Wisconsin on the Air: 100 Years of Public Broadcasting in the State That Invented It

by Jack Mitchell and Jack Mitchell

Book Overview

On a wintry evening in 1917, university professor Earle Terry listened with guests as the popular music of the day filtered from a physics laboratory in Science Hall into a receiving set in his living room. Little did they know that one hundred years of public service broadcasting had just begun. Terry's radio experiment blossomed into a pioneering endeavor to carry out the "Wisconsin Idea," a promise to make the university's knowledge accessible...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087020761X
• ISBN13: 9780870207617
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"