Brown discusses format changes at WOR after World War II, the relationship between WOR and the Mutual Network, union work rules and their effect on network news coverage, the philosophy and practice of news coverage at WOR, the move from writer to manager of news operations, the organization of network personnel, radio personalities, including Bob and Ray and Marianne Taylor-Young, program innovations, programming cutbacks and remote reporting .
Contains transcription discs of programs Brown produced or directed plus other CBS programs. Collection includes: You Are There (a.k.a. CBS Is There), The Thin Man, Flash Gordon, Inner Sanctum, Suspense, Mystery Theatre, CBS Radio Workshop, Backstage Wife, Mr. Chameleon, Inspector Brooks, Young Widder Brown, Stella Dallas and Inspector Hawkes and Son. An inventory of the collection is available in the Media Department.
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia
Contains mostly scripts for various radio and television programs, 1940-1967, including scripts of his news programs broadcast over the MBS. Also contains some manuscripts, diaries, scrapbooks, audio recordings, photographs and correspondence, including letters dealing with Brown's difficulties with networks and sponsors.
Publicity material relating to Brown, considered the dean of religious broadcasting, whose weekly program, Radio Chapel Service, was broadcast from WOW, Omaha, NE.