The Milo Ryan / CBS Radio News Phonoarchive is a unique audio time capsule that documents many historic 20th century events. It consists of sound recordings of CBS Radio News programs, public affairs shows, actualities, speeches, interviews, wartime dramas, daily World War II news updates. The recordings capture groundbreaking broadcasts by Edward R. Murrow and his "Boys": William L. Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Tom Grandin, Larry LeSueur, Charles Collingwood, Howard K. Smith, Winston Burdett, Bill Downs, Mary Marvin Breckinridge, Cecil Brown, and Richard C. Hottelet. The collection also includes recordings of programs and speeches made by public figures during and beyond WW II, including Churchill, Eisenhower, Einstein, Hitler, and JFK. As Dr. Donald Godfrey writes in his 1973 article "History Held a Microphone": "There are twenty-two hundred and twenty-seven newscasts. All but a handful originating from CBS. Their newscasts represent every weekday without a miss, from September 7, 1939, with the Germans entering Poland, to April 2, 1945, with the allies entering Germany.... Tapes contain examples of special events coverage: the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, the bombing of Japan, landings in North Africa, the 13 Normandy Invasion, the World Security Conference, April, 1945, the function of the American and Russian Armies, April, 1945, the death and funeral of FDR, and miles of tape on V. E. and V.J. days. Elmer Davis' daily five minute reports are represented in entirety from his debut, September 16, 1939, to February 13, 1941, and occasionally to July 9, 1943. H. V. Kaltenbom edits the news, complete from August 27, 1939, until January 26, 1940, and sporadically thereafter. Our library includes 21 speeches by Winston Churchill, representing 12 hours of this master of language. There are 51 talks by President Roosevelt totaling 24 continuous hours." A detailed description of most of the recordings in the Phonoarchive is available in Milo Ryan's book History in Sound (UW Press).
Content types:
Performed music and Spoken word
Formats:
Acetate open reel tape, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Photographic print, and Text document
Scripts for a series of radio programs dealing with the historical background, development and present-day conditions of the American Indian. Program was presented by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
Includes papers of Dorothy Stimson Bullitt who managed Stimson family real estate interests and in 1946 acquired a radio station which she expanded into the King Broadcasting Company, a regional radio and television network. Includes records of the King Broadcasting Company, 1933-1993, mainly from Bullitt's office, consisting of correspondence, memoranda, FCC applications and testimony, minutes, program schedules, production notes and scripts, annual reports, financial records, personnel policy documents, press releases, publicity programs, awards, scrapbooks and memorabilia, station logs, blueprints, sound recordings and several films.
Repository/Collector:
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, University of Washington
Script for program dealing with Indians of North America, 1847-1865, prepared by the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission and broadcast on KWSC, Pullman, WA.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
Includes tapes from the 1970s of Edward R. Murrow radio broadcasts, recordings of news broadcasts, material regarding presidential politics and historical events, the Reg Stone show (organ music) and radio advertisements.
Repository/Collector:
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University
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
K-R-A-B were once the call letters of a non-commercial, educational FM radio station (107.7mhz) in Seattle, Washington. Going on the air in 1962, it was the fourth listener-supported station in the country. The KRAB Archive is the only authoritative online source of information documenting the history, philosophy and accomplishments of the station. The online collection contains digitized audio, text publications such as program guides, flyers and posters, photographs, correspondence, FCC filings, and short articles about the station. The collection also contains some ephemera and audio of other KRAB Nebula stations, as well as a listing of online archival resources of other "community" radio stations.
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Open reel tape (unknown material), Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Photographic print, and Text document
Extent:
Online: >600 hours of digitized audio; >1,000 program units; >320 digitized program guide pamphlets or tabloids; comprising >30gb of online disk storage. Physical: >1,200 7" reels of audiotape; >500 cassette tapes; >300 8x5" 12 page program guides; >400 8x11" multifold tabloid program guides; Misc news clippings, posters, flyers, brochures, and Board of Director minutes.
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
Correspondence and subject files principally regarding the Department of Communications at Washington State University. Also includes transcripts and working papers from the Pacific Northwest Broadcasting Oral History Project.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
Includes documents relating to the legal battle between the "Bellingham Herald" and KVOS, Inc., the first local radio station in Bellingham. The collection includes legal case transcripts of the Bellingham Publishing Company's attempt to prove that KVOS operated illegally by broadcasting "Herald" articles as KVOS news segments. The transcripts date from 1934 through the final decision of KVOS vs Associated Press was in 1936. Also includes legal depositions by the owner of KVOS, Rogan Jones, correspondence, plans, and brochures relating to the "Herald's" attempt to create a new radio station in Bellingham. See also Rogan Jones Collection below for related documents.
Repository/Collector:
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University
Includes scrapbooks, newspapers, audio and visual materials, maps and photographs reflecting Biery's interest and research on the history of Bellingham and Whatcom County, WA. Includes some material relating to early radio in the area.
Repository/Collector:
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University
Contains correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, secondary material about Crosby, materials from Crosby societies and fan clubs and an extensive collection of sound recordings of Crosby radio programs, including The Bing Crosby Show, 1949-1954, Kraft Music Hall, 1943-1946, Minute Maid Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice, 1949-1950, Philco Radio Time, 1946-1949 and miscellaneous programs, 1936-1960.
Repository/Collector:
Gonzaga University Archives and Special Collections
Includes correspondence, programming, scripts, and other records concerning International Good Music and KGMI radio. See also the Rogan Jones Collection below.
Repository/Collector:
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University