Primarily interviews and live musical performances featuring international newsmakers to local musicians. Includes nearly complete (app. 450 hours) archive of live-performance show, "Sandy Bradley's POTLUCK," aired on KUOW in Seattle and about 50 non-commercial US stations between 1984-1995. Also hundreds of hours of live folk, classical and world-music concerts from Puget Sound region. A large portion of this material has been archived in digital (.wav/44.1/16) format (done in 2008).
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Still image
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), MiniDisc, Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Betamax, Text document, and PDFs
Extent:
> 1000 reel-to-reel analogue tapes, several hundred DATs, small number of cassettes, MDs, CDs
Repository/Collector:
KUOW-FM / Puget Sound Public Radio / University of Washington
Correspondence and subject files principally regarding the Department of Communications at Washington State University. Also includes transcripts and working papers from the Pacific Northwest Broadcasting Oral History Project.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
Includes documents relating to the legal battle between the "Bellingham Herald" and KVOS, Inc., the first local radio station in Bellingham. The collection includes legal case transcripts of the Bellingham Publishing Company's attempt to prove that KVOS operated illegally by broadcasting "Herald" articles as KVOS news segments. The transcripts date from 1934 through the final decision of KVOS vs Associated Press was in 1936. Also includes legal depositions by the owner of KVOS, Rogan Jones, correspondence, plans, and brochures relating to the "Herald's" attempt to create a new radio station in Bellingham. See also Rogan Jones Collection below for related documents.
Repository/Collector:
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University
Includes scrapbooks, newspapers, audio and visual materials, maps and photographs reflecting Biery's interest and research on the history of Bellingham and Whatcom County, WA. Includes some material relating to early radio in the area.
Repository/Collector:
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University
Contains correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, secondary material about Crosby, materials from Crosby societies and fan clubs and an extensive collection of sound recordings of Crosby radio programs, including The Bing Crosby Show, 1949-1954, Kraft Music Hall, 1943-1946, Minute Maid Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice, 1949-1950, Philco Radio Time, 1946-1949 and miscellaneous programs, 1936-1960.
Repository/Collector:
Gonzaga University Archives and Special Collections
Includes correspondence, programming, scripts, and other records concerning International Good Music and KGMI radio. See also the Rogan Jones Collection below.
Repository/Collector:
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University