KOAC program, 1950. By 1950, KOAC offered a continuous 12 hours of programming on Monday through Saturday. KOAC was administered by the General Extension Division of the Oregon State System of Higher Education and was a member of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB).

Jimmie Morris, 1958. A pioneer of Oregon radio and television broadcasting, James M. Morris became fascinated with radio while a high school student. After graduating from Oregon Agricultural College in 1928 with a degree in electrical engineering, he became an OAC physics instructor and served as special events engineer for KOAC broadcasts. He was appointed full time producer-announcer in 1932 and from 1945 to 1963 served as radio program manager. When he retired in 1972, he prepared a 50th anniversary history of KOAC, The Remembered Years.

"This has been another KOAC special event!," ca. late 1950s. KOAC producers Bill Smith (left) and Les Mock (right) traveled throughout Oregon in the KOAC staff car equipped with a portable tape recorder to record special events for radio broadcast.

Anybody or anything can talk on KOAC, 1950. Arnold Ebert interviewed a cow on the the Ralph Cope farm near Langlois, Oregon. Ebert was the first to hold a joint appointment with the Extension Service (as Radio Specialist) and KOAC (as Farm Program Director). He made extensive use of the recording equipment which became available in the late 1940s and early 1950s to bring a variety of voices to KOAC listeners. Photo by R.G. Fowler, Jr.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• KOAC Radio Milestones
• Images: The 1920s
• Images: The 1930s
• Images: The 1940s
• Images: The 1950s