Includes correspondence and printed material presenting the station's attempts to get favorable ratings and more power from the Federal Radio Commission for WPTF, the station owned by Durham Life.
Contains papers relating to Congressman Whitener's private and unofficial affairs, including press releases concerning the topics of his weekly radio programs, schedules of when programs were to be aired and some information about pay TV.
Contains subject files, appointment books, assignment notebooks, scripts, official press packs and other papers documenting more than 20 years of Benton's career at various divisions of CBS News.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Papers dealing with Bernhardt's writings relating to country, old-time, bluegrass and gospel music, including Uncle Joe Johnson, a radio personality at WPAQ, Mount Airy, NC. The Uncle Joe Johnson materials include a magazine article written by Bernhardt for "Bluegrass Unlimited" about WPAQ and a number of photographs of Uncle Joe Johnson and others.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Included in the large collection of Smith's papers and writings is the radio script for "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and material regarding the musical version of the story.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contains reel-to reel recordings of Faier's disc jockey programs aired on KPFA, Berkeley, CA and WBAI, New York, including The Midnight Special on WBAI and an acetate recording of Dillybean Radio Spots.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Audio Tape Series includes recordings of radio programs, interviews and readings related to Ortiz's activism. (In the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture.)
Includes sound recordings and related materials chiefly containing radio programs, 1958-1961 and n.d., hosted by Brooks and sponsored by the Hayward, CA chapter of the NAACP. The programs are mostly concerned with the status of African Americans in the mid-20th century.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contains about 100 items dealing with radio plays, including correspondence, copyright notices, playscripts and other materials, chiefly from the 1930s and 1940s. Some of the radio plays were written by Holman while others were edited by him. Many of the plays were used in the Forum of the Air series which aired in the late 1930s.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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
Contains papers relating to Crutchfield's career, including his work at WBT, Charlotte, NC as a radio announcer, program director and general manager, as president of the Jefferson Pilot Broadcasting Company, 1965-1977, and also his career at CBS.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The bulk of the items in the collection pertain to Kuralt's career between the 1970s and the 1990s and include scripts, publicity materials and a small amount of fan mail.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
By far the bulk of the papers are Federal Trade Commission files. As an attorney-examiner with the FTC between 1941 and 1962, Gardner worked with cases involving alleged deceptive advertising practices in the print media and radio. Collection includes worksheets for 1948-1951 from the Division of Radio and Periodical Advertising.
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
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.
Documentation, sound recordings and a videotape relating chiefly to Morton's work with African American harmonica player Deford Bailey who performed on WSM's Grand Ole Opry.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Extensive oral history of Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham, an African American performer. The oral history focuses on his career, his early work in medicine shows and carnivals and his later work on Broadway and on radio and television.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill