The collection consists primarily of audio tapes of two radio programs produced by Bailey Broadcasting Services: The Hip Hop Countdown & Report (1991-1998) and RadioScope: The Entertainment Magazine of the Air (1990-1996). Press releases for RadioScope broadcasts are also included.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Text document, Photographic print, and Photographic negative
These materials comprise a thirteen-part radio series of public service broadcasts produced by Sam Chase for WLIB radio in New York in cooperation with Newsweek Magazine.
Production materials documenting Smithsonian's thirteen-part program on the role of radio in transforming the African American community in the twentieth century. The program was produced in 1996 by Jacquie Gales Webb for Smithsonian Productions, with assistance from the AAAMC. The collection contains over 400 hours of interviews and historical aircheck tapes in addition to articles, research files, program scripts, and transcripts. The audio interviews feature conversations with over 150 well-known disc jockeys, radio professionals, record company executives, journalists, and scholars. The historical airchecks include station identifications and jingles, radio interviews with prominent Black figures, coverage of historical events, and programs highlighting or influenced by the contributions of Black performers, disc jockeys, and other important persons in radio.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape, Data cartridge, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Text document, and Data disk (floppy disk)
Extent:
4.3 linear feet (10 boxes) + 297 audiocassettes (DAT : digital, stereo), 168 audiocassettes (analog), 9 8mm data cartridges, 7 audio discs (CD-R), 3 data disks (1.44 MB floppies)
Consists of interviews of Indiana's early broadcasters and papers relating to the preparation of a book-length manuscript on the state's broadcast pioneers. Includes tapes and transcripts of 26 Indiana pioneer broadcasters, covering topics in Hoosier broadcasting from 1926-mid-l990s.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts and Visual Collections Department, William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Contains papers, including scripts for the Hoagy Carmichael Show, 1945, and Columbia Broadcasting System Presents Hoagy Carmichael, 1947-1948, memorabilia and sound recordings.
The collection consists of personal papers, photographs, and a video documenting the career Ed Castleberry, a pioneering black radio disc jockey and newscaster.
Content types:
Two-dimensional moving image, Still image, and Text
Formats:
VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Photographic print, and Text document
Extent:
1 document case (.25 linear feet), including 26 photographs and 1 videocassette (VHS)
Clarence Manion (1896-1979) was Dean of the Law School at the University of Notre Dame. He started the Manion Forum after his retirement from the University. The collection consists of reel-to-reel and cassette audio recordings (1954-1979) of the Manion Forum radio program (numbered 1-1294) and Manion Forum Footnotes (numbered 1-1850). It was a radio show with political comments on current events by Clarence Manion and / or his guests. Among the guests were Senator Joseph McCarthy, Strom Thurmond, Admiral John S. McCain, Sr., Barry Goldwater, Fred C. Koch, Eddie Rickenbacker, Craig Hosmer, Gerhart Niemeyer, Bonner Fellers, Daniel Lyons, SJ and others.
Content types:
Spoken word and Text
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, and Text document
Black radio photograph collection documenting events and personnel, including photos with rhythm and blues musicians, at Houston station KCOH in the 1960s and 1970s. Photographs were copied from the personal collection of Gardner. Accompanied by a transcription of an interview with Gardner which includes descriptions of each photograph.
Content types:
Still image
Formats:
Photographic print and Photographic negative
Extent:
12 photographs : black & white ; 8 x 10 in. + 11 negatives (black & white : 4 x 5 in.)