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John Albin Regnell
Interviewed by: Burt Harrison
Public Radio Oral History Project
September 27, 1978
John Albin Regnell worked as a teacher, a broadcaster, and a student of the early history of Public Broadcasting. From 1968 to 1978, he worked at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, where he was Chairman of the Department of Mass Communications and Director of Broadcasting. Before moving to this post, he spent nearly two decades as Program Manager of WILL in Urbana, Illinois, and as the unofficial "voice" of the NAEB Tape Network,
In this interview, John Regnell discussed WSIE, the station he supervised in Edwardsville. Mostly he talks about WILL, the NAEB Tape Network, and with Stories and Stuff, a daily program for children on which he was both producer and performer for fifteen years. He also contributes notes on the very early history of public radio.
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