Format: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and Audiocassette - RPTF/ARSC Sound Collections Database Search Results

Description:: Program aired on WTEL
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, and Audiocassette
Repository/Collector:: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Online finding aid:: View on discover.hsp.org

Description:: News + public affairs shows (including coverage of Vietnam War protests + student takeover of campus administration building), freeform music shows, and "Film" and video interviews with former station workers. Additional documentation includes runs of station program guides. Dates pick up in 60s and run through 70s and beyond.
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Film, Videotape, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), and CD
Repository/Collector:: Noa Eshkar

Description:: Campaign spots, "H-Bomb Radio Spots," WNEW, Clifton Utley, Mrs. Edison Dick, Edward R. Murrow ("This I Believe"), "The National Purpose," Billy Graham, Jack Webster, Carl Sandburg, John Gardner, Clinton Rossiter, Albert Wohlstetter, Walter Lippmann
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, and Audiocassette
Repository/Collector:: Princeton University Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections

Description:: KBRK (Brookings, SD, 1958); Campaign radio spots; CBS Capitol Cloakroom; KOTA (Rapid City, SD); etc.
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, and Audiocassette
Extent:: Audiovisual materials contain 105 linear feet, only a portion of which is radio
Repository/Collector:: Princeton University Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections

Description:: The collection consists of materials related to radio stations and television stations in the United States and Mexico, 1930-2005. Materials include program guides, radio playlists, station newsletters, promotional materials, newspaper and magazine articles, station-produced publications, correspondence, press releases, and about 56 press release photographs from KBBQ in Burbank, Calif. Some KBBQ photographs depict country music recording artists, including Lynn Anderson, Eddy Arnold, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Dean, Merle Haggard, Lee Hazlewood, Ferlin Husky, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Lindsey, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Ray Price, Jeannie C. Riley, Tex Ritter, Nancy Sinatra, Hank Thompson, Sheb Wooley, and Tammy Wynette; Hollywood tailor Nudie Cohn; and actor Andy Griffith. Station publications include about 150 issues of Stand By! from WLS in Chicago, Ill., from the 1930s and 1940s. There is also material relating to the Southern Baptists Radio-Television Commission.
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Cylinder, Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, 8-Track, Audiocassette, Film, Videotape, and Digital tape (DAT, DCC)
Extent:: There are 1900 items in the Radio and Television collection, but not all are recordings. There are also recordings housed outside the radio and television collection.
Repository/Collector:: Southern Folklife Collection
Online finding aid:: View on www2.lib.unc.edu

Description:: Wide-ranging collection spanning 1928-70s and beyond. Holdings include local programming from stations throughout the country, including WBAI, WCBS, WNEW, WRCA, WMCA, WRVA, WNWK, WABC, WWL, WNEW, WOR, WHN, WQXR, WNYC, WBRC, WBRD, WBYN, WCAU, WCKY, WOL, WCOI, WEA, WFUN, WGAR, WIIN, WIFE, WINS, WJZ, WJVA, WKIX, WKLO, WLEA, WLOD, WLS, WXRK, WOKO, WONE, WPLI, WQAM, WQUA, WSAF, WTAN, WTYC, WTRY, KFOX, KMET, KABC, KPFK, KPHO, KRLA, KLSX, KROC, Pacifica. Content includes news coverage, interviews, classical and popular music, drama, sports, non-English language programming, etc. Personalities include later-nationally famous hosts and DJs and hosts such as Bob Fass, Dr. Demento, Casey Kasem, Alan Freed, Bob Crane, Arthur Godfrey, among others.
Content types:: Sounds
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Videotape, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), and CD
Extent:: 3,300+
Repository/Collector:: The Paley Center for Media
Online finding aid:: View on www.paleycenter.org

Description:: This includes a number of UVA-specific recordings that were distributed throughout the state.
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, and Audiotapes
Repository/Collector:: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Description:: WMBQ, Brooklyn NY -- Several hours of programming from October 1936 in English, Yiddish, German, Lithuanian, Polish, and Hungarian. WCNW, Brooklyn NY -- Several hours of programming from November 1936-January 1937, featuring local programming in English, Yiddish, German, Hungarian, and Polish. WSB, Atlanta, GA -- several hours of local coverage of the 1947 "Three Governors Crisis." WNAC, Boston -- one Yankee Network News broadcast from February 1935. WHDH, Boston -- one 1935 talk by local American Legion leader, several hours of "Matinee with Bob and Ray" broadcasts from 1948-51, WIND, Chicago -- complete aircheck of April 1955 Chicago Cubs baseball broadcast, only known example featuring sportscaster Bert Wilson; WAVE, Louisville KY -- four fifteen minute musical programs from April 1937 featuring local talent; KPRC, Houston -- several hours of local programming including the "Crustene Ranch Party," locally-broadcast live country music feature heard over Texas Quality Network.
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, and Audiocassette
Extent:: Approximately fifty hours of local radio material as part of a much larger collection of general radio programming.
Repository/Collector:: Elizabeth McLeod

Description:: 1930s-1950s, WEVD, WCNW, WOR, WNYC, WHN, WBBC, WCBS and WMCA
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, and Audiocassette
Extent:: 509 radio transcription discs; other items but quantity unknown
Repository/Collector:: Max and Frieda Weinstein Archive of YIVO Sound Recordings

Description:: Air checks, sports, news, political coverage, local DJs, local music, station IDs/jingles, and local commercials from stations WKBW, WBEN, WINE, WHSO, WEBR, and WGR, from 1950s-1980
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, CD, MiniDisc, External drive, Website, VHS (audio), Betacam SP, 1, 2, and 3/4 in videotape, DVC pro tapes, and DVD
Extent:: 600-700
Repository/Collector:: Steve Cichon

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