WHA (Madison, WI)

Administrative History/Information:

• First experimental telephonic broadcasts by station 9XM: 1917
• 9XM becomes WHA: 1922
• WHA-FM begins: 1947
• WHA-TV begins: 1954
• WHA-TV receives Emmy: 1969
• Wisconsin Educational Communications Board becomes independent state agency: 1971
• WHA-FM becomes WERN; WHA Radio Association founded: 1974
• Wisconsin Public Radio Association founded: 1979
• Wisconsin Public Broadcasting Regional Center opens in Eau Claire: 1990

Related Collections:

• Burt Harrison Papers: Harold B. McCarty Interview
• Luke F. Lamb Papers
• Jim Robertson Papers - Interviews:
  • William G. Harley
  • Harold B. McCarty

Reference Shelf Materials

Reading Room

Blakely, Robert J. The People's Instrument: A Philosophy of Programming for Public Television. Washington, Public Affairs Press, 1971. BCAST PN 1992.8 .P8 B47

University of Wisconsin. The First 50 Years of University of Wisconsin Broadcasting WHA 1919-1969.... Wisconsin: WHA Radio, 1969 HE 8698 .F57

Wisconsin Public Broadcasting. Seventy-Five Years of Service: 1917-1992 HE 8700.8 .W57 1992

By Request

Leach, Eugene E. "Tuning Out Education: The Cooperation Doctrine in Radio, 1922-1938" 1983 Folder: 234

McCauley, Michael P. "The Battle of Educational Television in Wisconsin, 1952-1954" 1995 Dissertations/Theses

Wisconsin Public Broadcasting. The First 75 Years of Radio on Wisconsin Public Radio. 1992. Folder: 502

Related Collections in Other Repositories:

• Gerald A. Bartell Papers
• Harold A. Engel Papers
• Edgar B. Gordon Papers
• Malcolm P. Hanson Papers
• Cyril Moreau Jansky Papers
• Harold B. McCarty Papers
• John Stanley Penn Papers
• WHA Archives
• Wisconsin Citizens' Committee on Educational Television Records

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