Robert H. Lochte, Ph.D.
Department of Journalism and
Mass Communications
Murray State University,
Murray KY 42071
phone 270-***-**** Fax
270-***-**** E-mail ***.******@***********.***
HOME PAGE http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/bob.lochte/1stpage.htm
Accepting 1998 Barnhardt Prize for Faculty
Achievement
from Dean Ted Wendt (l.), College of Fine
Arts and Communication
DEGREES CONFERRED
1987 University of
Tennessee Knoxville, TN
Ph.D., Mass Communication Research
1974 Columbia College Los Angeles, CA
MA, Broadcasting
1972 Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME
AB, English Literature
WORK EXPERIENCE
1988 - Present, Murray
State University, Murray, KY Professor (tenured 1992)Director of Graduate Studies, 2003-presentHead of Radio-Television major,
1988-2003Director of TV Studios, FY 1990,
199*-******** - 1988, WETO TV39, Greeneville, TN Co-Owner, General Manager and Program
Director1978 - 1983, WMGL FM, Pulaski, TN Co-Owner, General Manager and Program
Director1975 - 1978, WTCI TV45, Chattanooga, TN Producer/Director1974 - 1975, Beverly Hills Unified School District,
Beverly Hills, CA Supervisor of Television Operations
PUBLICATIONS
Articles on Bob and
Ray, Early Wireless, and the King Biscuit Flower Hour for the Encyclopedia
of Radio, Chicago IL: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, in press
US Public Radio: What -- and Whom -- is it
For? chapter in the forthcoming book More Than a Music Box: Radio in
a Multi Media World. Oxford UK: Bergahn Books, in press.
Radio Broadcast Describes Martians Invading
New Jersey in Old News, October 2002.
Review of The Bizarre Careers of John R.
Brinkley in the Journal of Radio Studies, Winter 2002.
Kentucky Farmer Invents Wireless Telephone!
But Was It Radio? Facts and Folklore About Nathan Stubblefield.
September 2001, Murray KY: All About Wireless.
Murray s First Telephone System, in Journal
of Business and Public Affairs, December, 2001.
"Nathan B. Stubblefield," in the Encyclopedia
of U.S. Popular Culture, 2001
Articles on Bob and Ray, Early Wireless, and
the King Biscuit Flower Hour for the Encyclopedia of Radio, Chicago
IL: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, in press
"America's First Wireless Telephone," in American
Heritage of Invention and Technology, Summer, 2000
"Invention and Innovation of Early Radio Technology,"
in the Journal of Radio Studies, Spring, 2000
"Earthquake Shakes Mississippi River Valley,"
in Old News, October, 1999
"Murray's Near Miss for National Monument,"
in Paducah Life, July/August, 1999
"Samuel F.B. Morse Invents Underwater Telegraph
that Works Without Wires," in Old News, July-Aug., 1999
"Reducing the Risk: Woods, Phelps, and Edison
and the Railway Telegraph," in Timeline, the quarterly journal of
the Ohio Historical Society, Nov.-Dec., 1998
Review of the Historical Dictionary of American
Radio in the
Journal of Radio Studies, Fall, 1998
"The Mysterious Mr. Stubblefield," in Back
Home in Kentucky magazine, January/February, 1998
Articles on Alexander Graham Bell, Induction
Wireless, Thomas Edison, and Samuel F.B. Morse in the Historical Dictionary
of American Radio, Greenwood Press, 1998
Editor, Signals, the quarterly magazine
of the National Broadcasting Society, 1995-1997
Screenwriter and Director, Mailbox Vandals,
public service announcement for the U.S. Postal Service, 1997
"The Use of 'Person-on-the-Street' Interviews
In Local Television News,"
Feedback, Winter, 1996 (co-author John
Dillon)
"Lives of a Cell," in Inc. Technology
magazine, November, 1996
Screenwriter and Associate Producer, Crazy
Nate and His Wireless Telephone: The Life and Legend of Nathan B. Stubblefield,
documentary for Kentucky Educational Television, 1996
Contributing Commentator, WKMS FM, 1995- present
"The Teleconference Center," in Design of
Communication and Learning Environments. Diane Gayeski, ed., Educational
Technology Publications, 1995
Interactive Television and Instruction:
A Guide to Technology, Technique, Facilities Design, and Classroom Management.
