Papers relating to her work in radio, television, motion pictures and theater. Over half the collection is comprised of scrapbooks, 1928-1973, containing correspondence and fan mail, clippings, programs, photographs and memorabilia. Included are materials on her frequent radio appearances on Cavalcade of America and Ceiling Unlimited.
Papers of a capital reporter and radio commentator, including correspondence, biographical material and writings for publication and broadcast. Includes CBS scripts of general news and scripts for Army Hour for which Warner was a regular commentator. Includes recordings of Army Hour and Three Star Extra.
Papers of the founder of the National Academy of Broadcasting, Inc. and a teacher of music in schools and on the radio. Includes correspondence, articles and addresses, scrapbooks, press releases, printed materials, scripts and sound recordings. The correspondence is largely of a personal nature but letters written during the 1930s occasionally display her efforts to become recognized as a pioneer in educational broadcasting. Scripts and teachers' manuals relate to her position as broadcasting director for CBS's American School of the Air. Also includes scripts and recordings for several radio series used to promote NAOB as well as other instructional materials such as "How to Speak and Write for Radio," 1944, which she developed to teach broadcasting techniques.
Papers of a broadcaster associated with WHA, Madison, WI relating chiefly to the Homemaker Program which she supervised. Includes listener correspondence, annual reports, committee minutes, 1938-1955, and a subject file containing scripts, circulars and information on program content.
Papers relate to the beginnings of educational radio broadcasting. Includes minutes, 1926-1938, of the University of Chicago Radio Committee and papers on the Rocky Mountain Radio Council, Denver, 1945-1949, the University Broadcasting Council, Chicago, 1935-1938, and the University of Chicago Roundtable, 1938-1963.
Papers of a writer of dramatic series, specials and quiz programs for radio and television. Includes scripts and drafts for Big Town and some television programs. Also includes script for "Summer is Forever" aired on the Children' s Hour.
Includes three transcription discs for The Labor Parade issued by the Radio Division of the American Federation of Labor, 1938. It is likely these recordings were distributed to local unions.
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.
Two promotional sound recordings of major news stories covered by CBS correspondents in 1957 and 1958. Among the correspondents featured are Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid, Robert Pierpoint, Edward R. Murrow, Daniel Schorr and Howard K. Smith. Other subjects or voices include Frank Zeidler, Milwaukee Braves, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Charles De Gaulle, the Cold War and changes in the Russian leadership, integration and Little Rock and Middle Eastern events.
Reports on music trends prepared by a radio program consultant for use by program managers and disc jockeys in programming. Includes bi-weekly reports, chiefly 1958-1971, record evaluations and recommended playlists, information on personnel changes among local San Francisco Bay Area radio stations and Gavin's comments on radio programming and the music industry.
Educational radio scripts distributed to local stations by a music licensing corporation. Includes sample scripts for Book Parade, The World of the Mind, and The American Story. Also includes the complete run of the sub-series A. Lincoln, 1809-1865 written by Bruce Catton, Allen Nevins, Carl Sandburg and other Lincoln scholars and some promotional materials for The World of the Mind.
Papers of an award-winning news broadcaster with WRC/WRC-TV in Washington, DC consisting chiefly of scripts of human interest stories broadcast on Emphasis, Monitor and other NBC network radio news programs and television editorials on local, national, and international news events.
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.
Sound recording of four parodies of CBS news figures and operations by Ham O'Hara. Spoofed is Walter Cronkite's D-Day re-visited interview with Dwight Eisenhower (featuring Mel Brooks), The Bird, an international satellite broadcast, I've Got a Secret, and Harry Reasoner's narration of a version of "The Night Before Christmas" entitled "Cronkiter's Christmas Carol."
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.
Includes personal and biographical files, professional and audience correspondence, speeches and writings, background material and scripts for Edward R. Murrow and the News, Report to the West and other CBS television news programs.
With the exception of his farewell remarks broadcast on the Huntley-Brinkley Report, the holdings relate entirely to radio. The two series for which coverage is most complete are his daily five-minute editorials, Perspective on the News and Emphasis: Plain Talk. The tape recordings consist of editorials prepared under the auspices of Horizon Communications Corporation following his retirement from NBC.
