The collection offers representative coverage of operations in advertising, public relations, research, sales, news and public affairs broadcasting from the 1930s through the 1950s. Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, logs, scripts, promotional material, publications, scenic designs, photographs, a few production files and a library of scripts and recordings. Limited legal and financial records. The finding aid has been split into 15 smaller documents. To get all fifteen, search for "National Broadcasting Company" as a Collection Author. Most radio program information is in Part 4 for which there is a detailed online finding aid. At the very end of the finding aid, there is an index of correspondents and of scripts. The scripts are arranged by genre and include the program name, dates, and box and folder number in which they appear. One of the categories is "commemorative programs." Most, but not all, of the programs are represented by single scripts.
Tape recordings and transcriptions of a series of documentary programs produced in 1951 by WHA concerning various communities in Wisconsin, including interviews with residents, historical background and profiles of the current communities.
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.
Records of the market research firm specializing in radio and television audience measurement. The collection consists primarily of Hooperatings, reports on radio listening on major network stations in selected U.S. cities, 1936-1947. Also includes newsletters, pamphlets and related material produced by the firm for its subscribers.
Papers of an actor, producer and writer of Happy Hollow, a CBS dramatic serial which originated at KMBC, Kansas City, MO. Includes two 1936 scripts and promotional materials.
Reports of the market research firm (1923-) best known for its ratings of network radio and television programs. Consists primarily of Nielsen Radio Indexes, 1943-1957, and Nielsen Television Indexes, 1951-1953, which summarize and analyze Nielsen's bi-weekly reports and includes several types of audience measurements. Also includes miscellaneous reports on CBS sustaining programs, 1943, D-Day listening, 1944, and the purchasing habits of television viewers, 1957.
Includes radio and television scripts, 1940s-1970, aired on NBC, CBS and BBC, including Background, Meaning of the News and Report from Washington. Also includes correspondence. Material reflects Harsch's varying assignments from coverage of the Harlan trial in Kentucky to the London Naval Conference, Germany and the Pacific theater during World War II and post-war foreign affairs responsibilities in London and Washington, D.C.
Brief recollections of a broadcasting executive, primarily concerning sports broadcasting by WRAW, Reading, PA in 1929 by means of Western Union wire reports.
One of the original commissioners of the Federal Radio Commission, the papers include scripts for Caldwell's weekly program Radio Magic, 1939-1942, and other broadcasts.