The collection consists of materials related to radio stations and television stations in the United States and Mexico, 1930-2005. Materials include program guides, radio playlists, station newsletters, promotional materials, newspaper and magazine articles, station-produced publications, correspondence, press releases, and about 56 press release photographs from KBBQ in Burbank, Calif. Some KBBQ photographs depict country music recording artists, including Lynn Anderson, Eddy Arnold, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Dean, Merle Haggard, Lee Hazlewood, Ferlin Husky, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Lindsey, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Ray Price, Jeannie C. Riley, Tex Ritter, Nancy Sinatra, Hank Thompson, Sheb Wooley, and Tammy Wynette; Hollywood tailor Nudie Cohn; and actor Andy Griffith. Station publications include about 150 issues of Stand By! from WLS in Chicago, Ill., from the 1930s and 1940s. There is also material relating to the Southern Baptists Radio-Television Commission.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Cylinder, Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, 8-Track, Audiocassette, Film, Videotape, and Digital tape (DAT, DCC)
Extent:
There are 1900 items in the Radio and Television collection, but not all are recordings. There are also recordings housed outside the radio and television collection.
Julian Price was a businessman, journalist, and civic leader. A native of Greensboro, NC, Price was the grandson of Jefferson Standard Insurance executive Julian Price (1867-1946). Price lived in Asheville, NC, from 1990 until his death in 2001, using his extensive wealth and philanthropic spirit to fuel a revitalization of Asheville’s downtown. Price was very interested in radio and print journalism, and recorded a number of interviews for broadcast on public radio stations. This collection contains over 50 cassette recordings of Price’s radio programs.
Content types:
Spoken word and Performed music
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Text document, Photographic negative, Photographic print, and VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C)
Digital images, with searchable database, for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Radio programs can be searched separately at http:// scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Contains personal and professional papers of Carroll who was associated with the J. Walter Thompson Co. (JWT) and the development, writing and production of many radio programs, including Kraft Music Hall. Also contains material relating to his work as a ghost writer for Bob Hope and with the Office of War Information.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
A formerVice President of JWT, the majority of the collection focuses on JWT through short company histories and the establishment and growth of departments such as Broadcast and Radio. Also of interest is the Oral Interview Series.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Includes material that documents three advertising agencies : D' Arey Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B), Benton & Bowles (B&B), and D'Arcy-MacManus & Masius (D-MM). Most of the radio related material is in the "Clients Series, 1931-1985, n.d., bulk 1970-1980s, n.d." Includes material about the Maxwell House Radio Showboat, May, 1933, and six scripts about great composers broadcast on Prudential's The Family Hour, 1943.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
As an executive with JWT, Seymour's papers deal primarily with television but he was involved with the company's reorganization of its radio and television operations into a single Radio-Television Department as television emerged as the leading media in the United States in the 1950s.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History