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Walter P. and Martha Sheppard
Interviewed by: Burt Harrison
Public Radio Oral History Project
August 23, 1978
Walter Sheppard's radio career began in 1947 as a disc jockey at a station in his home town in New Hampshire while still in high school. He studied broadcasting at Boston University and Wisconsin, was Chief of Music Production for the Armed Forces Network in Germany, worked for a FM concert network in New England, and was a member of the faculty at Boston University and WBUR. Sheppard spent six years as Program Manager and later General Manager of Riverside Radio (WRVR). In 1971, he became Manager of WITF-FM (Hershey, PA), and recently became Vice President for Programming of WITF-FM and TV.
In this interview, Walter Sheppard discusses a wide variety of topics, from acting in in-school radio dramas in Boston, through problems in broadcasting opera, to the differences between operating a fine arts station in New York City and in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Martha Sheppard, who also served as Program Manager and General Manager at WRVR, discusses the last days of the stations' non-commercial service.
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
- educational radio
- National Educational Radio (NER)
- National Educational Radio Network (NERN)
- National Public Radio (NPR)
- WITF (Hershey, PA)
- WRVR (Riverside, NY)
