Collection documents the history of WRNL and includes copies of newspaper articles, photographs and text tracing the history of the Richmond station founded in 1937. The station was the successor to WPHR, Petersburg, VA.
Includes print and possibly some audio material relating to the 1938 program. Note: Access to the collection is extremely restricted and is generally discouraged. Initial contact with the company should be through the Legal Department.
The Commission was established in 1953 to encourage educational and public interest radio and television broadcasting. The records include correspondence, grant applications and meeting files.
Transcripts and interviews with pioneers of public radio broadcasting in the United States conducted by Burt Harrison, former manager of KWSU, 1977-1978, under a contract from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
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
Papers relating to McEwen's career as a newspaper reporter and feature writer, radio reporter and private speech instructor. She wrote scripts for the serial program Hodgepodge that was aired on a Twin Falls radio station.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
Records of the Washington State University campus station KFAE which became KWSU. Includes program logs and some audio recordings. Records are located in three separate collections. Additional photos of KWSU are in the separate Hutchinson Studio Photographs Collection.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
Contains correspondence and printed material relating to several aspects of Hill's activities, including his career as a reporter for the Radio Farm Program.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
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
Contains correspondence, program scripts, Mary Avery's program, Washington Archives, and other papers. Scripts cover such items as agricultural extension broadcasts, musical and literary programs, dramatic productions and school broadcasts.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
Scripts for a series of broadcasts over KWSC. Written by Milo Wesley Goss, the scripts include biographies of John Akins, Lulu Downen, George Draper, Clifford Drury, Garret Kincaid and May Squires.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
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
Contains correspondence, minutes of meetings, project reports, contest entries, radio scripts, photographs and scrapbooks collected or prepared by Warfield, Chairman of the Six Federated Clubs of Clarkston, for the club's entry in the "Build Freedom with Youth" contest sponsored by the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
Includes script of an historical documentary broadcast in tribute to the City-County Health Department of Yakima prepared by the Yakima Public Schools in conjunction with the Business and Professional Women of Yakima. Subject was likely the prevention of typhoid fever.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
A tape collection of assorted Old Time Radio programs donated by Paul C. Pitzer. A complete listing of the contents of all 937 reels is available online at http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/MMR/speccoll.htm.
Repository/Collector:
Special Media Collections (Audio Collections), Washington State University
Papers consist almost entirely of correspondence between the author and the book dealer Henry Wenning, 1962-1964, most of which deal with the distribution of Origin Press materials and books and with Corman's life and work in Japan. Does not contain any material about Corman's program This Is Poetry, 1948-1951.
Repository/Collector:
Olin Library, Department of Special Collections, Washington University
Includes a 1939 program for the WVVA Jamboree and a Doc Williams Border Riders family album, ca. 1935-1945. Additional collections, listed separately under "publications" in the online catalog include a WWVA 1936 Flood Souvenir program, a WHIS Freedom for All broadcast in conjunction with a 1950 Bluefield Coal Show, a 1948 WMMN family album program, a 1951 WWVA 25th Anniversary booklet and a WPAR radio bulletin for the Farm Chat Program, 1936.
Repository/Collector:
The Cultural Center, Capitol Complex, West Virginia Division of Culture and History
Hardman was general advertising manager of the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, 1924-1951, and director of the Ohio Story. Papers pertain largely to the development of the program, from original idea to final casting, broadcast and publicity. Includes scripts and script drafts, administrative papers, correspondence, story ideas and suggestions, research articles, subject lists, broadcast material, clippings, music scores, photographs and biographical information on Hardman. See also separate collection listing for Ohio Story Scripts. Sound recordings and films of the program are located in the Audio-Visual collection.
Includes scripts and other papers relating to the series Movies, Art, and Problems directed by Lyttle and broadcast over Cleveland stations WHK and WCLE.
Papers of the Hungarian-American radio announcer, including a Hungarian song book compiled by Szappanos in 1941, correspondence, 1960-1966 and newspaper clippings, 1939-1975. Szappanos was active in the Szappanos Radio Ball. Some of the materials are in Hungarian.
Contains correspondence, writings, legal documents, clippings, scrapbooks, diaries, typescripts of Wallace's columns, magazine feature stories, unidentified radio and TV scripts, short stories and a novel. Also includes material on Wallace's script (media not identified) for the 1956 political commentary, "I'm Going to Scream Again."
Prepared for the stockholders and affiliates of the MBS, the White Paper dealt with the FCC report on chain broadcasting and a May, 1941 agreement between Mutual and ASCAP. Mutual's second White Paper analyzing the FCC's revision of its chain broadcasting regulations is located in a separate file.
Radio and television scripts written by Frank Siedel. See related Anson F. Hardman collection on the development and production of the program. Sound recordings and films of the program are located in the Audio-Visual collection. The program was broadcast on WTAM.
Records of a charitable fund focusing on children's literature, the effects of movies and radio on the values of children and the development of radio as an educational tool.
Includes scripts on the cities, towns and villages of Stark County, OH as broadcast over WHBC. The broadcasts were launched by the Stark County Historical Society in cooperation with the Ohio Broadcasting Corp.
Series I consists mainly of radio scripts written by Hall as an information specialist for the Cleveland Office of Civilian Defense during World War II. Recordings of the program are in the Audio Visual collection.
Includes papers relating to McKinney's one minute radio broadcasts, Thot-O-Grams, brief inspirational messages under the auspices of United Church Women of Cleveland.
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 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
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
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
Jones owned four stations in Washington: KXKO, Aberdeen, KGMI, Bellingham, KPQ, Wenatchee and KPCB, Seattle. Subject files include materials relating to the legal case, KVOS vs Associated Press concerning broadcasters' rights to access and present news information to their audience and Jones's conflicts with bodies such the American Society of Composers, Artists and Performers regarding the management, licensing and operation of his stations. In addition to business related papers, the collection contains a group of radio and oral history interviews that Jones and others recorded. Also includes a sound recording of KGMI's 40th anniversary show, November 15, 1967.
Repository/Collector:
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University
Contains papers relating to the creation, broadcast and promotion of WGBH's programming and the development of related print and multimedia materials. The records also relate to the development of the LICBC and WGBH-FM/WGBH-TV and to some extent the development of public radio.
Repository/Collector:
Media Archives & Preservation Center, WGBH Education Foundation
Includes papers, photographs and audio tapes of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council & WGBH radio programming and related materials, 1951-present.
Repository/Collector:
Media Archives & Preservation Center, WGBH Education Foundation
Includes correspondence, reports, clippings, recordings and programs of the NAB which served as a professional association for persons involved in Protestant Christian radio and television broadcasting. There are very few files with information on the NBR prior to the mid-1960s.
Includes scripts for Gunsmoke (radio and television), 1957-1965, and other unidentified radio scripts. The catalog listing notes that Hite wrote for the following radio programs but it is not clear if scripts for any of the programs are included in the collection: Fort Laramie, Rogers of the Gazette, Romance, The Ghost Walks, Night Beat, The Modern Adventures of Casanova, State Fair; The Perfect Crime, Will Rogers Country Editor and the Lux Summer Theatre. Check unpublished finding aid for more information on the unidentified scripts.
Repository/Collector:
Library, Department of Special Collections, Wichita State University
Comprises some 4,000 arrangements of orchestral jazz dating from the 1920s to the 1940s as well as contemporary recordings, clippings files and small collections of photographs and artifacts. See extensive online finding aid for details.
