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.
A very small collection containing some papers, scripts and recordings. The only radio related item is a recording of the "War of the Worlds," Mercury Theatre of the Air program.
Papers of the Foundation's four FM stations: KPFA, Berkeley, CA, KPFK, Los Angeles, CA, WBAI, New York City and KPFT, Houston, TX. Coverage is best for programming and operations of the individual stations. The files include a fairly comprehensive collection of program guides for KPFA, KPFK and WBAI and operational material chiefly for KPFA and KPFK. Although the remainder of the collection pertains to Pacifica in general, there is little documentation on overall policymaking. One box contains correspondence, memos, a printed history, personnel lists, financial information, program and station guidelines, newsletters, minutes of national meetings and general information on affiliates and tape sales. Another half box concerns investigations of Pacifica by the U.S. Senate and the FCC over alleged communist infiltration and the use of obscenity on the air.
Papers of a writer for stage, screen, radio and television. Includes scripts for two radio plays: "The Meanest Man in the World," broadcast January 8, 1952 on Theatre Guild on the Air and "The Spectacle Lady" broadcast on May 5, 1952 on Cavalcade of America.
The bulk of the papers pertains to Weaver's professional career, beginning with his employment as an advertising executive at Young & Rubicam in the late 1940s. His subsequent years at NBC are also represented although the majority of the collection relates to Weaver's various endeavors after resigning as chairman of the network.
Papers, including a transcript of an oral history interview primarily concerning Barnes's experiences at WGN and WGT and some audio recordings. Also includes some television related material.
Papers of a Washington, DC, cultural impresario consisting chiefly of scripts for People and Events in the World of Music, a cultural affairs program aired by WGMS. Also includes correspondence and other papers.
Papers of the radio and television writer best known for Vic and Sade. Scripts for this radio program comprise the bulk of the collection but there are also materials pertaining to Keystone Chronicles, The Public Life of Cliff Norton and other programs which Rhymer wrote either as an NBC staff member or as a freelance writer. Also includes a few recordings of Vic and Sade, general correspondence, articles about Rhymer and Mrs. Rhymer's book about the Vic and Sade program.
Includes papers dealing with The 40's: The Great Radio Comedians, a television documentary Adato produced and directed in 1972. Includes progressive script drafts and transcripts of interviews with Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen, George Burns, Bing Crosby, Jim Jordan and Arch Oboler.
Papers relating to Wolff's career as a writer and producer of award-winning television documentaries best known for his work for CBS News. Also includes some WBBM scripts and material on documentary radio programs.
Papers of a freelance writer of books, articles and radio scripts. The radio section contains correspondence and scripts for Cavalcade of America, The Court of Missing Heirs, The Eternal Light, Labor for Victory, The March of Time, Win the War and other programs and specials.
Preliminary report on public service broadcasting by William Costello prepared for the Association of Radio Television News Analysts, 1957, together with a commentary on the same subject by news analyst Howe, then president of ARTNA.
Records of an association of radio stations, networks and sales representatives founded in 1951 as the Broadcast Advertising Bureau, Inc. to promote the use of radio as an advertising medium. The collection consists of reports, lists, reprints of articles, radio spot announcements, summaries of research findings and some RAB publications. In addition, there are by-laws, minutes of an early membership meeting and a report on operations in 1951. The material illustrates the attempts to maintain the attraction of radio as an advertising medium in competition with newspapers, magazines and television. Particularly noteworthy are the files on car radio listening entitled "Listeners on Wheels," the files on television, and the series of twelve reports on the cumulative audience of advertising. There are also files on such targets of radio advertising as women and businessmen. Newsletters cover a wide variety of topics on radio advertising, from general promotion of the medium to specific advice on how to increase advertising effectiveness.
Contains biographical materials, an oral history interview transcript, awards and certificates, newspaper clippings and reviews, correspondence, several programs scripts and other papers regarding plays, motion pictures, television mini-series and other papers. May not include any radio related material.
Papers of an NBC news commentator and newspaper journalist, consisting chiefly of material for his program Three Star Extra which was sponsored by the Sun Oil Company. Includes microfilmed scripts largely dating from January, 1956-May 26, 1965 and some editorials. For the period prior to 1955 the collection includes only a few scattered scripts but over 100 sound recordings. Also includes a small quantity of documentation relating to his broadcasting career with ABC and WOL.
