Michael Spillman - Encyclopedia of Indianapolis

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Broadcasting Controversies

Radio and television broadcast licenses, issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), are valuable business properties. Therefore, choosing the recipient… Read More »Broadcasting Controversies

Cable Television

Cable television sends and receives television signals through coaxial cable instead of over the air. A master antenna or satellite… Read More »Cable Television

Educational and Public Broadcasting

Early in the development of radio, many groups and individuals realized the value of broadcasting for educational and non-commercial purposes.… Read More »Educational and Public Broadcasting

Frank Allyn Edwards

Frank Allyn Edwards

(Aug 4, 1908-June 23, 1967). Frank Allyn Edwards was born in Mattoon, Illinois, and grew up in Sullivan, Illinois, and… Read More »Frank Allyn Edwards

Charles Bruce McConnell

Charles Bruce McConnell

(Sept. 26, 1902-Jan. 31, 1976). Born in Scipio, Jennings County, Indiana, McConnell lived in Indianapolis for more than 50 years.… Read More »Charles Bruce McConnell

Religious Broadcasting

Religious programs were part of the broadcast schedules of many of the country’s first radio stations. Locally, one of the… Read More »Religious Broadcasting

Sports Broadcasting

Sports Broadcasting

Indianapolis broadcasting and sports have been linked since the early 1920s. In 1922 stations and broadcast reports on the ,… Read More »Sports Broadcasting

The second independent commercial FM station in the city, WAIV went on the air in 1961 from studios in the… Read More »WAIV

WAJC was the city’s first nonprofit educational radio station and also its first permanent FM station. Licensed to the Arthur… Read More »WAJC

Formerly WISH AM-FM, WIFE was purchased by Omaha radio owner Don Burden’s Star Stations in 1963. Operating at 1310 AM… Read More »WIFE

Martin Risser Williams

(Apr. 12, 1905-Dec 17, 1986). Martin Risser Williams was born in Cambridge City, Indiana, and built an amateur radio station… Read More »Martin Risser Williams

WNAP-FM started the movement of young Circle City listeners to the FM dial when it aired in July 1968. Indianapolis-based… Read More »WNAP

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