Entertainment-Education (E-E)
The innovative strategy used and taught to others by Morgan in creating live radio programs was based in entertainment-education (e-e), long before PBS began creating content to “educate, inform, and inspire.” (pbs.org)
The concept of e-e did not come into existence until the latter half of the 20th century and is defined as, “the process of purposely designing and implementing a media message both to entertain and to educate, in order to increase audience members’ knowledge about an educational issue, create favorable attitudes, and change overt behavior” (Singhal & Rogers, 1999; Brown & Fraser, 2003).
The strategy Morgan taught in his annual radio workshops was ahead of its time and is conceivably the foundation for radio programs in other colleges and universities.
Shown below are all of the programs created by the Hoosier Schoolmaster of the Air and his students.
To explore, click on a decade, and then a specific year to see the shows that debuted during that year. Some programs were only broadcast for a semester, while others, like the Story Princess of the Music Box and the Peter Rabbit News Service, lasted for many years.
Teachers College Hour
Adventures in Lieterature
American Yesterdays Series
Explorations in Science Series
Music Appreciation Series
The Wabash Valley High School Series
Sportscasting
Indiana State Teachers College Variety Show
The Open Forum
American Education Week Series
The Placement Series
Annual Radio Workshop Broadcast (Dedication Broadcast)
Parents and Teachers Speak
Terre Haute Town Meeting of the Air
Spelling Bea
State Fair Shows
The Road West Series
Get It Off Your Chest (Student Forum)
Musical Spotlight
Question and Answer
Y.M.C.A. Broadcasts
Music Appreciation Hour
Student Forum Series
Teachers College Parade
Story Princess of the Music Box (Elementary Series)
Talent on Parade
We, The Pupils, Speak
News from the Four Corners of the Earth
Reading and Radio
The Messiah
Guidance Conference
Concert Band (Spring Concert)
Posture Week
Verse Speaking Choir
Laboratory School P.T.A.
Summer Speech Series
Wiley High School Pep Concert
Gerstmeyer High School Pep Concert
Extension Classes
Eating for Oomph
Victory Series
Rubinoff and his Violin
Wabash Valley Music Series
Wabash Valley Guidance Conference
Band Concert
Piano Duo
Garfield High School Chorus
Federated Clubs Meeting (Rabi Taxey)
For Parents
Guidance Series
Inter-American Series
Marimba Melodies
Piano Concert
Places in the News
Reading for You
Science Series
Seeds of War
Frank Buck--Personal Interview
Navy WTS Interviews
Army and Navy CPT Interviews
George Field Memorial Day Broadcast
National Book Week Observance
Wabash Valley Teachers Institute Forum
Piano Melodies
The Sailor Sings
V-5 Interviews
Armistice Day Forum
Honorary Music Sorority
Inter-American Day
V-12 Piano with George Daniels, A.S.
V-12 Quartette
Roving Reporter
What's Cookin'?
Nutrition Class
Fire Prevention Week
Interview--Dr. Bienvendo Santos
Department of Public Relations
Commonwealth of the Phillipines
Linton Extension Class
Special Commerce Broadcast
Music with George Tade
V-12 Dance Band
Special Education Workshop Interviews
The Constitution
V-12 Band
Community Chest Programs
Forensic Festival
Merom Speaks! (A forum on Community Problems)
Biblicfile
Prelude to Polonaise
Clinton Extension Class
Piano Melodies
Speech Correction Conference
Visit to a Leper Colony
Geography, Science, English, and History
Your College, A Community Service
Weather Analysis
Sigma Alpha Iota
Air Edition of the Indiana Statesman
Variety Time
Variety of Special Individual Broadcasts (18)
Prelude to Dreams
Patriotic Holidays
Peter Rabbit News Service
Across the Registrar's Desk
Choral Music
WBOW Recognition Service
Community Chest
Women's Department Club of Terre Haute
Cancer Drive
State Conference of College Teachers of Speech Demonstration
A Farewell to Seniors
DePauw University over WIRE
Information on Late Books
Suggestions for Worthwhile Hobbies
Peter Andi, D. P.
WTTV Inauguration Transcription Broadcast
Stairway to the Stars
Visitors from Afar
Gateway to Ideas
Home Economics for You
Words on the Weather
Meet The New Teacher
Science
Very little remains of the 9,000+ live student programs Morgan recorded. Much of his work, including History in the Making, has been lost or destroyed. This is not an uncommon occurence.
Fortunately, the Radio Preservation Task Force, a project of the Library of Congress is working diligently to preserve what remains of America’s sound recording history. To read more about what they are doing, visit their website at https://radiopreservation.org