Yucca Flats Documentary, a radio documentary made in 1953 by Reed Hixon and Howell, president of KREX/KREX-TV, Grand Junction, CO about the effectiveness and results of the first atomic bomb tests at Yucca Flats, NV.
Papers and audio recordings of "Milwaukee Journal" reporter Bob Doyle, consisting of his programs broadcast over WTMJ, Milwaukee, WI during World War II about his experiences covering Wisconsin troops in the 32nd Division. Collection includes transcripts of programs and other papers.
Papers of a member of the FCC, including speeches and articles, correspondence, docket and subject files concerning obscenity in broadcasting, the development of UHF broadcasting, the Committee for the Full Development of All-Channel Television, congressional relations, the Catholic Apostolate of Mass Media which Lee helped found and other topics.
Papers of an educator, writer, and founder-director of the Wisconsin Idea Theatre of the University of Wisconsin. The processed portion of the collection consists entirely of plays based on Wisconsin history and folklore which were written or narrated by Gard for the Wisconsin College of the Air and the Wisconsin Idea Radio Theatre, two series broadcast by WHA. One College of the Air production, "Lost Lady Elgin," is available on tape.
Papers of a Washington, DC, correspondent for NBC and public relations director for the Gulf Oil Corporation. News scripts, 1961-1975, comprise the majority of the collection. Contents include scripts for News on the Hour, Monitor, Today in Washington, and World News Roundup plus scripts for Voice of America and television.
Papers of a "Milwaukee Journal" reporter, ABC news broadcaster, and government official. Includes scripts for Fleming's appearances on Edward P. Morgan and the News. Of particular interest are files on Fleming's involvement with the National Association of Broadcasters and the Radio Television News Directors Association dealing with freedom of the press issues.
Scripts for radio dramas written, directed or produced by a cantor at Temple Beth-El in Cedarhurst, NY together with collected files on other religious broadcasts sponsored by various Jewish organizations such as the Jewish Theological Seminary and the American Zionist Council. Most extensively documented is The Eternal Light on which Segal was frequently featured as cantor.
Consists of correspondence, an oral history interview, scripts for Monitor, News on the Hour, Today in Washington, Weekend Report and World News Roundup and subject files for NBC special and background reports.
Publicity material relating to Brown, considered the dean of religious broadcasting, whose weekly program, Radio Chapel Service, was broadcast from WOW, Omaha, NE.
Includes correspondence, scripts, speeches, articles, reports, press releases and clippings. Half of the collection consists of files on his produced and unproduced writings for television, motion pictures, radio and the theater.
Letter, August 7, 1957, from Jones, a broadcast executive, describing his part in the litigation between the Associated Press and KVOS, Bellingham, WA which dealt with the right of radio stations to access and present news information to their audiences.
A radio and television announcer, talk radio host and newspaper columnist best known for his association with WSAU and WSAU-TV, Wausau, WI. Collection consists of examples of his writings and scripts, clippings about his career and some listener mail. Audio recordings include examples of 55 Feedback, early radio broadcasts, news, national and local musical performances and 1940 interviews with players for the Green Bay Packers recorded at WTAQ.
Papers of Nastal, a pioneer Milwaukee Polish-language radio broadcaster, and of his son, Stanley H., who succeeded him in 1947. The collection documents ethnic programming from the 1930s through the 1950s and includes biographical information, a copy of Nastal's reminiscences of service with Polish Volunteer Forces of the Canadian Army during World War I, advertising contracts, program logs and scripts. The logs, in English, are from Our Polish Hour, 1947-1954. The scripts, in Polish, are from Theater of the Air and daily serialized sketches. Also contains eleven tape recordings of broadcasts, primarily Our Polish Hour, ca. 1942-1947.
Forty eight transcription discs of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin broadcasts, including Wisconsin Cavalcade, broadcast by WKOW, WHA, WIBA and other stations.
A script writer for radio. The bulk of the collection consists of the scripts she wrote between 1943-1978, including Merlin the Storyteller, Eye Witness, Cavalcade of America and Let's Meet the Ladies. Some of the scripts include notes, research or memos relating to them. Also includes personal papers and tape recordings of some of the programs.
Papers of a writer, storyteller and radio, television and literary talent agent. Stix conceived the idea of a talent agency for radio news commentators in the early 1940s and formed a company with CBS newsman John G. Gude. Their clients eventually included Eleanor Roosevelt, Raymond Gram Swing, Joseph C. Harsch, Fannie Hurst, William L. Shirer and Edward R. Murrow among others.
