Gordon discusses her early experience in radio, including the Children's Corner, 1930, Yesterday's Children and Youth Forums for "The New York Times," 1943.
In addition to the transcripts of the individual interviews, this collection consists of miscellaneous papers relating to the memoirists who were interviewed by the Oral History Office. Includes original papers, printed materials and microfilm copies of materials not retained by Columbia. One half of the collection consists of original notes, draft transcriptions, related correspondence and documents related to the Radio Pioneer Project. Of those papers only available on microfilm, about one-third have a list of contents.
Participants discuss the creation and development of WOR from several viewpoints. Accounts deal with broadcast news, trade unions, program innovations, music, technical developments and the effects of blacklisting. Includes portions of individual interviews with George Brown, Morton Gould, Henry Morgan and Jack Poppele.
Woods discusses his early days at Broadcasting Corporation of America and NBC, an administrative view of broadcasting, commercials, the division of NBC into two networks and the formation of ABC.