9XM Talking : WHA Radio and the Wisconsin Idea.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (422 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue: Voices through the Air: A Brief History of Radio -- 1. Early Wireless Experiments at the University of Wisconsin, 1909-16 -- 2. Early Broadcasts from 9XM, 1916-17 -- 3. Wartime Radio Experiments at the University of Wisconsin, 1917-18 -- 4. Telephonic Broadcasting by 9XM, 1919-20 -- 5. Regular Voice Broadcasts on 9XM, 1921 -- 6. WHA Begins, 1922-29 -- 7. WHA Comes into Its Own, 1929-30 -- 8. The WHA-WLBL Merger, 1930-31 -- 9. More Hours on the Air, 1930-33 -- 10. More Challenges from Commercial Stations -- 11. The Political Education Forum -- 12. A New Home, 1933-36 -- 13. Budget Woes and New Programs, 1935-41 -- 14. The War Years and After, 1942-47 -- 15. The FM Network -- 16. From Educational Radio to Public Radio, 1947-70 -- 17. The Era of Public Radio, 1971-78 -- 18. WPAH/WLBL, the Other State Station, 1923-51 -- 19. The Farm Program -- 20. The Homemakers' Program -- 21. The Wisconsin School of the Air -- 22. The Wisconsin College of the Air -- 23. Chapter a Day -- 24. To Today, 1979- -- Postscript: The Oldest Station in the Nation -- Appendix A: 9XM/WHA Time Line -- Appendix B: WPAH/WCP/WLBL Time Line -- Appendix C: FM Network Time Line -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Station Index.
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WHA (Radio station : Madison, Wis.)-History. Public radio-Wisconsin-History. Educational radio stations-Wisconsin-History.