Collections by Subject: Radio
A Selected List of Holdings in Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries
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American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Archives, 1947-1999 and undated. 15.50 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) is the preeminent organization for women in the broadcasting industries. AWRT was founded in 1951 in response to the National Association of Broadcasters' decision to dissolve its women's division. Today, AWRT has over 2,000 members and is a powerful advocate, educator and supporter of women in communications. The AWRT Collection, which spans the years 1947 to 1999, mainly documents the organizations' yearly national conventions.
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Irene Beasley Papers, 1908-1978. 4.25 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Irene Beasley (1904-1980) was a composer, singer, and radio personality nicknamed "the long, tall gal from Dixie." Beasley is best known for Grand Slam, her long-running musical quiz show which was broadcast from 1943 to 1953. Grand Slam was conceived, written, designed, produced, and emceed by Beasley. The collection documents Irene Beasley's broadcasting and singing career.
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Martha Brooks Papers, 1924-1991 and undated. 5.75 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Martha Brooks (1908-1999) was a legendary New York broadcaster whose "Martha Brooks Show" aired over WGY-Radio Schenectady from 1937 to 1971. Originally an actress, Ms. Brooks (nee Irma Lemke) began with pioneering radio station WGY in 1931. Later, Ms. Brooks became a TV pioneer, on WGY's sister station, WRGB-TV by writing, producing and often starring in live, on-air productions. The Martha Brooks Papers spans the years 1924 to 1991 and consists mainly of photos from many of the early TV productions on which Ms. Brooks starred (and sometimes wrote).
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Christopher Buchanan Papers, 1971-1977. 0.25 linear foot.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
As a freelance documentary producer in both public and commercial television, as well as public radio, Christopher Buchanan has contributed his producing skills to NPR, PBS, ABC, and the BBC. From 1986 to 1988, he produced stories for National Public Radio's news and information programs, and worked as an associate producer for "All Things Considered" for much of 1992. For the Public Broadcasting Service, Buchanan contributed to several programs in the series Frontline as either associate producer or field producer. These programs include the Peabody award-winning examination of the 1988 presidential candidates "The Choice," "Pentagon, Inc.," and "Betrayal of Democracy." In his job capacity, Buchanan conducted preliminary and on-camera interviews, and took care of all field production arrangements. The collection consists of Buchanan's 1974 senior thesis "The Struggle for the Soul of Public Television: A Case Study in Decision Making," interview notes, and newspaper clippings.
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Papers of Edwin G. Burrows, 1964-1988. 3.00 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Edwin G. Burrows started his public broadcasting career as program director at WUOM, Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1948. In 1961, he helped create the station WGVR, Grand Rapids. For WUOM/WGVR, Burrows worked as manager, and executive producer. He also interviewed about 500 individuals for a cultural arts program entitled "The Eleventh Hour." These individuals included Alvin Ailey, Robert Bly and Kurt Vonnegut. Burrows is noted nationally for his work in chartering National Educational Radio (NER), the radio division of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. Finally, he successfully lobbied for the inclusion of radio in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. The materials discuss the national goals for educational radio and the relations between radio and television within the National Association of Educational Broadcasters.
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Robert D.B. Carlisle Papers, 1962-1987 and undated. 6.25 linear feet including 138 audio cassettes.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Robert. D.B. Carlisle started in educational and public broadcasting career when he moved to WNDT, Channel 13, New York in 1962, its first year as a public TV station. He began as a Producer and then became an Executive Producer. In the spring of 1968, while still Assistant Vice Chancellor for Educational Communications for SUNY, Carlisle was asked by Ward B. Chamberlin and Frank Pace to work part-time for the brand new Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), created by an act of Congress in November of 1967. In the fall of 1968, Carlisle resigned from SUNY to become CPB's full-time Director of Special Projects. His work included creating a Career Fellow project and procedures for Community Service Grants. In early 1970, Carlisle became Director of Educational Projects and in 1971, Carlisle and his staff began to develop the Adult Learning Project Service (ALPS), a project to help adults prepare for the high school equivalency test. After leaving CPB in 1973, Carlisle continued his interest in educational television, publishing five books on the uses of media in education. The collection documents Carlisle's career at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as Director of Special Projects, his efforts to create the Adult Learning Program Service (ALPS) as Director of Educational Projects at CPB, his early career as a producer at WNDT in New York City, and various publications and background research.
