Format: Reel-to-reel and Digital tape (DAT, DCC) - RPTF/ARSC Sound Collections Database Search Results

Description:: News + public affairs shows (including coverage of Vietnam War protests + student takeover of campus administration building), freeform music shows, and "Film" and video interviews with former station workers. Additional documentation includes runs of station program guides. Dates pick up in 60s and run through 70s and beyond.
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Film, Videotape, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), and CD
Repository/Collector:: Noa Eshkar

Description:: The collection consists of materials related to radio stations and television stations in the United States and Mexico, 1930-2005. Materials include program guides, radio playlists, station newsletters, promotional materials, newspaper and magazine articles, station-produced publications, correspondence, press releases, and about 56 press release photographs from KBBQ in Burbank, Calif. Some KBBQ photographs depict country music recording artists, including Lynn Anderson, Eddy Arnold, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Dean, Merle Haggard, Lee Hazlewood, Ferlin Husky, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Lindsey, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Ray Price, Jeannie C. Riley, Tex Ritter, Nancy Sinatra, Hank Thompson, Sheb Wooley, and Tammy Wynette; Hollywood tailor Nudie Cohn; and actor Andy Griffith. Station publications include about 150 issues of Stand By! from WLS in Chicago, Ill., from the 1930s and 1940s. There is also material relating to the Southern Baptists Radio-Television Commission.
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Cylinder, Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, 8-Track, Audiocassette, Film, Videotape, and Digital tape (DAT, DCC)
Extent:: There are 1900 items in the Radio and Television collection, but not all are recordings. There are also recordings housed outside the radio and television collection.
Repository/Collector:: Southern Folklife Collection
Online finding aid:: View on www2.lib.unc.edu

Description:: Wide-ranging collection spanning 1928-70s and beyond. Holdings include local programming from stations throughout the country, including WBAI, WCBS, WNEW, WRCA, WMCA, WRVA, WNWK, WABC, WWL, WNEW, WOR, WHN, WQXR, WNYC, WBRC, WBRD, WBYN, WCAU, WCKY, WOL, WCOI, WEA, WFUN, WGAR, WIIN, WIFE, WINS, WJZ, WJVA, WKIX, WKLO, WLEA, WLOD, WLS, WXRK, WOKO, WONE, WPLI, WQAM, WQUA, WSAF, WTAN, WTYC, WTRY, KFOX, KMET, KABC, KPFK, KPHO, KRLA, KLSX, KROC, Pacifica. Content includes news coverage, interviews, classical and popular music, drama, sports, non-English language programming, etc. Personalities include later-nationally famous hosts and DJs and hosts such as Bob Fass, Dr. Demento, Casey Kasem, Alan Freed, Bob Crane, Arthur Godfrey, among others.
Content types:: Sounds
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Videotape, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), and CD
Extent:: 3,300+
Repository/Collector:: The Paley Center for Media
Online finding aid:: View on www.paleycenter.org

Description:: 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
Online finding aid:: View on www.libs.uga.edu

Description:: Way too numerous to list.
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Cylinder, Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), CD, MiniDisc, External drive, and Website
Extent:: 34,290 CDs; 19,873 1/4 inch audio tape; 14,084 broadcast wav files; 8,252 DATs; 6,035 x-WAV audio files; 3,887 Beta PCM files; 2,973 audio compact cassettes; 2,969 minidiscs; 765 VHS tapes
Repository/Collector:: WNYC New York Public Radio Archive

Description:: The WFCR Collection contains nearly 4,500 reel to reel recordings of locally-produced radio programs, reflecting over fifty years of the cultural and intellectual life of western Massachusetts. Drawing upon the talents of the faculty and students of the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and UMass Amherst), the collection offers a remarkable breadth of content, ranging from public affairs to community and national news, cultural programming, childrens programming, news and current events, scholarly lectures, classical music, and jazz.
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Reel-to-reel and Digital tape (DAT, DCC)
Extent:: 462 linear feet
Repository/Collector:: UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
Online finding aid:: View on scua.library.umass.edu

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