I. Keith Tyler

I. Keith Tyler has devoted his career to the advancement of education by means of broadcasting, mostly radio. At the time of this interview, Tyler has spent 43 years on the faculty of Ohio State University. For twenty-seven of those years he was Director of the Ohio Institute for Education by Radio-Television.

In this interview, Dr. Tyler talks about the Ohio State Institutes, what they were intended to do, and what he thinks they accomplished. He also discusses the use of radio in education, and describes the activities which led to the reservation of television channels for public and educational use.

Further information on I. Keith Tyler can be found in the I. Keith Tyler Papers at the University Archives, Ohio State University.

Topics

• Association for Education by Radio
• educational radio
• educational television
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• Institute for Education by Radio-Television (IERT)
• Joint Council on Educational Telecommunications (JCET)
• National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB)

Interviewed by: Jim Robertson
August 21, 1981

People

• Frieda Hennock

Topics

• educational television
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• Institute for Education by Radio-Television (IERT)

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