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Robert L. Coe Papers, 1902-1975 and undated. 3.50 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Mr. Coe was an executive in charge of affiliate relations for both the Dumont (1952-1955) and ABC (1955-1967) television networks. He first operated an amateur radio station in 1917, and helped start station KSD in St. Louis in 1921. The collection documents his career in broadcasting and in teaching. It is processed and there is a finding aid at Robert L. Coe Papers.
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Edwin G. Cohen Papers, 1958-1990, and undated. 80.00 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Edwin G. Cohen had a distinguished career in educational and instructional television from 1955 to 1990. During those years, his positions included program associate for the Educational Television and Radio Center, director of the National Instructional Television Film Library, and executive director of the Agency for Instructional Television and its successor, Agency for Instructional Technology. The collection documents Cohen's role in the growth of operation of several educational and instructional film and television agencies.
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John C. Crabbe Papers, 1949-1991 and undated. 1.25 linear feet including 2 audiocassettes.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
From 1937 to 1958, John C. Crabbe worked for the College of the Pacific, Stockton, California where he started the first broadcasting degree major west of the Mississippi River. There, he also worked for KUOP-FM as its station manager, having assisted in putting the station on the air in 1949. During World War II, while in Baltimore, Crabbe lobbied the Federal Communications Commission for reserved FM channels for educational use which was finally granted in April 1952. Meanwhile, from 1950 to 1953, he also served as President of the Association for Education by Radio-Television. In 1961, Crabbe worked as a regional consultant to a National Defense Education Act survey on the need for television channels in education. Other positions held throughout his career include: general manager of KVIE-TV of Stockton, California (1958-1969), vice-president of the Western Radio and Television Association's Western Educational Network (1967-1968) and then president (August 1968 to 1969), director of University of Southern Colorado Telecommunications Division (1981), and general manager of KTSC, Pueblo, Colorado. The collection consists of publications regarding instructional television in California, television in education as well as the interaction between children and television. It includes the 1952 FCC allocation report, Crabbe's personal recollections of KVIE's history and an audio cassette of a 1949 interview with "Death Valley Scotty" and a 1952 recording of an Institute for Education by Radio and Television featuring the cast of "Kukla, Fran & Ollie."
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A. James Ebel Papers, 1941-1991. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
From 1937 to 1946, A. James Ebel worked as the chief engineer for station WILL at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. There, he designed the station's first FM transmitter while he was the executive secretary of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. Ebel then taught as an assistant professor of Engineering, and worked for a variety of stations--WMBD (Peoria), KOLN-TV/KGIN-TV (Nebraska), WDZ (Tuscola-Decatur), and KMEG-TV (Iowa). During the sixties, his career focused more on satellite transmission. In 1967, he chaired the CBS Affiliates Satellite Transmission Committee, which sought to achieve satellite interconnection between networks and affiliates for improved cost-efficiency and picture quality. Then, in 1970, he headed a similar committee that included all three networks. In addition, Ebel participated as a delegate to three World Administrative Radio Conferences in Geneva, Switzerland in 1971, 1977 and 1988. In 1986, he worked on protection of encryption of network programs fed to a station by means of fixed service satellites and chaired the New Technology Committee for the ABC, CBS, and NBC Network Affiliates. Currently, Ebel has turned his energies again to public broadcasting, participating on the committee working on the development of the U. S. System of HDTV (High Density Television) as a representative of the Nebraska ETV Commission The collection contains articles recounting the history of FM development and an autobiographical essay reflecting on the early history of educational broadcasting.