Two broadcasts of the program recorded in Madison, WI and sponsored by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Reel 1 contains "La Follette Liberalism: In Retrospect," June 26, 1954 (broadcast June 29th). Reel 2 contains "The Role of Businessmen in American History," September 14, 1954.
Brief recollections of a broadcasting executive, primarily concerning sports broadcasting by WRAW, Reading, PA in 1929 by means of Western Union wire reports.
Papers of a 4-H Club and conservation leader on the staff of the University of Wisconsin Extension Service. Includes mail pertaining to Afield With Ranger Mac, an educational program which McNeel conducted for WHA for 20 years.
Although outside the general time frame for the Golden Age of Radio, of possible interest to researchers are the transcripts in this collection of the program WCBS Radio Looks at Television which featured interviews with such prominent media personalities and critics as Goodman Ace, Roone Arledge, Kenneth A. Cox, Walter Cronkite, Fred W. Friendly, Mark Goodson, Ernest Kinoy, Millard Lampell, Lee Loevinger, Elmer W. Lower, Richard A.R. Pinkham, Hubbell Robinson, Jr., Morley Safer, Ed Sullivan, David Susskind, Harriet Van Horne, Sylvester L. Weaver, Jr., John F. White, Perry Wolff and David L. Wolper. The collection also includes two interviews with Susskind.
Papers of an early radio performer who was most famous for his composition "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo." The collection consists of biographical material and microfilmed scrapbooks, fan mail, miscellaneous printed matter and recordings, including one with Milton Berle.
Only a small portion of the sound recordings in the collection have been processed. These include recordings of "The First 50 Years of University of Wisconsin Broadcasting, 1919-1969" and coverage of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Paper records dealing with the station's history are also available in the University of Wisconsin Archives.
Collection of this expert on the Soviet Union includes general correspondence, transcripts of hearings and remarks, newsclippings and scripts of his program Soviet Press and Periodicals aired on KPFA, Berkeley, CA.
Papers of an NBC broadcasting executive who served as vice-president in charge of its stations, planning and development and integrated services departments. Correspondence, 1926-1962, chiefly concerns Broadcast Pioneers, the National Association of Broadcasters, the "Chicago Daily News" and WMAQ. The limited NBC material is best for the inception of television during the late 1940s. Also includes speeches and articles, clippings, memorabilia, a transcript of an oral history interview and a number of NBC reports, including some by Hedges. Material pertaining to Broadcast Pioneers includes minutes, printed matter, issues of the group's in-house organ and material on its history project. Of special interest is Hedges's interview with John F. Royal and the inventories of the project's collection. Information on the NAB, of which Hedges was a founding member, includes a constitution and by-laws, a proposed code of fair competition, convention programs and a handbook. Photographs document a group of journalists, including Hedges, on Broadcasters' Mission to Europe, 1945.
Papers of a radio and television producer-director and his actress-wife. Radio material, which is the most complete aspect of the collection, includes files of annotated scripts and correspondence for The Adventures of Sam Spade, Philip Morris Playhouse, Suspense and other series which Spier produced and directed for CBS.
Papers and audio recordings of a director of the American Medical Association's Bureau of Health Education. Consists primarily of radio and television scripts and recordings. The scripts, which were produced under Dr. Bauer's supervision, relate to programs broadcast over the NBC, ABC and CBS networks as well as to numerous programs prepared for local stations. Among the titles represented are NBC's Doctors at War, Doctors at Work, and To America's Schools-Your Health, ABC's Medical Horizons and CBS's Stephen Graham, Family Doctor. There are also scripts, 1931, written for WRJN, Racine, WI and scripts written by Mrs. Bauer for the Wisconsin State Medical Society and produced on WHA.
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.
Annual reports, heavily illustrated, published annually by the Chicago radio station. See separate listing below for collection of the "WLS Standby" magazine.
Fragmentary records of the labor union which represented motion picture, television and radio writers and of its predecessor, the Screen Writers Guild. Records consist of agreements negotiated between members and the television industry, a constitution, by-laws, a code of working rules and a bulletin of credits for 1949.
Papers,including pamphlets, bulletins and newsletters, publicity and promotional materials, programs, directories, reports and studies and related material relating to the history of WTAM-AM and WTAM-FM, an NBC-owned stations in Cleveland, OH. See the catalog entry for information on possible additional materials and shelf locations.