Collector offered these comments in an e-mail message: There are already several archives dedicated to radio and television broadcast material across the country. Not the least of which is the archive at the University of Maryland, the National Archives, the Radio and TV Broadcast Museum in NYC, and another series of archives in Los Angeles. So what activities should be undertaken to improve preservation of past radio broadcasts? I think foremost would be tapping the radio-aircheck collector network, which is huge. Here I am talking about the home tapers and not so much the "Old-time Radio Clubs" as the Old-Time-Radio folks tend to trade in well documented material (but as individuals they may also have unique, undocumented material). The folks who trade in 1950s and more recent material have hundreds of thousands of hours of live on air recordings which do not exist in any public or private archived holding.