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Pegeen Fitzgerald Collection, 1938-1988 and undated. 6.00 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Pegeen Fitzgerald (c. 1911-1989) was a beloved New York broadcaster who, with her husband Edward, pioneered the "husband-and-wife-at-home" genre of radio talk. Their show was heard daily over the NYC airwaves for over 40 years. The collection mainly documents Ms. Fitzgerald's long radio career and her animal rights advocacy.
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Lee C. Frischknecht Papers, 1953-1993. 19.50 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Lee C. Frischknecht has spent his professional life in educational and public broadcasting. In 1964, he joined National Educational Television as its Director of Field Services. There, he coordinated relations with individual stations and aided in organizing the technical operations. Six years later, after overseeing the University of Utah's radio and television station, Frischknecht joined National Public Radio as Director of Network Affairs, performing many of the same functions he had at NET. In 1972, he became NPR's vice president, with duties of corporate and long-range planning. He became president in 1973, focusing most of his efforts on relations with member stations, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Congress. After leaving NPR in 1978 for many consulting projects, Frischknecht joined Arizona State University's station KAET in 1980 as Education Telecommunications Manager. There, he administered all educational and instructional facets of the station's operations until he retired in 1993. He died in 2005. The collection documents Frischknecht's work in public broadcasting from his early work with NET through his tenure at NPR, and ending with his work at KAET.
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Mildred Funnell Papers, 1932-1973 and undated. 10.00 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Mildred Funnell (1901-1977) was a Cleveland-based broadcaster of radio and TV, best known for her female-friendly programs like radio's "Mildred and Gloria" (co-hosted with Gloria Brown) and local TV's "The Idea Shop" (also with Brown). The collection, which spans the years 1932 to 1955, documents Ms. Funnell's career as both an actress and Ohio radio and TV personality.
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Betty Garde Papers, 1924-1978 and undated. 2.50 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Betty Garde (1905-1989) was an American actress best known for being the original Aunt Eller in Broadway's "Oklahoma" but whose career also include such radio programs as "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" and "The Aldrich Family" and work with Orson Welles and Eddie Cantor, among others. Ms. Garde also appeared on early TV in such programs as "The Honeymooners," "Decoy," and "The Twilight Zone." The collection documents Betty Garde's early stage career.
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Kenneth J. Garry Papers, 1970-1988 and undated. 7.00 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Kenneth J. Garry has worked in broadcasting at various locations including WUSI/WSUI at the Southern Illinois University and at WCTE (Cookeville, Tennessee) where he is currently General Manager. The collection documents the growth and early history of various public radio organizations.
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George Geesey Papers, 1965-1980 and undated. 6.00 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
In 1961, George Geesey became the first manager of WAMU-FM in Washington, DC. He brought this network experience with him when he became the Director of Operations (and Engineering) at National Public Radio. In 1976, he was assigned to the Satellite Interconnection System Project Office (SISPO) as Radio Coordinator. This collection documents Geesey's career at National Public Radio, particularly his time with NPR's Satellite Interconnection System Project Office (SISPO).
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Earl H. "Bud" Gillis Papers, 1961-1967. 0.25 linear foot.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Earle H. "Bud" Gillis, Jr. began his broadcasting career in the early 1940s as chief announcer at WDAN radio, Danville, Illinois, and as staff announcer at WGBF radio, Evansville, Indiana from January 1942 to September 1943. From December 1946 to October 1953, he worked for WHKC radio as a staff announcer, followed by work as a program manager at WLWC/Channel 4, Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, Columbus, Ohio from October 1953 to August 1962. Then, from August 1962 to March 1970, Gillis was the executive secretary for the Ohio Educational Television Network Commission. From January 1971 to November 1975, he served as educational consultant for the Ohio Department of Education and also the coordinator for the newly created Educational Media Center. Finally, from November 1975 to his retirement in June 1988, Gillis was vice president of development at the nation's first licensed public television station, WCET, TV 48, Cincinnati, Ohio. He maintained an on-air presence as "Uncle Bud" on children's programs. The collection documents Gillis' involvement with the Ohio Council on Educational Television, and Ohio educational television in the 1960s.
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Barton L. Griffith Papers, 1954-1988 and undated. 7.50 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Barton L. Griffith began his broadcasting career working for stations WIBW, KTOP, and WREN at Topeka, Kansas as an announcer, sales representative and promotion director from 1947 to 1950. Five years later, he joined National Educational Television as the Director of Distribution and Station Relations. His professional career also included consulting work with various organizations such as the Ford Foundation, the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Finally, Griffith actively participated on many educational councils and organizations. Particularly, he chaired the Speech Association of America's Radio-TV-Film Interest Group, belonged to the National Association of Educational Broadcaster's Board of Directors (1962-1966) and to the International Television Association's Executive Council (1982-1990) His main interests throughout his career have been involvement in innovative higher education programs utilizing telecommunications and the improvement of teaching and learning through radio, film and instructional television. The collection contains monographs and correspondence regarding instructional television and educational television technologies.
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William G. Harley Papers, 1942-1965. 0.25 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
William Harley started his broadcasting career in the 1940s as program director of Wisconsin Broadcasting System. Then, from 1950 to 1952 he was program coordinator of Ford-National Association Educational Broadcasters' Adult Educational Radio Project. From 1960 to 1975, he was president of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB). During that time, Harley was also director of the Joint Council on Educational Telecommunications (JCET) and its president from 1973 to 1975. From 1981 to 1985, Harley chaired the Peabody Awards Board. Finally, in 1989, Harley served on the national committee of OPT IN America, a nonprofit public advocacy group dedicated to promoting the development of fiber optic technology for home and school. The collection contains part of a NAEB proposal for funding as well as speeches of former NAEB presidents Frank Schooley and William Harley on professionalization and future of educational broadcasting.
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Fran Harris-Tuchman Collection, 1946-1996. 32.00 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Fran Harris-Tuchman (1915- ) began her broadcasting career as a pioneering member of the all-female WATTS group who kept what is now WLS-TV on the air throughout the second world war. She later went on to be the first woman to head a television division for a major advertising agency and to found her own highly successful ad agency, Harris-Tuchman Productions. The majority of the collection consists of client files from Mrs. Harris-Tuchman's production company and production elements.
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Burt Harrison Papers, 1977-1982. 5.00 linear feet including 65 audiocassettes.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Burt Harrison spent most of his broadcasting career in the state of Washington. He was station manager of KWSU, Washington State University at Pullman's radio station from 1959 to 1976. During this time he served on the boards of National Association Educational Broadcasters (NAEB), National Educational Radio (NER), and the Association of Public Radio Stations. In addition, Harrison lobbied for the inclusion of radio in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. In 1977, he received the first Edward R. Murrow Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. After retirement, Harrison and his wife, Dee, taped 42 oral history interviews for the Public Radio Oral History Project funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The collection consists of audio cassettes, verbatim and final transcripts of interviews for the Public Radio Oral History Project. The interviewees discuss their roles and memories of public radio.
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Presley D. Holmes Papers, 1947-1984 and undated. 3.50 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Presley D. Holmes' broadcasting career ranges from being director of broadcasting at WOUB (Athens, OH) from 1962 to 1970 to working for the National Association of Educational Broadcasters as director of the Educational Television Stations Division. He was also a member of the "six-pack," which advised the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on the structure and formation of the Public Broadcasting Service. In addition, he worked for PBS in 1973 as Director of Planning and Research and for National Public Radio (NPR) as programming vice president from 1974 to 1977. The collection documents Holmes' work in instructional and public broadcasting.
