Library of American Broadcasting Honors Eberly

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

The Library of American Broadcasting has created the Philip Eberly Memorial Oral History Fund in honor of the former Susquehanna Communications station executive, educator author, and freelance writer who died Aug. 2.

Eberly worked for the library in the early 1990's collecting "hundreds" of oral histories for its archives at the University of Maryland in College Park.

Eberly held varoius sales and management posts with Susquehanna, including at its WSBA York, Pa., and was also a corporate VP. His freelance writing included for the New York Times, Washington Post, and B&C.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.