Contains over 200 audio tapes of KSD local programming, newscasts and specials. Includes more than 100 photographs showing scenes from KSD studios and KSD/NBC personalities, scripts, public relations releases, pamphlets, clippings and other printed materials. Also includes recordings of Russ David's program, St. Louis Serenade, that was fed to NBC.
Interviews with theSoldan High School basketball team taped before a game, 1940. Includes Harry Caray's broadcast on the sale of the St. Louis Cardinals, 1947.
Scripts of 380 shows sponsored by the Union Electric Company of Missouri and broadcast first on KSD and later on KMOX. The shows present the history of the St. Louis area. Also includes photographs and recordings.
Includes biographical information on Munsch who hosted Just For Women on WEW, 1940s-1950s, and Alva Dopking who was chief of the St. Louis bureau of the Associated Press.
Recording of Just for Women on WEW, January 22, 1953, with interview of Dr. Lillian Gilbreth, efficiency engineer and author of "Cheaper By the Dozen" on "Managing Minutes in Your Kitchen." Also interviews with Betty Furness, CBS television personality and home economist Nancy Haven as well as other programs, 1955-1956.
Includes interviews of Ed Bench, KSTL, KATZ and KCFM; Joan Colegrove; Don Corey, KSHE, KADI-FM and KIRL; John Craddock; Rex Davis, KMOX; Harry Eidelman, KCFM; Harry Fender, KXOK and KMOX; Dick and Nancy Friedman, KRCH; Robert Hille, KXOK; Gene Hirsch, WIL; Tim Lyons; Kay Morton; Chuck Norman; Ellie Ohrn; Roy Queen, KMOX; Ollie Raymand, KMOX; Sibley Smith, KCFM.
Includes a variety of promotional items from St. Louis radio stations, including coffee mugs, T-shirts bags, bumper stickers, posters, pens and pencils, postcards, buttons, patches, frisbees, visors, key chains, magnets, balloons, coupons, posters and more. Among the more unusual items is a KATZ license plate.