Four anniversary recordings made at WTMJ, Milwaukee, WI of the program celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, November 20, 1940.
The bulk of the collection consists of scripts, both radio and television, 1930-1960, with only three scripts prior to 1935. Includes scripts for special programs such as The War That Must Not Come, April 16, 1946, and for occasions on which Utley substituted for other commentators such as H. V. Kaltenbom and Joseph Harsch. Also includes scripts for dramatizations in which Utley participated or which he moderated such as the historical series entitled We Came This Way, 1944-1945, and Quiz Kids, 1946. Also includes fan mail and other correspondence. Utley broadcast his news reports and commentary over several Chicago stations, but the majority of the work originated from the NBC stations WMAQ and WNBQ, either for local or network broadcast.
Miscellaneous material, consisting of recordings of We Take You Back, a 1958 radio program with excerpts from World War II news reports and commentary by Robert Trout and Edward R. Murrow and of Calendar Days, a 1962 tribute to radio with interviews of Murrow and Hans V. Kaltenborn by Harry Reasoner.
Microfilm copies of interviews of Phillips Carlin' Hans V. Kaltenborn, Raymond F. Guy, Mark Woods and William S. Hedges compiled by the Radio Unit of the Oral History Collection of Columbia University.
Reports on radio listening by Crossley, Inc., a market research firm known for its "Crossley Ratings." The reports concern network programming, advertising in selected cities and audience composition and behavior.
Consists mainly of radio scripts, 1941-1944, for broadcasts sponsored by a labor group organized during World War II and reactivated during the Korean War to coordinate union aid to government war programs. Topics covered in the scripts include war profits, overtime duty, the draft, workers' education and labor's attitude toward the national war effort.
Consists mostly of mail from television viewers and radio listeners. Contains reactions to particular broadcasts of the Huntley-Brinkley Report, David Brinkley's Journal and other programs. Also includes papers relating to two radio programs: Emphasis and On The Hour.
Consists entirely of annotated script material for radio and television series, including, for radio, America on the Air, Cavalcade of America, Gang Busters and Now Hear This.
Consists entirely of scripts and related production information for numerous radio and television series and pilots. The majority of the scripts, many of which are annotated, pertain to the radio series The Hedda Hopper Show, The Mel Blanc Show and Let George Do It.
Tape recorded interview with Dwight "Woody" Woodward, May 15, 1953, broadcast on WKOW, Sextonville, WI concerning the reconstruction and flight of a 1916 Morse Scout World War I fighter airplane recorded at Truax Field in Madison, WI and broadcast live as part of the series The Old and the New at Truax Field.
Papers of an advertising and public relations executive instrumental in the establishment of advertising policy for radio and television. Includes correspondence, speeches and writings and a variety of advertising material, the bulk of which relates to James's employment at NBC as sales and promotion manager, 1927-1941, at MBS as vice-president in charge of advertising, promotion and research, 1946-1949, and at the A.C. Nielsen Company as vice-president in charge of new services, 1954-1971.
Papers of a music professor at the University of Wisconsin and pioneer in radio education. Contains correspondence, articles and addresses, books, reminiscences and biographical material. Includes papers relating to Journey in Music Land, a program Gordon developed and directed for WHA, 1931-1955.
Reminiscences concerning radio broadcasting during World War II by a chief of the Radio Branch of the War Department's Public Relations Bureau, 1941-1945. The recollections encompass mobilization, the Armed Forces Radio Service and a review of programs produced by the commercial networks under army auspices.
The bulk of the collection consists of annotated scripts for Edward P. Morgan and the News. Also includes opening and closing messages which reflect the views of the AFL-CIO, Morgan's sponsor, correspondence and over 100 recordings.
Recording of We Take You Back, March 13, 1958. The recording consists of excerpts from commentators' reports made from around the world on outstanding news events, ca. 1938-ca. 1945, with commentaries by Robert Trout and Murrow.
Papers of an author, journalist and radio broadcaster who specialized in coverage of Latin American affairs. The bulk of the collection consists of radio scripts and writings, many in draft form, for magazines and newspapers. The radio scripts pertain to Three Star Extra, The Other Americas, Paths to Prosperity and news broadcasts.
