harrison
Public Radio Oral History Project
September 3, 1978
Carl Menzer was Director of WSUI, Iowa City, Iowa from 1921 or 1922 until his retirement in 1968. While a student of Engineering at the State University of Iowa, he built its first voice transmitter in 1919. He was one of the founding members of the Association of Colege and University Broadcasting Stations, the organization that became the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB). He was also an early advocate of national, live networking for educational and public radio.
In this interview, Menzer discusses a wide variety of subjexcts including early broadcast equipment, programming, hearings before the old Federal Radio Commission and the FCC, and early plans for a live line network.
- educational radio
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB)
- public radio
