"Many of these reel to reels and the 78s are segments, not actual broadcast recordings of lectures and recorded events. I have recordings of the events/interviews and stock background music but not the production pieces as they were aired from what I can discern."
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and Reel-to-reel
Radio programs, court dramatizations, advertisements, and other segments used in the Fiorani radio broadcasts in the Scranton, Pa. area (presumably including WPTS, which Fiorani owned).
Campaign spots, "H-Bomb Radio Spots," WNEW, Clifton Utley, Mrs. Edison Dick, Edward R. Murrow ("This I Believe"), "The National Purpose," Billy Graham, Jack Webster, Carl Sandburg, John Gardner, Clinton Rossiter, Albert Wohlstetter, Walter Lippmann
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, and Audiocassette
Repository/Collector:
Princeton University Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections
"Russian War Relief Program," from 10/25/41 (accruing to the label, it apparently aired from 8:05 to 8:30) (3 discs) - "Address by James F. O'Neill, National Commander of the American Legion," from 1/6/48 (2 discs) - "The Rock, Story of Morton Sobell" (1 disc) - "You on Trial" (8 discs) - Testimony from the House Unamerican Activities Committee (Adrian Scott, Edward Dmytrik, Sam Ornitz) - "Voices of Resistance" (2 discs) and "New Voices of Resistance" (1 disc) - "National Mobilization for Human Needs" (1 disc)
Recordings entered for Peabody Awards consideration from 1940 to the present day. Programs come in all genres and are locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally produced.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), CD, Digital file (.WAV), and Digital file (.MP3)
Extent:
19000 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Air checks, sports, news, political coverage, local DJs, local music, station IDs/jingles, and local commercials from stations WKBW, WBEN, WINE, WHSO, WEBR, and WGR, from 1950s-1980
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, CD, MiniDisc, External drive, Website, VHS (audio), Betacam SP, 1, 2, and 3/4 in videotape, DVC pro tapes, and DVD