Microfilm of sponsor's corrected copies of scripts, including commercials, preserved by Johnson's Wax, a client of the advertising agency Needham, Harper and Steers. Also mcludes scripts for the series Hap Hazard, 1941.
Newsletters from an organization of collectors and fans of Vic and Sade containing news about members, collectibles and information on the program's scripts and productions.
Papers document the personal and professional activities of two radio and television personalities. Johnny Olson worked as an announcer at WTMJ, Milwaukee, 1933-1944, and WJZ, New York, 1944, before going on to emcee, with Penny as hostess, a number of radio shows, including Ladies Be Seated and Rumpus Room. Papers include scripts, correspondence, gag material and audience letters and response cards relating to Olson's radio career. The collection also includes unprocessed sound recordings of Olson's early radio program The Price ls Right.
Only a small portion of the sound recordings in the collection have been processed. These include recordings of "The First 50 Years of University of Wisconsin Broadcasting, 1919-1969" and coverage of the John F. Kennedy assassination. Paper records dealing with the station's history are also available in the University of Wisconsin Archives.
Papers of a radio and television producer-director and his actress-wife. Radio material, which is the most complete aspect of the collection, includes files of annotated scripts and correspondence for The Adventures of Sam Spade, Philip Morris Playhouse, Suspense and other series which Spier produced and directed for CBS.
Although most NAB activities concern the establishment of broadcasting codes and support of the industry in matters relating to government regulation, the bulk of the collection pertains to the association's research function. Includes materials on studies and surveys by the Broadcast Measurement Bureau of radio audiences and the National Opinion Research Center on public attitudes toward radio in the 1940s.
Includes correspondence, reports, clippings, speeches of president William G. Harley, files of the Office of Research and Development and of National Educational Radio (a division of the NAEB), a newsletter and a small publication file. The largest part of the collection is a subject file which documents the NAEB's board of directors, committees, conventions, conferences, seminars and workshops. Includes photographs relating to two radio programs, World Neighbors and Report From Europe, and tape recordings.
Papers of a news producer and executive with CBS, 1947-1967, and other stations. Radio related information includes CBS files containing correspondence and office memoranda to and from Fred W. Friendly, Richard S. Salant and others, news scripts, program ideas and clippings and news releases about Westin, programs he produced and CBS in general. Two scrapbooks pertain to radio programs on which he worked as a field reporter: The People Act and Nation's Nightmare of which there are 20 recorded episodes.
Papers of an award-winning news broadcaster with WRC/WRC-TV in Washington, DC consisting chiefly of scripts of human interest stories broadcast on Emphasis, Monitor and other NBC network radio news programs and television editorials on local, national, and international news events.
Papers of a music professor at the University of Wisconsin and pioneer in radio education. Contains correspondence, articles and addresses, books, reminiscences and biographical material. Includes papers relating to Journey in Music Land, a program Gordon developed and directed for WHA, 1931-1955.
Papers of a man who began his career with WHA in 1929 and was appointed the station's program director in 1931. McCarty originated the Wisconsin School of the Air program. For 36 years he was director of the Wisconsin State Broadcasting System and executive director of the Wisconsin Radio and Televisino Council. Papers include correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, budget material, scripts, listener letters, newsletters, organizational material for WHA-TV, State Radio Council meetings, minutes and reports, National Association for Educational Broadcasters newsletters and reports, program schedules for various educational stations and personnel files. Note: Additional collections include material relating to WHA.
Fragmentary papers of radio and television news broadcaster Gunnar Back, including biographical clippings, scripts and other writings, publicity, photographs, sound and video recordings and correspondence. Because of the fragmentary nature of the papers, the value of the collection lies primarily in the events Back covered rather than its biographical information. Includes news and entertainment scripts Back wrote for KFAB/KFOR, Lincoln, NE, WJSV, Washington, DC and for Whatever Happened To, broadcast on WTOP. Also includes recorded transcripts of Crossfire, the ABC news interview program, transcripts of Congress Today, America's Town Meeting of the Air and Americans At Work and recordings of The Lonesome Road, a radio documentary about alcoholism as well as raw tape interviews apparently used in editing the broadcast. Also includes transcripts for a Lonesome Road program dealing with venereal disease. Photographs are primarily snapshots of Back broadcasting; most are unidentified, but there are snapshots of him with some people prominent in politics and entertainment and also of Back at WJNO, FL. Also includes material related to the Officers Conference, an interview program about world affairs that was aired by the military broadcast network (AFRS?) in the 1950s.
Papers, including a transcript of an oral history interview primarily concerning Barnes's experiences at WGN and WGT and some audio recordings. Also includes some television related material.
Papers of an RCA engineer consisting of a 1921 catalog of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. equipment, a booklet issued on the first anniversary of KDKA, a lecture service pamphlet on radio by S. M. Kintner, a Westinghouse engineer and several speeches by Westinghouse executives and engineers, including one by H.P. Davis, "the father of radio broadcasting."
Papers and audio recordings of a director of the American Medical Association's Bureau of Health Education. Consists primarily of radio and television scripts and recordings. The scripts, which were produced under Dr. Bauer's supervision, relate to programs broadcast over the NBC, ABC and CBS networks as well as to numerous programs prepared for local stations. Among the titles represented are NBC's Doctors at War, Doctors at Work, and To America's Schools-Your Health, ABC's Medical Horizons and CBS's Stephen Graham, Family Doctor. There are also scripts, 1931, written for WRJN, Racine, WI and scripts written by Mrs. Bauer for the Wisconsin State Medical Society and produced on WHA.
Papers of a writer, newspaperman and Washington news commentator for NBC and ABC. Contains scripts, journals, speeches and recordings. Scripts and discs relate almost exclusively to Baukhage's regularly scheduled ABC program Baukhage Talking. Among the news events covered in the scripts are World War II, the 1944 political conventions, President Roosevelt's death, Truman's inauguration, the Nuremberg trials, the Cold War and the Berlin crisis.