Broadcasting & Cable is a trade magazine focusing on radio broadcasting and cable television. Martin Codel, Sol Taishoff, Harry Shaw founded the magazine in 1931, and the first issue was published in October 15, 1931, though the magazine continues to publish issues weekly. This collection was largely accumulated by former Broadcasting & Cable editor Don West and consists of over 30,000 files relating the magazine's subjects. The subject files are largely comprised of photographs, however several files contain accompanying press releases and newspaper clippsings as well.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
In addition to being a radio station, KUT was for many years the hub of the Longhorn Broadcasting Network. As a result, the station received tapes of numerous series from producers in the U.S. and abroad, including music, interviews with artists, writers and musicians and comedy. Check in-house database regarding specific programs and dates.
Repository/Collector:
Fine Arts Library,The University of Texas at Austin
Miscellaneous material, consisting of recordings of We Take You Back, a 1958 radio program with excerpts from World War II news reports and commentary by Robert Trout and Edward R. Murrow and of Calendar Days, a 1962 tribute to radio with interviews of Murrow and Hans V. Kaltenborn by Harry Reasoner.
Business records of Monona Broadcasting which operated the ABC affiliate WKOW, Madison, WI, 1945-1960. Papers document the corporation's organization and operation, as well as its liquidation and sale to Midcontinent Broadcasting Company in 1960.
The collection offers representative coverage of operations in advertising, public relations, research, sales, news and public affairs broadcasting from the 1930s through the 1950s. Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, logs, scripts, promotional material, publications, scenic designs, photographs, a few production files and a library of scripts and recordings. Limited legal and financial records. The finding aid has been split into 15 smaller documents. To get all fifteen, search for "National Broadcasting Company" as a Collection Author. Most radio program information is in Part 4 for which there is a detailed online finding aid. At the very end of the finding aid, there is an index of correspondents and of scripts. The scripts are arranged by genre and include the program name, dates, and box and folder number in which they appear. One of the categories is "commemorative programs." Most, but not all, of the programs are represented by single scripts.
Correspondence, financial material, etc. of the Rochester Broadcasting Corporation founded in 1944 by a group of Rochester businessmen to operate a radio station in the city. The corporation dissolved in 1947 when it was denied a permit to construct a radio station.
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.
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.