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
Two letters from Henry Manners Katzman to George Griffin of Broadcast Music Inc., San Francisco, March 5 and 10, 1970, reminiscing about the New York popular music and radio scene, 1932-1935. Katzman describes George Gershwin's radio show in detail with anecdotes.
Repository/Collector:
Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Contains research reports done by members of the faculty and staff concerning educational radio and TV, content analysis, psychological effects of mass media and music broadcasting.
Repository/Collector:
University Archives, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign