Includes correspondence, financial records, subject files, printed materials, yearbooks, clippings and legal documents relating to Craney's career as a pioneer in Montana radio broadcasting, founder of the Pacific Northwest Broadcasting and owner of the radio stations with the "XL" call letters in Spokane, Portland, Butte, Bozeman and Missoula and the Z Bar network.
The Museum has a collection of 85,000 hours of television and radio programming, including 4,000 radio programs. The web site maintains an online searchable database and the staff of the Museum's archives also responds to research requests.
The Museum maintains a large audio collection of radio programs that can be listened to on site. Program holdings cannot be searched online but the research staff will respond to individual queries. The New York City location maintains the main archive. If a program is not available in the Beverly Hills site, a researcher can request that it be dubbed in New York and sent to California. See the Addendum for an additional collection dealing with broadcasts of boxing matches.
The vast majority of the collection is the full contents of the Leo Sarkisian Music Library transferred from the Voice of America in Washington, D.C. to the University of Michigan for preservation, teaching, and research use. The media library supported Sarkisian’s research and recording career at VOA (1963-2012) and served as the principal analog audio resources for the production of the Music Time in Africa radio show. The collection also includes personal papers and memorabilia from Leo Sarkisian and his wife Mary. New materials in digital form are added to the collection as tape recordings and personal papers are digitized.
Content types:
Performed music, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Photographic negative, and Text document