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Jerrold Sandler
Interviewed by: Burt Harrison
Public Radio Oral History Project
October 24, 1978
As Executive Director of National Educational Radio, Jerrold Sandler led the fight to change the legislation creating CPB from the Public Television Act to the Public Broadcasting Act, includng radio. He began in broadcasting in the mid-1940s, when, as a high school student, he became involved in New York's All City Radio Workshop. He later worked at WNYC, at the Radio-Television Department at Indiana University, and at WUOM, Ann Arbor, Michigan, before moving to Washington, DC to head the newly-created radio division of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters.
In this interview, Sandler gives his version of the battle to make radio a part of the Public Broadcasting Act. He also talks about activities at WNYC during the 1940s, the genesis of the NAEB Radio Tape Network, and the first, experimental national live interconnection of Public Radio stations in the mid-1960s.
People:
Topics:
- educational radio
- Educational Television Facilities Act of 1963
- Educational Television Stations (ETS)
- National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB)
- National Educational Radio (NER)
- National Educational Radio Network (NERN)
- Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
- WNYC
