A. James Ebel papers

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A. James Ebel papers

1941-1991 (majority 1991)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1563

From 1937 to 1946, A. James Ebel worked as the chief engineer for station WILL at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. There, he designed the station's first FM transmitter while he was the executive secretary of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. Ebel then taught as an assistant professor of Engineering, and worked for a variety of stations--WMBD (Peoria), KOLN-TV/KGIN-TV (Nebraska), WDZ (Tuscola-Decatur), and KMEG-TV (Iowa). During the sixties, his career focused more on satellite transmission. In 1967, he chaired the CBS Affiliates Satellite Transmission Committee, which sought to achieve satellite interconnection between networks and affiliates for improved cost-efficiency and picture quality. Then, in 1970, he headed a similar committee that included all three networks. In addition, Ebel participated as a delegate to three World Administrative Radio Conferences in Geneva, Switzerland in 1971, 1977 and 1988. In 1986, he worked on protection of encryption of network programs fed to a station by means of fixed service satellites and chaired the New Technology Committee for the ABC, CBS, and NBC Network Affiliates. The collection contains articles recounting the history of FM development and an autobiographical essay reflecting on the early history of educational broadcasting.

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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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Ebel, A. James

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Engineer and broadcasting executive A. James Ebel was born in Waterloo, Iowa on May 30, 1913 and attended Iowa State Teacher's College and the State University of Iowa where he graduated with a B.A. in Math and Physics in 1937. His long career in public broadcasting started in 1937 when he moved with his wife and the first of their four children to Indiana to work part time for radio station WBAA and to start a masters degree at Purdue. One day, after working at the station only a ...

WILL (Radio/television station : Urbana, Ill.)

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