The collection offers representative coverage of operations in advertising, public relations, research, sales, news and public affairs broadcasting from the 1930s through the 1950s. Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, logs, scripts, promotional material, publications, scenic designs, photographs, a few production files and a library of scripts and recordings. Limited legal and financial records. The finding aid has been split into 15 smaller documents. To get all fifteen, search for "National Broadcasting Company" as a Collection Author. Most radio program information is in Part 4 for which there is a detailed online finding aid. At the very end of the finding aid, there is an index of correspondents and of scripts. The scripts are arranged by genre and include the program name, dates, and box and folder number in which they appear. One of the categories is "commemorative programs." Most, but not all, of the programs are represented by single scripts.
Tape recordings and transcriptions of a series of documentary programs produced in 1951 by WHA concerning various communities in Wisconsin, including interviews with residents, historical background and profiles of the current communities.
Contains mostly scripts for various radio and television programs, 1940-1967, including scripts of his news programs broadcast over the MBS. Also contains some manuscripts, diaries, scrapbooks, audio recordings, photographs and correspondence, including letters dealing with Brown's difficulties with networks and sponsors.
Publicity material relating to Brown, considered the dean of religious broadcasting, whose weekly program, Radio Chapel Service, was broadcast from WOW, Omaha, NE.
Records of the market research firm specializing in radio and television audience measurement. The collection consists primarily of Hooperatings, reports on radio listening on major network stations in selected U.S. cities, 1936-1947. Also includes newsletters, pamphlets and related material produced by the firm for its subscribers.
Papers of an actor, producer and writer of Happy Hollow, a CBS dramatic serial which originated at KMBC, Kansas City, MO. Includes two 1936 scripts and promotional materials.
Reports of the market research firm (1923-) best known for its ratings of network radio and television programs. Consists primarily of Nielsen Radio Indexes, 1943-1957, and Nielsen Television Indexes, 1951-1953, which summarize and analyze Nielsen's bi-weekly reports and includes several types of audience measurements. Also includes miscellaneous reports on CBS sustaining programs, 1943, D-Day listening, 1944, and the purchasing habits of television viewers, 1957.
Includes radio and television scripts, 1940s-1970, aired on NBC, CBS and BBC, including Background, Meaning of the News and Report from Washington. Also includes correspondence. Material reflects Harsch's varying assignments from coverage of the Harlan trial in Kentucky to the London Naval Conference, Germany and the Pacific theater during World War II and post-war foreign affairs responsibilities in London and Washington, D.C.
Brief recollections of a broadcasting executive, primarily concerning sports broadcasting by WRAW, Reading, PA in 1929 by means of Western Union wire reports.
One of the original commissioners of the Federal Radio Commission, the papers include scripts for Caldwell's weekly program Radio Magic, 1939-1942, and other broadcasts.
Includes CBS radio scripts of his coverage of World War II in Europe, post-war documentaries and transcripts from the CBS Rome news bureau, 1951-1953, and from The World Tonight, 1961-1965. Also includes other papers.
Dubbed tape recordings of four Fibber McGee and Molly shows, 1939, including segments with guest ZaSu Pitts and Harold Peary and of 24 Vic and Sade programs, November, 1943 and September, 1944.
A newspaper, radio and television journalist, Cassidy spent most of his career as a foreign correspondent and executive for the Associated Press, NBC and Radio Free Europe. His radio scripts form the bulk of the collection and include scripts written in Paris, 1945-1950, for Report on Europe and those written in the United States, 1953-1955, for Heart of the News, News of the World, World News Roundup and other programs.
Sound recording of four parodies of CBS news figures and operations by Ham O'Hara. Spoofed is Walter Cronkite's D-Day re-visited interview with Dwight Eisenhower (featuring Mel Brooks), The Bird, an international satellite broadcast, I've Got a Secret, and Harry Reasoner's narration of a version of "The Night Before Christmas" entitled "Cronkiter's Christmas Carol."
Includes personal and biographical files, professional and audience correspondence, speeches and writings, background material and scripts for Edward R. Murrow and the News, Report to the West and other CBS television news programs.
The collection is best for the years 1956-1967 and includes a wide variety of materials pertaining to his association with ABC as a newsman and vice-president of news, special events and public affairs, 1953-1967. Fragmentary early material includes a scrapbook on events covered by Daly as White House correspondent for WJSV, Washington, DC, 1938-1939, correspondence and scripts for CBS Is There (later known as You Are There), The Front Page, his coverage of the Italian theater during World War II and "The Sangamon," an Edgar Lee Masters radio play. There are no scripts dating from the later period covered but there are office memos, fan mail and publicity for Daly's television programs. Additional files pertain to ABC news administration and operation, outside speaking engagements, involvement with professional groups such as the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters and coverage of political conventions. Collection includes three disc recordings and 53 photographs.