Papers of a journalist and writer for radio, television and theater. Majority of collection consists of scripts for radio and television. Among the best represented radio series are Best Plays, Doctor Six Gun, Five Star Matinee, Hollywood Love Story, The Marriage, My Secret Story, NBC Theatre, NBC University Theatre, Nick Carter, Woman in Love, and X Minus One.
Collection documents Tufty's newspaper career and her work in radio and television broadcasting with her own programs as well as appearances as a guest on numerous other programs and activities in several professional organizations, including the American Women in Radio and Television, the American Newspaper Women's Club and the Women's National Press Club. Contains scripts of Headlines From Washington, Tufty Topics, Panning the Press, Home and others. Also includes tape and disc recordings of her programs and other broadcasts plus personal reminiscences, biographical interviews and memorabilia.
Microfilm of sponsor's corrected copies of scripts, including commercials, preserved by Johnson's Wax, a client of the advertising agency Needham, Harper and Steers. Also mcludes scripts for the series Hap Hazard, 1941.
Includes scripts for Adventures of a Modern Mother, a dramatic series broadcast by NBC, 1940-1941, which was written by Gomme. Also includes a folder of photocopied memorabilia and correspondence.
Papers of a NBC vice-president in charge of Information. Contains correspondence, telephone logs, appointment books, speeches and reports. Includes letters and memoranda relating to NBC's development of short wave facilities, international broadcasting and planning for wartime broadcasting. Also includes speeches on newspaper-radio relations, short wave broadcasting and propaganda.
Fragmentary personal and professional papers of a New York publicist and journalist. Contains correspondence, resumes, press releases, drafts of public relations projects, newspaper clippings about his career, including press releases for NBC, 1951-1952, and station and public relations records for WNEW, 1959-1962.
Papers document Coe's work as a producer and director in the theatre, television and film. However, the collection does include recordings of the radio detective series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar in which Coe was not involved.
Papers of an attorney, career government employee and former FCC member and chairman. Includes speeches, writings, correspondence, biographical clippings and subject files relating to equal time and political broadcasting, the fairness doctrine, UHF/VHF allocations, the Legislative Oversight Subcommittee's investigations of the FCC during the 1950s and other topics.
Newsletters from an organization of collectors and fans of Vic and Sade containing news about members, collectibles and information on the program's scripts and productions.
A Wisconsin broadcasting executive, the 1958-1969 portion of the collection includes correspondence and subject files relating to Bartell's personal business ventures in the field of radio and TV. Includes some unidentified sound recordings, possibly of Bartell's radio scripts, n.d.
Includes scripts for the Morning Cheer, Bear and Magic Number programs sponsored by the Gillette Rubber Company and broadcast over WTAQ, Eau Claire, WI. Scripts include advertising for the Gillette Rubber Company, jokes, humorous sketches, and stories. Also includes a folder containing historical information about WTAQ.
Fragmentary papers of radio and television news broadcaster Gunnar Back, including biographical clippings, scripts and other writings, publicity, photographs, sound and video recordings and correspondence. Because of the fragmentary nature of the papers, the value of the collection lies primarily in the events Back covered rather than its biographical information. Includes news and entertainment scripts Back wrote for KFAB/KFOR, Lincoln, NE, WJSV, Washington, DC and for Whatever Happened To, broadcast on WTOP. Also includes recorded transcripts of Crossfire, the ABC news interview program, transcripts of Congress Today, America's Town Meeting of the Air and Americans At Work and recordings of The Lonesome Road, a radio documentary about alcoholism as well as raw tape interviews apparently used in editing the broadcast. Also includes transcripts for a Lonesome Road program dealing with venereal disease. Photographs are primarily snapshots of Back broadcasting; most are unidentified, but there are snapshots of him with some people prominent in politics and entertainment and also of Back at WJNO, FL. Also includes material related to the Officers Conference, an interview program about world affairs that was aired by the military broadcast network (AFRS?) in the 1950s.
