Papers of a prominent Milwaukee Polish announcer for WISN and WRJN and host of The Kuryer Polski Polish Hour. Includes scripts describing his visits to Poland, holiday broadcasts and to commemorate the deaths of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. and Robert Kennedy. Also includes correspondence, photographs and biographical information and background information on WRJN.
Repository/Collector:
Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Some print material dealing with the company's sponsorship of radio programs may be available on a limited basis to qualified researchers. All sound recordings have been donated to the Museum of Broadcasting in Chicago.
Nearly a complete run of newsletters and a flyer from the organization comprised of fans of Old Time Radio. The newsletters contain minutes of their meetings as well as membership lists and information about old time radio in Milwaukee and nationally.
Repository/Collector:
Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Records of a network of Catholic communications professionals which established the Gabriel Awards to recognize programs that "uplift and nourish the human spirit," including correspondence, newsletters, pamphlets, photographs, press releases and proceedings of general assemblies and awards banquets. Includes radio scripts and some recordings.
Repository/Collector:
Raynor Memorial Libraries, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Although most NAB activities concern the establishment of broadcasting codes and support of the industry in matters relating to government regulation, the bulk of the collection pertains to the association's research function. Includes materials on studies and surveys by the Broadcast Measurement Bureau of radio audiences and the National Opinion Research Center on public attitudes toward radio in the 1940s.
Includes correspondence, reports, clippings, speeches of president William G. Harley, files of the Office of Research and Development and of National Educational Radio (a division of the NAEB), a newsletter and a small publication file. The largest part of the collection is a subject file which documents the NAEB's board of directors, committees, conventions, conferences, seminars and workshops. Includes photographs relating to two radio programs, World Neighbors and Report From Europe, and tape recordings.
Papers of a news producer and executive with CBS, 1947-1967, and other stations. Radio related information includes CBS files containing correspondence and office memoranda to and from Fred W. Friendly, Richard S. Salant and others, news scripts, program ideas and clippings and news releases about Westin, programs he produced and CBS in general. Two scrapbooks pertain to radio programs on which he worked as a field reporter: The People Act and Nation's Nightmare of which there are 20 recorded episodes.