Contains scripts, speeches, notes, correspondence and other material related to Eschen's career as Director of Special News Events, an announcer and reporter on KSD. Also includes audio tapes and photographs.
Contains photographs, books, theater programs, clippings, correspondence, audio and videotapes and memorabilia covering Fender's various careers. Includes correspondence from well-known entertainers, including Florenz Ziegfeld, Eddie Cantor and Max Morath, some 500 photographs of Fender with celebrities he interviewed for KXOK and KMOX and an autograph book with hundreds of signatures from celebrities. Fender hosted an interview show on KXOX and KMOK from 1947 to the 1970s.
Includes photographs, clippings, awards and certificates and memorabilia covering Burks's radio disc jockey career beginning in 1947 at KXLW and later with KSTL , KATZ and KADI. Also includes material on his TV career.
Rodel was a staff announcer and newsman at KSD, 1947-1975. Collection includes five recordings of his auditions, ca. 1947, and additional post-1960 radio and television material.
Contains recordings of programs, 1930s-1940s, including Barnyard Follies, newscasts, interviews, sports and other programming with station favorites such as France Laux, Jack Buck, Harry Caray, Bob Hardy, Rex Davis, John McCormick, Jack Camey, Anne Keefe and others. Also includes publications, reports, advertisements, clippings and a variety of other material.
Contains over 200 audio tapes of KSD local programming, newscasts and specials. Includes more than 100 photographs showing scenes from KSD studios and KSD/NBC personalities, scripts, public relations releases, pamphlets, clippings and other printed materials. Also includes recordings of Russ David's program, St. Louis Serenade, that was fed to NBC.
Interviews with theSoldan High School basketball team taped before a game, 1940. Includes Harry Caray's broadcast on the sale of the St. Louis Cardinals, 1947.
Scripts of 380 shows sponsored by the Union Electric Company of Missouri and broadcast first on KSD and later on KMOX. The shows present the history of the St. Louis area. Also includes photographs and recordings.
Includes biographical information on Munsch who hosted Just For Women on WEW, 1940s-1950s, and Alva Dopking who was chief of the St. Louis bureau of the Associated Press.
Recording of Just for Women on WEW, January 22, 1953, with interview of Dr. Lillian Gilbreth, efficiency engineer and author of "Cheaper By the Dozen" on "Managing Minutes in Your Kitchen." Also interviews with Betty Furness, CBS television personality and home economist Nancy Haven as well as other programs, 1955-1956.
Includes interviews of Ed Bench, KSTL, KATZ and KCFM; Joan Colegrove; Don Corey, KSHE, KADI-FM and KIRL; John Craddock; Rex Davis, KMOX; Harry Eidelman, KCFM; Harry Fender, KXOK and KMOX; Dick and Nancy Friedman, KRCH; Robert Hille, KXOK; Gene Hirsch, WIL; Tim Lyons; Kay Morton; Chuck Norman; Ellie Ohrn; Roy Queen, KMOX; Ollie Raymand, KMOX; Sibley Smith, KCFM.
Includes a variety of promotional items from St. Louis radio stations, including coffee mugs, T-shirts bags, bumper stickers, posters, pens and pencils, postcards, buttons, patches, frisbees, visors, key chains, magnets, balloons, coupons, posters and more. Among the more unusual items is a KATZ license plate.