Papers of a writer for stage, screen, radio and television. Includes scripts for two radio plays: "The Meanest Man in the World," broadcast January 8, 1952 on Theatre Guild on the Air and "The Spectacle Lady" broadcast on May 5, 1952 on Cavalcade of America.
With the exception of his farewell remarks broadcast on the Huntley-Brinkley Report, the holdings relate entirely to radio. The two series for which coverage is most complete are his daily five-minute editorials, Perspective on the News and Emphasis: Plain Talk. The tape recordings consist of editorials prepared under the auspices of Horizon Communications Corporation following his retirement from NBC.
The bulk of the collection consists of scripts, both radio and television, 1930-1960, with only three scripts prior to 1935. Includes scripts for special programs such as The War That Must Not Come, April 16, 1946, and for occasions on which Utley substituted for other commentators such as H. V. Kaltenbom and Joseph Harsch. Also includes scripts for dramatizations in which Utley participated or which he moderated such as the historical series entitled We Came This Way, 1944-1945, and Quiz Kids, 1946. Also includes fan mail and other correspondence. Utley broadcast his news reports and commentary over several Chicago stations, but the majority of the work originated from the NBC stations WMAQ and WNBQ, either for local or network broadcast.
Collection consists of bound and unbound trade journals and clipping scrapbooks relating to the history and development of the radio and television broadcasting industry. Includes bound "Yearbooks of Broadcasting" magazine, 1961-1962 and 1964. Also includes papers relating to the daily radio column that Codel wrote for the Radio News Bureau and which appeared in a number of newspapers across the country.
Papers document Coe's work as a producer and director in the theatre, television and film. However, the collection does include recordings of the radio detective series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar in which Coe was not involved.
Collection includes a wide variety of printed ephemera (e.g. pamphlets, bulletins, newsletters, publicity and promotional materials, programs, directories, reports, studies and related materials) separated from the manuscript collections covering different aspects of broadcasting. Includes recordings of Dr. Crane's Radio Talks, Volume I, 1948, a collection of broadcasts by Dr. Crane, a Northwestern University psychologist, on topics concerning applied psychology for the lay person.
Microfilm copies of interviews of Phillips Carlin' Hans V. Kaltenborn, Raymond F. Guy, Mark Woods and William S. Hedges compiled by the Radio Unit of the Oral History Collection of Columbia University.
Includes scripts for the Morning Cheer, Bear and Magic Number programs sponsored by the Gillette Rubber Company and broadcast over WTAQ, Eau Claire, WI. Scripts include advertising for the Gillette Rubber Company, jokes, humorous sketches, and stories. Also includes a folder containing historical information about WTAQ.
Includes scripts for Adventures of a Modern Mother, a dramatic series broadcast by NBC, 1940-1941, which was written by Gomme. Also includes a folder of photocopied memorabilia and correspondence.
Consists mainly of radio scripts, 1941-1944, for broadcasts sponsored by a labor group organized during World War II and reactivated during the Korean War to coordinate union aid to government war programs. Topics covered in the scripts include war profits, overtime duty, the draft, workers' education and labor's attitude toward the national war effort.
Papers of the author of the radio serial The Story of Mary Marlin. Includes a complete run of scripts of the original show, 1934-1945, of an Australian version, 1959-1960, character sketches, show music, outlines, publicity, commercials, reference material, scenarios, story summaries and synopses. Also includes personal and business papers and correspondence with substitute authors, advertising agencies, networks, lawyers and Procter and Gamble, the show's sponsor.
Consists entirely of annotated script material for radio and television series, including, for radio, America on the Air, Cavalcade of America, Gang Busters and Now Hear This.
Consists entirely of scripts and related production information for numerous radio and television series and pilots. The majority of the scripts, many of which are annotated, pertain to the radio series The Hedda Hopper Show, The Mel Blanc Show and Let George Do It.
The Radio files date from the late 1940s and include scripts and correspondence regarding plays and radio broadcasts on which Douglas appeared, including Prudential Family Hour of Stars, Escape and Suspense. Also includes radio adaptations of two of Douglas's films, "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" and "The Champion."
A portion of the collection includes scripts and recordings of various radio plays and documentation pertaining to various commercial recordings in which Douglas was featured.
