Marc Steiner collection, Collection 110: The Marc Steiner Collection consists of recordings of the Marc Steiner show from its original air date of March 31, 1993 through 2008. The Marc Steiner show is a public interest radio show originating in Baltimore and covering subjects on the local, state, national, and international level. Topics have included arts and culture, education, homelessness and international politics. The show has aired on WJHU; WYPR; and its current home WEAA. Extent: Betatapes (100), Cassette tapes (95), VHS (5), DAT (2690), CD (640); all formats have been arranged chronologically, rehoused, and are in good condition. Other than a complete show listing (1993-2012), no associated papers accompany the recordings.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
Betatapes (100), Cassette tapes (95), VHS (5), DAT (2690), CD (640)
A sound recording of a series created by Robert Lewis Shayon based on significant accomplishments in education during a period of concern for the quality of science education in the United States. This segment in the series was an in depth report on the accomplishments of the Frontiers of Science Foundation of Oklahoma.
The bulk of collection is comprised of Bums's plays, novels, short stories and poetry and includes radio scripts for Voice of Chiropractic, The Chiropractor's Broadcast and The Keep Smiling Program, 1937-1938.
Repository/Collector:
Maryland Historical Society Library, Manuscripts Department
Briefly describes both government and privately produced sound recordings from a variety of sources, including radio broadcasts, speeches, interviews, documentaries, oral history and public information programs. The earliest recording is from 1896 but most recordings fall in the 1935-present time span. Titles are described numerically and by personal name reference.
Repository/Collector:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Unit (Special Media Archives Services Division)
Describes 5,000 recordings, primarily of CBS-KIRO broadcasts, 1931-1977, which were originally maintained at the University of Washington. The collection consists of news and public affairs programs, actualities, speeches, interviews, wartime dramas and daily World War II news programs. Two finding aids are available: History in Sound: A Descriptive Listing of KIRO-CBS Collection of Broadcasts of the World War II Years (1963) and History in Sound: Part II (1972). Catalog cards contain brief content summaries and are more detailed than the published guides. Most entries are available on reel-to-reel reference tapes.
Repository/Collector:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Unit (Special Media Archives Services Division)
Describes 27,000 broadcasts of news and public affairs programs, 1943-1971. The catalog is arranged chronologically by date of broadcast and thereunder by program series, title, keyword or personal name reference.
Repository/Collector:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Unit (Special Media Archives Services Division)
Contains about 3,000 books. Although the emphasis of the collection is on technical material relating to radio and television hardware, there is a considerable amount of material on radio and television programs and performers. Also houses a collection of audio cassettes of radio progrmas. Holdings are listed online.
The National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) is a national membership organization of community-oriented, non-commercial radio stations, producers, and broadcasters. NFCB was formed by a group of community broadcasters who envisioned the creation of a program-sharing cooperative for community radio stations, which would come to be known as the NFCB Program Service. NFCB's early mission also included the creation of training manuals for radio station staff, assisting stations in obtaining Federal Communication Commission licenses, and promoting the participation of minorities and women in public broadcasting. The collection documents NFCB's administrative activities, its work with member stations and community groups, training and licensing work, as well as its advocacy work and radio awards programs. A significant portion of the collection comprises the audio reels and paper records of the NFCB Program Service, which promoted the sharing of content among community radio stations by collecting and distributing radio programs created by independent producers from across the United States, many of which have been digitized.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Edwin B. Dooley (1930-1998) was an engineer at both WLW radio and WLWT television, and remained active in radio, music and theatre after his retirement. A staunch advocate of radio history, Dooley worked to preserve "The Nation's Station" legacy by salvaging materials discarded by station management, resulting in a vast collection of over 5,000 discs spanning several decades of radio broadcasting.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
This collection consists of administrative records of the CPB, documenting its efforts to expand public broadcasting in the United States, its grant programs for local radio and television broadcasting stations, and its partnerships with external foundations. The collection also includes audiovisual recordings of programs funded through CPB grants in audio cassette, audio CD, VHS, and U-Matic formats. Documents include memoranda, correspondence, meeting minutes, publicity materials, grant applications, and Congressional testimony.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Consists of over 2,000 discs containing radio commercials for products representing the entire scope of American industry in the 1950s and 1960s and illustrating the work of dozens of advertising agencies. The discs are sorted into product categories ranging from Airlines to Wine. Items of special interest include commercials written by and featuring Stan Freberg and his troupe and some Piel's Beer advertisements with comedians Bob and Ray.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Susan Stamberg is best known as a co-host on National Public Radio's All Things Considered from 1971 to 1986 and as the host of Weekend Edition Sunday from its inception in 1987 to 1989. In her later career in the 1990s, she worked as a cultural reporter on various NPR newsmagazines. The bulk of the collection documents Stamberg's career at WAMU in Washington, DC and her career at NPR from 1971 until 2011. It also contains materials from numerous other projects, including her books Every Night at Five, The Wedding Cake in the Middle of the Road, Talk, and her other writings
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
This collection includes print materials related to the development and organization of NPR, as well as the program archive consisting of over 100,000 audio tapes beginning with the first broadcast in 1971.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
The Samuel C. O. Holt papers include materials from 1951 through 1995. The bulk of the collection dates from 1967 to 1983 and relates to Holt's work as project director of the Public Radio Study from 1967 to 1969, as PBS's Coordinator of Programming from 1970 to 1973 and as NPR's Senior Vice President for Programming from 1977 to 1983. Additionally, there is a significant amount of material from Holt's consulting activities. Most of the collection consists of reports and proposals concerning public broadcasting programming, funding, and research. Also present are intermittent chronological files of business correspondence, memoranda, minutes, maps, and video and audio cassette tapes.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, which owned several TV and radio stations in the U.S. They began their own radio news bureau, based in Washington, D.C., in 1957. The 2,300 audiotapes in the Group W collection provide a comprehensive look at worldwide events delivered over the radio from 1957-1982. The content of the tapes consists of national news feeds, programs and interviews produced by and for Group W Communications stations from their Washington bureau. It also includes voice cuts and speeches from politicians and activists during events of national and international significance spanning the 1960s and 1970s – the Civil Rights movement, the Cold War and the Space Race, the Vietnam War, the anti-war movement, political figures and events, (including the Watergate crisis).
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Broadcasting & Cable is a trade magazine focusing on radio broadcasting and cable television. Martin Codel, Sol Taishoff, Harry Shaw founded the magazine in 1931, and the first issue was published in October 15, 1931, though the magazine continues to publish issues weekly. This collection was largely accumulated by former Broadcasting & Cable editor Don West and consists of over 30,000 files relating the magazine's subjects. The subject files are largely comprised of photographs, however several files contain accompanying press releases and newspaper clippsings as well.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland