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9XM Talking: WHA Radio and the Wisconsin Idea
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Journalism History
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July 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Journalism History Summer 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Davidson, Randall. 9XM Talking: WHA Radio and the Wisconsin Idea. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. 405 pp. $34.95.
"As an industry, broadcast radio has been a mediocre steward of its history," Randall Davidson notes near the beginning of 9XM Talking: WHA Radio and the Wisconsin Idea. Happily, he goes on to note, Wisconsin's WHA has been an exception, making available to researchers a vast amount of historical data on the station's formative years. Thus, Davidson, currently the chief announcer and "unofficial historian" of Wisconsin Public Radio, attempts in 9XM Talking to do his part to bring this archival material to a wider audience.
He begins at the beginning - before the ...