Papers and audio recordings of "Milwaukee Journal" reporter Bob Doyle, consisting of his programs broadcast over WTMJ, Milwaukee, WI during World War II about his experiences covering Wisconsin troops in the 32nd Division. Collection includes transcripts of programs and other papers.
Tape recorded interview with Dwight "Woody" Woodward, May 15, 1953, broadcast on WKOW, Sextonville, WI concerning the reconstruction and flight of a 1916 Morse Scout World War I fighter airplane recorded at Truax Field in Madison, WI and broadcast live as part of the series The Old and the New at Truax Field.
Papers of a NBC vice-president in charge of Information. Contains correspondence, telephone logs, appointment books, speeches and reports. Includes letters and memoranda relating to NBC's development of short wave facilities, international broadcasting and planning for wartime broadcasting. Also includes speeches on newspaper-radio relations, short wave broadcasting and propaganda.
Papers of a member of the FCC, including speeches and articles, correspondence, docket and subject files concerning obscenity in broadcasting, the development of UHF broadcasting, the Committee for the Full Development of All-Channel Television, congressional relations, the Catholic Apostolate of Mass Media which Lee helped found and other topics.
Papers of an advertising and public relations executive instrumental in the establishment of advertising policy for radio and television. Includes correspondence, speeches and writings and a variety of advertising material, the bulk of which relates to James's employment at NBC as sales and promotion manager, 1927-1941, at MBS as vice-president in charge of advertising, promotion and research, 1946-1949, and at the A.C. Nielsen Company as vice-president in charge of new services, 1954-1971.
Reminiscences concerning radio broadcasting during World War II by a chief of the Radio Branch of the War Department's Public Relations Bureau, 1941-1945. The recollections encompass mobilization, the Armed Forces Radio Service and a review of programs produced by the commercial networks under army auspices.
The bulk of the collection consists of annotated scripts for Edward P. Morgan and the News. Also includes opening and closing messages which reflect the views of the AFL-CIO, Morgan's sponsor, correspondence and over 100 recordings.
Recording of We Take You Back, March 13, 1958. The recording consists of excerpts from commentators' reports made from around the world on outstanding news events, ca. 1938-ca. 1945, with commentaries by Robert Trout and Murrow.
Papers of an author, journalist and radio broadcaster who specialized in coverage of Latin American affairs. The bulk of the collection consists of radio scripts and writings, many in draft form, for magazines and newspapers. The radio scripts pertain to Three Star Extra, The Other Americas, Paths to Prosperity and news broadcasts.
Papers of an educator, writer, and founder-director of the Wisconsin Idea Theatre of the University of Wisconsin. The processed portion of the collection consists entirely of plays based on Wisconsin history and folklore which were written or narrated by Gard for the Wisconsin College of the Air and the Wisconsin Idea Radio Theatre, two series broadcast by WHA. One College of the Air production, "Lost Lady Elgin," is available on tape.
Includes scripts and drafts for The Crime Cases of Warden Lawes, Big Town and Big Story on radio, scripts for some television programs and other papers.
Papers of a journalist and writer for radio, television and theater. Majority of collection consists of scripts for radio and television. Among the best represented radio series are Best Plays, Doctor Six Gun, Five Star Matinee, Hollywood Love Story, The Marriage, My Secret Story, NBC Theatre, NBC University Theatre, Nick Carter, Woman in Love, and X Minus One.
Collection documents Tufty's newspaper career and her work in radio and television broadcasting with her own programs as well as appearances as a guest on numerous other programs and activities in several professional organizations, including the American Women in Radio and Television, the American Newspaper Women's Club and the Women's National Press Club. Contains scripts of Headlines From Washington, Tufty Topics, Panning the Press, Home and others. Also includes tape and disc recordings of her programs and other broadcasts plus personal reminiscences, biographical interviews and memorabilia.
Papers of a foreign correspondent, news analyst, author and AFL-CIO radio coordinator consisting chiefly of books, articles, World War II communiques, plays, scripts for films and radio programs, speeches and over 700 tapes. Radio programs represented in the collection include John Vandercook and the News, Labor Answers Your Questions, Labor Reports to the Nation, Washington Reports to the Nation and As We See It. Also includes extensive script files for programs broadcast by the CBS West Coast Network and KMOX, St. Louis. Papers involving listener mail from the late 1940s are noteworthy for their concern with alleged communist influence in California.
Papers of a "Milwaukee Journal" reporter, ABC news broadcaster, and government official. Includes scripts for Fleming's appearances on Edward P. Morgan and the News. Of particular interest are files on Fleming's involvement with the National Association of Broadcasters and the Radio Television News Directors Association dealing with freedom of the press issues.