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.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Papers document the work Dorrance did for FM Broadcasters, Inc. (FMBI), the Office of War Information (OWI) and the Broadcasters' Victory Council (BVC). Collection includes FMBI newsletters, BVC newsletters, Radio Background Material, an Information Guide published by the OWI and various speeches and memos written by Dorrance. The bulk of the material relates to the rise of FM broadcasting and the role broadcasters and radio could play in the war effort.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Contains correspondence, scrapbooks, discs, photographs, speeches, scripts, awards and magazine and newspapers articles documenting Kirby's early career in broadcasting, including his work with WSM, as Director of Public Relations for the National Association of Broadcasters, as a founder of Broadcast Music, Inc. and as the chief of the radio branch of the War Department during World War II. Also includes material relating to The Army Hour. Ten related transcription discs from the collection of Major Glenn Miller and the American Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces Program have been transferred to the Library's audio collection.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Edythe Meserand (1908-1997) began her broadcasting career in 1926 at NBC, but had her greatest influence at WOR where she produced the first true radio documentary and began the station's long-running Children's Christmas Fund Drive. She was a founding member of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) and served as the organization's first president. The majority of the collection pertains to various radio and television programs she produced and to the early years of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT).
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
A sound recording of a series created by Robert Lewis Shayon based on significant accomplishments in education during a period of concern for the quality of science education in the United States. This segment in the series was an in depth report on the accomplishments of the Frontiers of Science Foundation of Oklahoma.
Helen Sioussat (1902-1995) was Director of the Talks and Public Affairs Department at CBS from 1937 to 1958, where she oversaw as many as 300 broadcasts a year addressing such topics as government, labor, education, religion, civil rights and international affairs. She would go on to create the television program, Table Talk.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Papers documenting the history and prograniming of KBPS, Portland, OR. Includes correspondence, reports, financial documents, scripts, speeches and sound recordings.
Repository/Collector:
National Public Broadcasting Archives, University of Maryland
Mona Kent (1909-1990) was a script writer for both radio and television, having written hundreds of scripts for the radio serial "Portia Faces Life" and contributing scripts to TV's "Captain Video" series. The collection primarily documents Kent's work on the radio soap "Portia Faces Life" from 1940 to 1956.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Contains about 3,000 books. Although the emphasis of the collection is on technical material relating to radio and television hardware, there is a considerable amount of material on radio and television programs and performers. Also houses a collection of audio cassettes of radio progrmas. Holdings are listed online.
Contains documents relating to Novik's career in public broadcasting, including correspondence, reports, hearings, clippings, conference materials, press releases and other papers. Novik was associated with WNYC, New York, and was executive secretary of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. Papers also include correspondence with the FCC and the Institute for Education by Radio-Television.
Repository/Collector:
National Public Broadcasting Archives, 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.
Repository/Collector:
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
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Transcription discs of local radio broadcasts, 1946-1964, primarily of contemporary classical music performances and including some broadcasts of premieres (world premieres, first radio broadcasts, and first Washington performances), recorded by Rothschild, and some live recordings from Chamber Music Society of Baltimore concerts. Radio stations recorded include WBAL, WJZ, WCAO, WFBR, WITH, and WRC. The collection also includes several popular and jazz recordings, commercial releases, and some private home performances. Recordings of Chamber Music Society of Baltimore concerts and local radio broadcasts on reel-to-reel tapes, 1955-1991. The collection includes several world premieres from CMS concerts and other notable performances in broadcasts (first Washington performances, etc.). Radio recordings are concentrated in earlier recordings while CMS performances are concentrated later. The collection also includes a large subsection of recordings from Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz.
Content types:
Notated music, Performed music, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, and Acetate open reel tape