Papers of the "Dean of American Radio Commentators" who introduced editorial analysis to radio news broadcasting. The bulk of the collection is made up of correspondence, scripts and recordings but there are also business and professional papers, book and article manuscripts, notes and scrapbooks. Radio scripts comprise a virtually complete record of his prepared broadcasts for Kaltenborn Edits the News and for a number of other series and specials. Supplementing the papers are more than 500 sound recordings of his regularly scheduled news broadcasts, chiefly 1940-1948, and other programs in which he was a participant. Correspondence includes Kaltenborn's involvement with the Association of Radio Television News Analysts, the Broadcast Pioneers, the Overseas Press Club, the Radio-Television Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Kaltenborn Foundation.
Papers of a writer, producer and director of numerous television comedies. Catalog listing notes that the collection includes "scripts for radio programs" but only identifies the Beulah Show. Other papers may only deal with television. Check with repository for more information.
Papers of an educational broadcaster associated with WHA and WHATV, Madison, WI, 1931-1968. Engel was an assistant director in charge of legislative and public relations. The collection deals exclusively with educational broadcasting and contains articles, clippings, surveys and reports. Most documentation concerns the development of WHA, particularly its early history. The balance deals with Engel's other activities in educational broadcasting with the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, the National Association of FM Broadcasters, the University of Wisconsin Radio and Television Committee and other Wisconsin educational stations.
Papers of a man who began his career with WHA in 1929 and was appointed the station's program director in 1931. McCarty originated the Wisconsin School of the Air program. For 36 years he was director of the Wisconsin State Broadcasting System and executive director of the Wisconsin Radio and Televisino Council. Papers include correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, budget material, scripts, listener letters, newsletters, organizational material for WHA-TV, State Radio Council meetings, minutes and reports, National Association for Educational Broadcasters newsletters and reports, program schedules for various educational stations and personnel files. Note: Additional collections include material relating to WHA.
Papers, primarily comprised of musical scores and parts, of a composer, arranger and conductor for radio and television and vice-president in charge of music for ABC. Also includes non radio sound recordings.
Papers of a foreign correspondent, news analyst, author and AFL-CIO radio coordinator consisting chiefly of books, articles, World War II communiques, plays, scripts for films and radio programs, speeches and over 700 tapes. Radio programs represented in the collection include John Vandercook and the News, Labor Answers Your Questions, Labor Reports to the Nation, Washington Reports to the Nation and As We See It. Also includes extensive script files for programs broadcast by the CBS West Coast Network and KMOX, St. Louis. Papers involving listener mail from the late 1940s are noteworthy for their concern with alleged communist influence in California.
A newspaper, radio and television journalist, Cassidy spent most of his career as a foreign correspondent and executive for the Associated Press, NBC and Radio Free Europe. His radio scripts form the bulk of the collection and include scripts written in Paris, 1945-1950, for Report on Europe and those written in the United States, 1953-1955, for Heart of the News, News of the World, World News Roundup and other programs.
Papers of a writer, newspaperman and Washington news commentator for NBC and ABC. Contains scripts, journals, speeches and recordings. Scripts and discs relate almost exclusively to Baukhage's regularly scheduled ABC program Baukhage Talking. Among the news events covered in the scripts are World War II, the 1944 political conventions, President Roosevelt's death, Truman's inauguration, the Nuremberg trials, the Cold War and the Berlin crisis.
Papers consist of material on Smith's career with both the ABC and CBS networks. CBS radio scripts pertain to his work as a World War II correspondent and to his postwar commentaries.
Collection documents the entire span of Rodman's career from his early days as a writer of short stories to a script writer for the broadcast media and a creator of television series. Best coverage of his broadcasting work is provided by files on United Nations Radio. Includes some unidentified tape recordings.
Papers of a playwright, writer and educator, primarily comprised of scripts for radio and plays. Radio materials include Cavalcade of America, Treasury Hour, Ford Theater, Theatre U.S.A. and soap operas such as Road of Life and Valiant Lady.
Dubbed tape recordings of four Fibber McGee and Molly shows, 1939, including segments with guest ZaSu Pitts and Harold Peary and of 24 Vic and Sade programs, November, 1943 and September, 1944.
