KBOO’s analog audio archive includes almost 7,500 items of radio programming in 5, 7, 10″ open reel, CDs, cassettes, DATs, and minidiscs format. KBOO Community Radio went on the air in June of 1968, and radio program recordings date from the late 1940s. This is a collection created from institutional records. This collection is unprocessed. Our archives include Oregon artists Ken Kesey, Ursula LeGuin, Gus Van Sant, political figures such as Kent Ford, and Winona LaDuke, as well as hundreds of poets, hundreds of artists, and hundreds of activists, both recorded lectures, panels, conferences, and street actions. We also have significant live music recordings from Doc Watson to Elliot Smith.
Content types:
Text, Spoken word, Performed music, and Sounds
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), MiniDisc, Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape, Open reel tape (unknown material), Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), and Text document
Extent:
Numbers are estimates, as some labeled items are bundled and dates were not recorded for all items. 7600 individual items: 1,361 10" open reel (1947-2001), 1,865 7" open reel (1948-1969), 99 5" open reel, 1,500 cassettes (1948-2008), 112 digital audio tapes (1969-2004), 217 minidiscs (1969-2004), 2,433 optical discs (1967-2013).
Radio program Latino USA began production by KUT and the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. In 2010 production moved to the Futuro Media Group. Still produced by Maria Hinojosa and aired on NPR today, Latino USA presents stories on Latina/o history, culture, and current affairs.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Sounds (Other than music & language)
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:
410 audio cassettes, 331 compact discs, and 133 Audio Files, plus unprocessed materials.
The Gay Peoples Union Collection presents digital copies of primary source materials documenting GPU and Milwaukee’s gay liberation movement. Materials were selected from the following collections held by the Division of Archives and Special Collections of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries: the Gay Peoples Union Records, GPU News, and the Eldon Murray Papers.
Content types:
Spoken word and Text
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Open reel tape (unknown material), and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
KEXP and KCMU live performance recordings, radio programming, on-demand content and related materials (1972-present).
Content types:
Performed music, Still image, Text, Two-dimensional moving image, and Sounds
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Data cartridge, and Text document
Collection of daily interview shows, news stories, topical reporting projects, and historical features.
Content types:
Spoken word and Still image
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), and Text document
Extent:
"Main Street" (talk/interview show) currently over 4500 54 min. programs, Dakota Datebbok (short history feature), currently 4700, News stories starting in 1991, topical documentaries and special feature sets, 25
Primarily interviews and live musical performances featuring international newsmakers to local musicians. Includes nearly complete (app. 450 hours) archive of live-performance show, "Sandy Bradley's POTLUCK," aired on KUOW in Seattle and about 50 non-commercial US stations between 1984-1995. Also hundreds of hours of live folk, classical and world-music concerts from Puget Sound region. A large portion of this material has been archived in digital (.wav/44.1/16) format (done in 2008).
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Still image
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), MiniDisc, Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Betamax, Text document, and PDFs
Extent:
> 1000 reel-to-reel analogue tapes, several hundred DATs, small number of cassettes, MDs, CDs
Repository/Collector:
KUOW-FM / Puget Sound Public Radio / University of Washington
Broadcast archives of the WILL Radio's Focus 580, a public radio call-in talk program featuring interviews with newsmakers, subject matter and policy experts, authors, artists, and others addressing topics of public interest including politics, science, health, race, gender, LGBTQ, environment, education, history, literature, culture and the arts, and community life.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Text
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Data disk (floppy disk), and Text document
Audio and Video assets on the topic of the Vietnam War, produced by WILL Radio and Television, including news stories, interview programs, public lectures, and oral history interviews.
Content types:
Spoken word, Text, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Lacquer disc, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Open reel video, and Text document
Extent:
25 oral histories; 42 radio programs; 2 TV news stories