Robert H. Lochte, Ph.D.
Department of Journalism and Mass Communications
Murray State University,  Murray KY 42071
phone 270 762 3172  Fax 270 762 3172 E-mail bob.lochte@murraystate.edu
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-present
Head of Radio-Television major, 1988-2003
Director of TV Studios, FY 1990, 1992-1997
1983 - 1988, WETO TV39, Greeneville, TN 
Co-Owner, General Manager and Program Director
1978 - 1983, WMGL FM, Pulaski, TN 
Co-Owner, General Manager and Program Director
1975 - 1978, WTCI TV45, Chattanooga, TN 
Producer/Director
1974 - 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 Production
  • JMC 336, Scriptwriting
  • JMC 369, Advanced Audio Production
  • JMC 486, Media Production Technique
Graduate Courses 
  • JMC 520, Radio and Television Programming
  • JMC 558, New Media Technologies
  • JMC 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