Includes personal and biographical files, professional and audience correspondence, speeches and writings, background material and scripts for Edward R. Murrow and the News, Report to the West and other CBS television news programs.
With the exception of his farewell remarks broadcast on the Huntley-Brinkley Report, the holdings relate entirely to radio. The two series for which coverage is most complete are his daily five-minute editorials, Perspective on the News and Emphasis: Plain Talk. The tape recordings consist of editorials prepared under the auspices of Horizon Communications Corporation following his retirement from NBC.
Four anniversary recordings made at WTMJ, Milwaukee, WI of the program celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, November 20, 1940.
The bulk of the collection consists of scripts, both radio and television, 1930-1960, with only three scripts prior to 1935. Includes scripts for special programs such as The War That Must Not Come, April 16, 1946, and for occasions on which Utley substituted for other commentators such as H. V. Kaltenbom and Joseph Harsch. Also includes scripts for dramatizations in which Utley participated or which he moderated such as the historical series entitled We Came This Way, 1944-1945, and Quiz Kids, 1946. Also includes fan mail and other correspondence. Utley broadcast his news reports and commentary over several Chicago stations, but the majority of the work originated from the NBC stations WMAQ and WNBQ, either for local or network broadcast.
Miscellaneous material, consisting of recordings of We Take You Back, a 1958 radio program with excerpts from World War II news reports and commentary by Robert Trout and Edward R. Murrow and of Calendar Days, a 1962 tribute to radio with interviews of Murrow and Hans V. Kaltenborn by Harry Reasoner.
Microfilm copies of interviews of Phillips Carlin' Hans V. Kaltenborn, Raymond F. Guy, Mark Woods and William S. Hedges compiled by the Radio Unit of the Oral History Collection of Columbia University.
Reports on radio listening by Crossley, Inc., a market research firm known for its "Crossley Ratings." The reports concern network programming, advertising in selected cities and audience composition and behavior.
Consists mainly of radio scripts, 1941-1944, for broadcasts sponsored by a labor group organized during World War II and reactivated during the Korean War to coordinate union aid to government war programs. Topics covered in the scripts include war profits, overtime duty, the draft, workers' education and labor's attitude toward the national war effort.
Consists mostly of mail from television viewers and radio listeners. Contains reactions to particular broadcasts of the Huntley-Brinkley Report, David Brinkley's Journal and other programs. Also includes papers relating to two radio programs: Emphasis and On The Hour.