Educational Technology Publications, 1993
"Lessons Learned from Two Years of Teaching
by Television," Teleconferencing News, Sept.-Oct., 1992
"College Student Attitudes about Interactive
Television: An Interdisciplinary Study," Journal of Interactive Television.
1992
Editor, Journal of Interactive Television.
1992
"Who the Heck Was Nathan B. Stubblefield Anyway?"
Signals,
February, 1992
"An Evaluation Design for Technology Utilization
in Multidisciplinary Distance Education Projects," Proceedings of the
George Mason University Ninth Annual Conference on Non-traditional And
Interdisciplinary Programs, 1991 (co-authors Viola Miller and Mary
Boaz)
"Evaluating Distance Education," Humanities
and Technologies Review, 1991
"Preparing a Complementary Curriculum for Exchange
Students," Feedback, Fall, 1990 (co-author Andrew Crisell)
"An Audio-Video Exercise for Public Relations
Students," Teaching Public Relations, 1990 (co-author Sheila Crifasi)
Reviews of Communication Technology: The
New Media in Society and Technology and Communication Behavior
in Humanities and Technology Review, 1989
"Monday Memo: A Broadcasting Employment Commentary,"
Broadcasting
(now Broadcasting and Cable), Aug. 21, 1989
"A Channel Repertoire for TVRO Satellite Viewers,"
Journal
of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Winter, 1989 (co-author John
Warren)
AWARDS AND HONORS
Member of Editorial
Board, Journal of Radio Studies, 2000-present
Visiting Research Fellowship, National Museum
of American History, Smithsonian Institution, February, 1999
Barnhardt Prize for Faculty Achievement, College
of Fine Arts and Communication, Murray State University, 1998
Winner, Research Paper Competition, History
Division, Broadcast Education Association, 1996 and 1998
Best Video Documentary and Script, Professional
Division, National Broadcasting Society, for Crazy Nate and His Wireless
Telephone, 1997
Best PSA/Commercial, Professional Division,
National Broadcasting Society, for Mailbox Vandals, 1997
Summer Faculty Development Grant, College of
Fine Arts and Communication, for research at the Library of Congress and
the National Archives, 1997
Special Grant from the National Association
of Broadcasters to display 1892 wireless equipment at the 1992 Radio Show,
New Orleans
PRESENTATIONS
Public Radio in the
US. Invited presentation, Broadcast and Internet Radio Division, Broadcast
Education Association, April 2002. Also panel chair for session on The
Origins and Power of Public Radio: A Cross-Cultural Study.
A Favorable Coincidence: US Public Radio in
the 1970s. Invited presentation, Radio Division, Popular Culture Association
Annual Conference, March 2002. Also panel chair for session on Community
Radio.
Participating author, Southern Kentucky Festival
of Books. Bowling Green KY. April 2002 and the Kentucky Book Fair, Frankfort
KY, November 2002.
"Then and Now: Telecommunications Infrastructure
in West Kentucky of the 19th and 21st Centuries." Invited presentation,
Kentucky-Tennessee Best Practices Business Faculty Conference, Western
Kentucky University. February 2002.