Papers of a creator and writer of radio and television soap operas. Includes scripts by Phillips herself and by Radio Scripts, Inc., to which she was a consultant, including outlines, advertising copy and correspondence with listeners, viewers, networks and advertising agencies. Includes Another World, Brighter Day, The Guiding Light, Right to Happiness, Road of Life, Today's Children, Woman in White and many other daytime serials.
Sound recording of an interview conducted in April, 1980 by Dale Treleven of the Historical Society with Isabel Baumann, a Dane County, WI farm organization activist. Includes a discussion of Baumann's work with the series, We Say What We Think Club.
Papers of the author of the radio serial The Story of Mary Marlin. Includes a complete run of scripts of the original show, 1934-1945, of an Australian version, 1959-1960, character sketches, show music, outlines, publicity, commercials, reference material, scenarios, story summaries and synopses. Also includes personal and business papers and correspondence with substitute authors, advertising agencies, networks, lawyers and Procter and Gamble, the show's sponsor.
The collection is best for the years 1956-1967 and includes a wide variety of materials pertaining to his association with ABC as a newsman and vice-president of news, special events and public affairs, 1953-1967. Fragmentary early material includes a scrapbook on events covered by Daly as White House correspondent for WJSV, Washington, DC, 1938-1939, correspondence and scripts for CBS Is There (later known as You Are There), The Front Page, his coverage of the Italian theater during World War II and "The Sangamon," an Edgar Lee Masters radio play. There are no scripts dating from the later period covered but there are office memos, fan mail and publicity for Daly's television programs. Additional files pertain to ABC news administration and operation, outside speaking engagements, involvement with professional groups such as the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters and coverage of political conventions. Collection includes three disc recordings and 53 photographs.
Recordings of a broadcaster and editor consisting mainly of Books and Voices, a radio series moderated for Westinghouse Broadcasting Co., 1956-1957, and Progress, a series of public service interviews prepared for General Electric, 1961-1962.
Papers of a radio and television news broadcaster noted for his coverage of World War II and the United Nations. The bulk of the collection consists of scripts written for NBC, ABC, NET, CBC and the Voice of America plus speeches and writings. The scripts chiefly concern the North African theater during World War II and the development of the United Nations, 1950-1977, and were written for such programs as ABC Evening News, Issues and Answers, News Around the World, United or Not? and Army Hour. Written material is supplemented by films and recordings. There are also some letters relating to MacVane's presidency of the Association of Radio and Television News Analysts and the United Nations Correspondents Association.
Correspondence collected by Penn, a broadcast historian, concerning the early history of WHA, the radio station of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the work of physicist Earl M. Terry. Also includes an address by Terry, ca. 1925, a WHA program log, 1922-1925, and a history of the station by Harold A. Engel.
Audio recording of interviews conducted by Wingate, October 8-11, 1957, on Night Beat on WABD with Arthur V. Crowley, J. Bracken Lee, Victor Riesel, Buff Donelli, Robert Elliot Fitch, Stuart Davis, John D. Odom and Helen Sobell dealing chiefly with labor and politics.
Papers document the personal and professional activities of two radio and television personalities. Johnny Olson worked as an announcer at WTMJ, Milwaukee, 1933-1944, and WJZ, New York, 1944, before going on to emcee, with Penny as hostess, a number of radio shows, including Ladies Be Seated and Rumpus Room. Papers include scripts, correspondence, gag material and audience letters and response cards relating to Olson's radio career. The collection also includes unprocessed sound recordings of Olson's early radio program The Price ls Right.
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.
Papers of an experimental and developmental psychologist best known for his NBC program Keeping Mentally Fit and newspaper columns on psychology for the lay person.
Transcript of an interview with a public affairs director for WMAQ, the NBC owned station in Chicago. Topics discussed include the history of the station during its ownership by the "Chicago Daily News," CBS and NBC plus instructional and public service programming such as the University of Chicago Roundtable. Also covers other programs originating in Chicago such as Amos 'n' Andy.
