Ralph W. Steetle Papers

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Ralph W. Steetle Papers

1942-1981 (majority 1950-1958)

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

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.

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Ralph W. Steetle was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1912. He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and attended schools there, graduating from Collinwood High School in 1930. Steetle then enrolled in Cleveland State University's cooperative education plan studying electrical engineering. In 1934, he transferred to Louisiana State University, and graduated in 1936 with a major in radio broadcasting. He continued his studies at Louisiana State, receiving a master's degree in linguistics in ...

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