What We Know and Think We Know About Nathan
Stubblefield. Invited presentation, Evenings at the Library series, McCracken
County Public Library, Paducah. December 2001
How Murray, Kentucky Almost Became the Birthplace
of Radio. Invited presentation at the Popular Culture Association Annual
Conference, April 2001
"From Marconi to Microsoft: Marketing Media
Technology." Invited presentation at the Popular Culture Association 2000
Annual Conference, April, 2000
"Teaching on the Internet," KHECC, Lake Barkley
Lodge, 1998
"The Story of the Railroad Telegraph, or How
Granville Woods, Lucius Phelps, and Thomas Edison Almost Invented Radio,"
Broadcast Education Association, 1998 [BEA Award, Best Research Paper,
History Division]
"New Tech, Old Hype: the Promotion of Fiber
Optics at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and Electric Light at the 1893 Chicago
World's Fair," Popular Culture Association Conference, 1998
"The Radio Bibliography Project," Popular Culture
Association Conference, 1997
"Where Did They Go Wrong?: American Wireless
Inventors of the 19th Century," Broadcast Education Association,
1996 [BEA Award, Best Research Paper, History Division]
"Inventors, Cranks and Hare-Brained Schemes:
American Wireless Inventors of the 19th Century," Popular Culture
Association Conference, 1996
"What You Think: The Use of Non-Representative
Polling in Local Television News," Midwest Association for Public Opinion
Research, 1995 (co-author John Dillon)
"A Common Sense Approach to Planning for New
Media Technologies," Popular Culture Association Conference, 1995
"Future Schlock: Media Technologies in Woody
Allen's Sleeper," Popular Culture Association Conference, 1994
"Nathan B. Stubblefield: Kentucky's First Broadcaster,"
Broadcast Education Association, 1993 (co-author Bob McGaughey)
"Interactive Multimedia: The Human Variables,
" Popular Culture Association Conference, 1993
"Nathan B. Stubblefield's Wireless Telephones,
" an exhibit, demonstration and presentation at Murray State University,
Popular Culture Association Conference, National Broadcasting Society Convention,
and the National Association of Broadcasters Radio Show, all 1992, now
a permanent exhibit at the Wrather West Kentucky Museum (co-author Larry
Albert)
"The Mysterious Mr. Stubblefield," Humanities
and Technology Association Conference, 1991
"Evaluating Distance Education," George Mason
University Conference on Non-Traditional and Interdisciplinary Programs,
1991 (co-authors Viola Miller and Mary Boaz)
"Did Nathan Stubblefield Really Invent Radio?"
Popular Culture Association Conference, 1991
"Who's Listening to America's Small Town Radio
Stations?" National Association of Broadcasters Radio Show, 1990 (co-author
John Dillon)
"American Television Programming on European
Direct Broadcasting Satellites, " Popular Culture Association Conference,
1990
"Direct Broadcast Satellites, Europe, 1989,"
Humanities and Technology Association Conference, 1990
"A Brief History of Satellite Delivered Television
in the United States," Popular Culture Association Conference, 1989
"Evaluating Distance Education," Humanities
and Technology Association Conference, 1989
"From Industry to Academia: Readjustment Blues,"
The Television Programming Conference, 1989
"How a New Minimum Wage Will Affect Kentucky
Broadcasters," Kentucky Broadcasters Association Convention, 1989
CURRICULUM RESPONSIBILITIES
Undergraduate Courses JMC 270, Audio - Video ProductionJMC 336, ScriptwritingJMC 369, Advanced Audio ProductionJMC 486, Media Production TechniqueGraduate Courses JMC 520, Radio and Television ProgrammingJMC 558, New Media TechnologiesJMC 648, Media Economics
UNIVERSITY AND
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Director of Graduate
Studies and adviser to 59 Master's students
Department Committees: Accreditation, Assessment,
Undergraduate Curriculum, Graduate Curriculum, Position Searches, Tenure
and Promotion (chair)
College Committees: Promotion ; Academic Council
Representative and chair, Graduate Studies Committee; Position Searches
University Committees: ACE, Regensburg Exchange,
University of Sunderland Exchange (Chair)
Captain, Henry County TN Roads Scholars Team
Treasurer, MSU Faculty Club
Member of the American Culture Association;
Broadcast Education Association ( Murray State Representative); National
Broadcasting Society, Professional Division
Accredited Correspondent, Broadcasting and
Cable magazine