Papers of a playwright, screenwriter and editor consisting chiefly of synopses, treatments, scenarios and scripts for Nicholson's work in theater, motion pictures and radio. Includes scripts for Cavalcade of America which Nicholson produced and Theatre Guild on the Air, a.k.a. United States Steel Hour.
The Radio files date from the late 1940s and include scripts and correspondence regarding plays and radio broadcasts on which Douglas appeared, including Prudential Family Hour of Stars, Escape and Suspense. Also includes radio adaptations of two of Douglas's films, "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" and "The Champion."
Papers of an RCA engineer consisting of a 1921 catalog of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. equipment, a booklet issued on the first anniversary of KDKA, a lecture service pamphlet on radio by S. M. Kintner, a Westinghouse engineer and several speeches by Westinghouse executives and engineers, including one by H.P. Davis, "the father of radio broadcasting."
Transcription discs of "Austin," an episode of the radio series March of Minnesota apparently broadcast on WCCO, Minneapolis. Program was a dramatized history of Austin stressing the role of the meatpacking industry and includes studio interviews with four Austin residents followed by music by the Minnesota Symphony.
Collection consists of bound and unbound trade journals and clipping scrapbooks relating to the history and development of the radio and television broadcasting industry. Includes bound "Yearbooks of Broadcasting" magazine, 1961-1962 and 1964. Also includes papers relating to the daily radio column that Codel wrote for the Radio News Bureau and which appeared in a number of newspapers across the country.
Collection includes a wide variety of printed ephemera (e.g. pamphlets, bulletins, newsletters, publicity and promotional materials, programs, directories, reports, studies and related materials) separated from the manuscript collections covering different aspects of broadcasting. Includes recordings of Dr. Crane's Radio Talks, Volume I, 1948, a collection of broadcasts by Dr. Crane, a Northwestern University psychologist, on topics concerning applied psychology for the lay person.
Includes scripts and drafts for The Crime Cases of Warden Lawes, Big Town and Big Story on radio, scripts for some television programs and other papers.
A portion of the collection includes scripts and recordings of various radio plays and documentation pertaining to various commercial recordings in which Douglas was featured.
Radio files contain scripts for Green Valley, U.S.A., It's the Navy, The Long Way Home, Men, Machines, and Victory, On the Beam, First in the Air and various United Nations Radio and public service programs. Also contains sound recordings for several of the programs and some general correspondence concerning Lampell's wartime broadcasting for the Army Air Force.
Business records of Monona Broadcasting which operated the ABC affiliate WKOW, Madison, WI, 1945-1960. Papers document the corporation's organization and operation, as well as its liquidation and sale to Midcontinent Broadcasting Company in 1960.
Contains scripts and films collected by a radio and television executive who served as media consultant for the AFL and the AFL-CIO. Included are opening and closing radio continuities, 1950-1952, for Frank Edwards and the News which states organized labor's position on the Cold War, communist subversion, the elections of 1950 and 1952 and other issues.
The Radio files contain scripts from Hinken's early career in radio, including The Grouch Club and The Magnificent Montague as well as extensive scripts and production information for the Fred Allen Show for which Hinken was head writer for seven years and the Milton Berle Show with which he was associated, 1946-1949. Also includes a sound recording of the November 25, 1945 performance of the Berle show. Bulk of collection pertains to Hinken's work in television.
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.
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.
Listed as two separate collections, the first collection features Salute to Radio, a review of the highlights in radio broadcasting history, narrated by H.V. Kaltenborn, broadcast May 15, 1956, on NBC's Recollections at 30 series celebrating the network's 30th anniversary. The second collection, done for the same Series, includes H.V. Kaltenborn's 35th anniversary in radio, April 3, 1957, and other highlights of early radio programs and personalities such as Rudy Vallee, Clark and McCulla, Lum and Abner, Al Jolson, Frances Langford, Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa, Tom Cokely, Fanny Brice, Joe Penner, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Bob Hope, Brenda and Cobina, Bob Burns and Judy Garland.
Includes CBS radio scripts of his coverage of World War II in Europe, post-war documentaries and transcripts from the CBS Rome news bureau, 1951-1953, and from The World Tonight, 1961-1965. Also includes other papers.