The National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) is a national membership organization of community-oriented, non-commercial radio stations, producers, and broadcasters. NFCB was formed by a group of community broadcasters who envisioned the creation of a program-sharing cooperative for community radio stations, which would come to be known as the NFCB Program Service. NFCB's early mission also included the creation of training manuals for radio station staff, assisting stations in obtaining Federal Communication Commission licenses, and promoting the participation of minorities and women in public broadcasting. The collection documents NFCB's administrative activities, its work with member stations and community groups, training and licensing work, as well as its advocacy work and radio awards programs. A significant portion of the collection comprises the audio reels and paper records of the NFCB Program Service, which promoted the sharing of content among community radio stations by collecting and distributing radio programs created by independent producers from across the United States, many of which have been digitized.
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Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Edwin B. Dooley (1930-1998) was an engineer at both WLW radio and WLWT television, and remained active in radio, music and theatre after his retirement. A staunch advocate of radio history, Dooley worked to preserve "The Nation's Station" legacy by salvaging materials discarded by station management, resulting in a vast collection of over 5,000 discs spanning several decades of radio broadcasting.
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Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
This collection consists of administrative records of the CPB, documenting its efforts to expand public broadcasting in the United States, its grant programs for local radio and television broadcasting stations, and its partnerships with external foundations. The collection also includes audiovisual recordings of programs funded through CPB grants in audio cassette, audio CD, VHS, and U-Matic formats. Documents include memoranda, correspondence, meeting minutes, publicity materials, grant applications, and Congressional testimony.
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Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Consists of over 2,000 discs containing radio commercials for products representing the entire scope of American industry in the 1950s and 1960s and illustrating the work of dozens of advertising agencies. The discs are sorted into product categories ranging from Airlines to Wine. Items of special interest include commercials written by and featuring Stan Freberg and his troupe and some Piel's Beer advertisements with comedians Bob and Ray.
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Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Susan Stamberg is best known as a co-host on National Public Radio's All Things Considered from 1971 to 1986 and as the host of Weekend Edition Sunday from its inception in 1987 to 1989. In her later career in the 1990s, she worked as a cultural reporter on various NPR newsmagazines. The bulk of the collection documents Stamberg's career at WAMU in Washington, DC and her career at NPR from 1971 until 2011. It also contains materials from numerous other projects, including her books Every Night at Five, The Wedding Cake in the Middle of the Road, Talk, and her other writings
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Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
This collection includes print materials related to the development and organization of NPR, as well as the program archive consisting of over 100,000 audio tapes beginning with the first broadcast in 1971.
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Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
The Samuel C. O. Holt papers include materials from 1951 through 1995. The bulk of the collection dates from 1967 to 1983 and relates to Holt's work as project director of the Public Radio Study from 1967 to 1969, as PBS's Coordinator of Programming from 1970 to 1973 and as NPR's Senior Vice President for Programming from 1977 to 1983. Additionally, there is a significant amount of material from Holt's consulting activities. Most of the collection consists of reports and proposals concerning public broadcasting programming, funding, and research. Also present are intermittent chronological files of business correspondence, memoranda, minutes, maps, and video and audio cassette tapes.
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Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, which owned several TV and radio stations in the U.S. They began their own radio news bureau, based in Washington, D.C., in 1957. The 2,300 audiotapes in the Group W collection provide a comprehensive look at worldwide events delivered over the radio from 1957-1982. The content of the tapes consists of national news feeds, programs and interviews produced by and for Group W Communications stations from their Washington bureau. It also includes voice cuts and speeches from politicians and activists during events of national and international significance spanning the 1960s and 1970s – the Civil Rights movement, the Cold War and the Space Race, the Vietnam War, the anti-war movement, political figures and events, (including the Watergate crisis).
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Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
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.
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Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
The Housewives' Protective League was a daily CBS radio program that aired from 1948 to 1962, produced by such esteemed broadcasters as Allen Gray. During its run, the show explored a variety of issues from childrearing and health to more irreverent topics. Housewives was also the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" of the airwaves, regularly pre-testing all its sponsor's products. The majority of the collection are scripts for daily broadcasts of the radio show The Housewives' Protective League and its predecessor Coffee Break.
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Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland