FM broadcasting -- Illinois -- History -- Sources.
Topic
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
A. James Ebel papers
Collection
0128-MMC-NPBA
Abstract
Albert James Ebel (1913-1998), a Nebraska broadcasting pioneer, was vice president and general manager of KOLN/KGIN-TV from 1954 to 1985 and significantly broadened the station's reach. Previously, Ebel worked as the chief engineer for station WILL at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana from 1937 to 1946. There, he designed the station's first FM transmitter. Ebel taught as an assistant professor of Engineering and did work for a variety of stations – WMBD (Peoria), WDZ...
Dates:
1941-1991; Majority of material found within 1991