Contains scripts from programs, mostly Homemaker's Half Hour, which were broadcast over WOI and sponsored by the University's Textiles and Clothing Dept. (Program titles for the other scripts are not indicated.) The programs focused on dressmaking, general fabric care and laundry tips. Most of the bound scripts come with a title page listing the author/speaker and title(s) of the speech. (In University Archives)
Scrapbook (compiler unknown) of clippings concerning Twin Cities radio stations and personalities including both network and local stations. Contains programming information for WCCO and KSTP. Annotations sometimes give information on subsequent careers of persons pictured.
Great moments in radio broadcast history selections narrated by Jack Benny and Frank Knight. Includes day time radio programs and commercials, introduction to soap operas, commercials, news, sports, comedy, adventure and mystery.
Repository/Collector:
Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives, Bowling Green State University
Check online catalog for listings of individual programs featuring or about African American performers or themes. Includes several episodes of Destination Freedom and a few Chicago Roundtable of the Air broadcasts.
Records include official correspondence, programming materials, and FCC documents for university-operated station WNYU, 1949-69. Audio recordings held in archive's separate Audiovisual Recordings collection
Records of the Amherst College student radio station, WAMH (formerly WAMF). Records include audio recordings, publicity materials, program guides, correspondence, photographs, training materials, FCC materials and internal documentation of radio station operations. This collection recieves frequent additions.
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Digital audio file, Photographic print, and Text document
Contains administrative records documenting the development of radio broadcasting at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, including scripts, transcripts of talks given by faculty, publicity, scrapbooks, photographs and sound recordings of programs produced and broadcast by WUOM.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
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.
Includes scrapbooks, 1948-1965, with photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence and ephemera related to The Register, the radio and television broadcasts hosted by the paper's publisher, Orene Muse (Mrs. Elton Huckabay) in the 1940s-1950s.
Repository/Collector:
Noel Memorial Library, Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS