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First NPR President Don Quayle Dies at 84
RADIO ONLINE | Monday, April 20, 2015 |
Don Quayle, the first president of National Public Radio (NPR) has died. He was 84. His long career included both radio and TV public broadcasting. Quayle put the network's first program, "All Things Considered," on the air in 1971 and headed the network from 1970 to 1973. NPR has now grown to over 900 member stations. Utah State University, his alma mater, presented Quayle five years ago with an honorary doctorate of humane letters for his "significant contributions" to public broadcasting.
NPR's Susan Stamberg said, "Don Quayle gave me my first radio job. It was the early '60s and he was head of the Educational Radio Network -- the precursor of NPR -- a skinny little network of 12 East Coast stations that developed a daily drive-time news show. He hired me to help produce it. When this national network arose, he was an obvious choice to run it."
She continued, "Don was principled, decent and astute. In the euphoric tumult of our first years, he navigated the choppy seas of building a public radio system. He knew NPR had to serve you, our listeners, above the competing needs of stations, boards and funders."
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