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Robertson, Jim, 1918-. Jim Robertson papers, 1946-1989 and undated (majority 1970-1982)

Title: Jim Robertson papers

Jim Robertson began his career in noncommercial broadcasting at WTTW (Chicago, IL) as program director from 1954 to 1959. Starting in 1959, he held various positions at the National Educational Television and Radio Center, later National Educational Television including director of station relations and vice president and later president for network affairs. He also served as vice president and general manager for Community Television of Southern California, where he planned, equipped and constructed station KCET. His other positions in public broadcasting included chairman of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters Board of Directors and supervisor of WHA-AM-TV in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1970, Robertson became the Director of Radio for the National Association of Educational Broadcasters and the director of National Educational Radio. Later, he worked with a lobbying service -- the Association for Public Radio Stations, and in 1973, became a consultant in public broadcasting. Finally, in 1993, after crisscrossing the country with his wife conducting informal interviews with 56 pioneers in educational broadcasting, he published the book Televisionaries. The collection documents Robertson's oral history project as well as his work at National Educational Radio and his consulting work as part of Robertson Associates, Inc.

ArchivalResource: 13.25 linear feet

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Robertson, Jim, 1918-. Jim Robertson papers, 1946-1989 and undated (majority 1970-1982)

Title: Jim Robertson papers

Jim Robertson began his career in noncommercial broadcasting at WTTW (Chicago, IL) as program director from 1954 to 1959. Starting in 1959, he held various positions at the National Educational Television and Radio Center, later National Educational Television including director of station relations and vice president and later president for network affairs. He also served as vice president and general manager for Community Television of Southern California, where he planned, equipped and constructed station KCET. His other positions in public broadcasting included chairman of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters Board of Directors and supervisor of WHA-AM-TV in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1970, Robertson became the Director of Radio for the National Association of Educational Broadcasters and the director of National Educational Radio. Later, he worked with a lobbying service -- the Association for Public Radio Stations, and in 1973, became a consultant in public broadcasting. Finally, in 1993, after crisscrossing the country with his wife conducting informal interviews with 56 pioneers in educational broadcasting, he published the book Televisionaries. The collection documents Robertson's oral history project as well as his work at National Educational Radio and his consulting work as part of Robertson Associates, Inc.

ArchivalResource: 13.25 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1608 View

Ralph W. Steetle Papers, 1942-1981, 1950-1958

Title: Ralph W. Steetle Papers

Ralph Waldo Steetle, Sr. (1912-2004) a prime mover in the creation of public television, began working in educational radio at Louisiana State University. There he was director of broadcasting and helped build WLSU (later renamed KLSU), one of the first non-commercial FM radio stations in the south. He spent ten years in Washington, D.C. as Executive Director of the Joint Council on Educational Television (JCET), under a Ford Foundation grant. JCET served as an advocacy organization that helped get the first 50 public television stations on the air. While at JCET, Steetle worked on the FCC Third Report and Order, issued in 1951. This report tentatively set aside 209 channels, approximately 10 percent of all stations, for educational television. The FCC's Sixth Report and Order, issued in 1952, affirmed the arguments made by JCET for educational stations and expanded the number of reserved channels to 242. In 1960 Steetle moved to Oregon to become the Associate Dean of Continuing Education and Director of Education Media for the Oregon State System of Higher Education. He capped his professional career developing the Oregon Public Television Network. The collection chronicles the early history of the Joint Committee on Educational Television and Steetle's involvement in this organization.

ArchivalResource: 2.50 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1571 View