Includes scripts for Have You Heard, written by Edith Webber in the 1940s for WHO, Des Moines. The program included book reviews and commentary about fashion, music, historical figures, etc. Also includes material relating to George Webber's career as the founder of KWDM-AM in 1948 which became KWKY in 1959 after it was sold to 3M. George Webber also started KWDM-FM in 1964.
Contains papers relating to Ackley's career with KSO and KRNT, Des Moines owned by the Iowa Broadcasting Co. Ackely was a newscaster and master of ceremonies for special programming, transcriptionist and music director. Includes scripts, ephemera, a scrapbook and photographs.
Includes newsletters, souvenir programs, newsclippings, files on WHO, Des Moines radio and television history, information about the station's founder, B. J. Palmer, and scrapbooks.
Includes scripts by Ross for Mr. & Mrs. Blandings and Suspense, three recordings of Suspense and other papers related to his television and film career. See online finding aid for list of other scripts which are not identified as being radio or television.
Includes correspondence, minutes of the board of directors, convention reports, financial records and committee and membership files. Also includes copies of the organization's publications such as the "Commentator" and "RTNDA Bulletin." Correspondents include Edward R. Murrow. As of 2005, much of the collection remains in a semiprocessed and/or unprocessed state although there is an online finding aid.
Includes hundreds of transcription discs dating from the 1930s and reel-to-reel tapes of WHO programs, including many wartime broadcasts by Jack Shelley and Herb Plambeck, and hundreds of sporting events called by Jim Zabel.
Includes papers relating to Hoover's involvement in regulating radio as Secretary of Commerce, 1921-1928. The library is operated by the National Archives.