Repository/Collector:
Archives and Special Collections, Williams College
Includes radio scripts, (Box 10, folder 311; Box 11, folder 334) for many of Nathan's productions, 1930s-1940s, including interviews done for the Catholic Charities Fund Appeal, 1943, Beyond the Call of Duty for the Young Men's Christian Association, Comrade Borozova, n.d., Flashbacks by Paddy, n.d., How Things Started, n.d., It's A Man's World, 1941, New Frontiers, 1938?, One Hundred Years With Youth, n.d., the panel discussion program Opinion Requested, 1945, for the Army-Air Force broadcast on WOR, Report From the Front, 1944, the instructional series The Story of Us All, 1940, broadcast on WEAF, That's News, n.d., They Chose to Die, 1941, Today's News For Tomorrow's Citizens, 1944, Your Rights and Mine, 1940-1941, and We've Got Something, n.d.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Contains a copy of a 78rpm recording that includes the speech Miss Earhart made over a transatlantic radio hookup the day after she landed in Ireland, May, 1932.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Contains personal and professional papers, newspaper clippings, outlines for possible television series, memorabilia and other papers. Includes some material relating to Coxe's pulp character, Flashgun Casey, Crime Photographer, which later became a radio series, Casey, Crime Photographer.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Broadcasting to the world the latest information from the oil fields of Texas, Arkansas and the Great Southwest, March 26, 1923. Note: This may be a transcript of a broadcast.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Contains the July 18, 1954 broadcast that includes the poetry of Dylan Thomas and a discussion by Reuel N. Denny, Elder J. Olson and Alan Simpson. Note: Description was unclear as to whether the material was a sound recording or a transcript.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Includes scripts for many radio programs that moved to television. See online finding aid for list of scripts. Scripts donated after 1964 may not be listed. Note: On different pages of the University's web site, this collection is listed as "television scripts" and "radio and television scripts." The latter reference notes that there are 5,000 scripts in the collection and that only a portion of the collection has been indexed.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Contains a condensation of the book read by McFee on WJZ, Newark, NJ on Sunday, December 24, 1922. Includes a printed notice of the broadcast which may have been sponsored by the United Fruit Company.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Includes radio and television scripts for Theatre Guild on the Air (a.k.a. U.S. Steel Hour), plus correspondence and other papers. Also includes non radio related Theatre Guild papers. Scripts are stored in 125 boxes, arranged alphabetically by title. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically. Note: Sound recordings of the programs are in the Music Library.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Collection of 46 scripts for the program broadcast on WICC. The programs were extra-curricular productions that were written and acted by students of the Department of Drama, Yale University.
Includes tapes, arrangements, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings and memorabilia. Contact library for more information about any radio related material in the collection.
Collection includes an unknown quantity of recorded radio broadcasts. Other than a complete run of the Theatre Guild on the Air there is no catalog of the collection that can be accessed by the public. Library staff will, however, respond to written or email inquiries regarding the availability of specific programs or performers. Inquiries should be as specific as possible, noting that it is easier for the library to search by performer than by program.
Contains scrapbooks, manuscript arrangements, numerous commercial recordings and 27 half-hour radio programs that, according to the library web site, were never aired and have not yet been cataloged.
An oral history of Yiddish radio, 1930s-1950s, produced by the NPR program All Things Considered and available on 2 CDs. Also available in many libraries or can be purchased through the web site.
Transcript of interview with Williamson taped on December 10, 1975 in which he discusses his experience with WKBN. A separate interview includes a biography of Williamson.
Repository/Collector:
William F. Maag Jr. Library, Youngstown State University
Transcript of interview taped on December 7, 1990 on the history of Youngstown State University's radio station WYSU as told by Donald Elser who helped start the station.
Repository/Collector:
William F. Maag Jr. Library, Youngstown State University
Includes hundreds of transcription discs dating from the 1930s and reel-to-reel tapes of WHO programs, including many wartime broadcasts by Jack Shelley and Herb Plambeck, and hundreds of sporting events called by Jim Zabel.
Contains personal correspondence and related documents of members of the E. H. Butler family, owners of the "Buffalo Evening News" and founders of WBEN. Includes some items related to WBEN which was owned by the Butler family through the late 1970s.
Repository/Collector:
Archives and Special Collections, Buffalo State College