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Samuel C.O. Holt Papers, 1951-1995 and undated. 33.50 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Samuel C. O. Holt started his public broadcasting career in 1969, when he directed a Public Radio Study, commissioned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Ford Foundation. This study "outlined a course of action followed by CPB in developing a national system of public radio." From 1970 to 1973, he was Coordinator of Programming at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). There, he developed and oversaw PBS's national program service; programming included Masterpiece Theatre, Firing Line, Zoom, and The Electric Company. He also was responsible for the oversight of the development of closed captioning and for initial efforts in the coordination of educational programs for classrooms. In 1977, Holt joined National Public Radio as Senior Vice President for Programming and directed the Programming Division until 1983. There, he created new programming services, including the new shows Morning Edition, NPR Playhouse, The Sunday Show, and NPR Plus. In addition, he expanded news coverage, developed the Public Radio Audience measurement system, began educational services, and initiated NPR's cassette marketing. The collection documents Holt's work as project director of the Public Radio Study from 1967 to 1969, as PBS's Coordinator of Programming from 1970 to 1973 and as NPR's Senior Vice President for Programming from 1977 to 1983.
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Mona Kent Papers, 1940-1988 and undated. 31.00 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Mona Kent (1909-1990) was a script writer for both radio and television, having written hundreds of scripts for the radio serial "Portia Faces Life" and contributing scripts to TV's "Captain Video" series. The collection primarily documents Kent's work on the radio soap "Portia Faces Life" from 1940 to 1956.
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Library of American Broadcasting Scripts Collection, 1925-1991. 10.5 lin. ft..
Location: Mass Media and Culture
The Library of American Broadcasting Scripts Collection is a collection of radio and television scripts gathered from several sources and donations by the original staff of the Library of American Broadcasting. Dating from 1925 to 1991, these scripts are the actual scripts used by radio and television performers. Many of the scripts contain the hand-written markings the performers created as they were preparing the script for broadcast. These scripts document almost seventy years of radio and television broadcasting and represent a variety of genres, including comedy, drama, soap operas, quiz programs, news programs, and music programs.
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Lisle L. Longsdorf Papers, 1925-1974 and undated. 0.25 linear foot.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Lisle Longsdorf served as station manager of KSAC from 1927 to 1953. This job included financial, production and broadcasting, and research work. He directed the preparation and production of a daily 15-minute script service to seventy cooperating commercial radio stations in Kansas. He also planned and broadcast about 25 to 30 field programs each year in covering educational meetings, field days, and tours. In addition, he scheduled and supervised about 100 taped educational radio shows on campus for visiting commercial radio station interests and served on study committee in proposed development of education by television from a college-owned television outlet. The collection documents Longsdorf's career at Kansas State College Extension Service and at KSAC.
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Bernard Mayes Papers, 1912-2001. 1.75 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
The Bernard Mayes Papers, which cover the period 1912-2001, document Maye's broadcasting career at KQED (San Francisco, CA), National Public Radio (NPR) and at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The collection also includes Mayes' personal collection of articles and papers documenting the history of public broadcasting.
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Donald R. McNeil Papers, 1930-1988 and undated. 41.50 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Donald R. McNeil worked much of his life in academia. From 1965 to 1968, McNeil was Chancellor of the University Extension Program in Madison, Wiscsonsin, during which time he lobbied for the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities. In 1968, McNeil received the first Emmy given to a public television station (WHA-TV) for his series "Pretty Soon Runs Out" - a forum on integration and race relations. From 1969 to 1975, McNeil served as Chancellor of the University of Maine System. During that time, he participated in the creation of the Public Broadcasting Service and was elected to the board in 1973. In 1978, McNeil became the president of the University of Mid-America (UMA) which used electronic media to produce long distance learning courses marketed in eleven mid-west universities. Later, using the British Open University as a guideline, McNeil began to design and research an American Open University which would give credit and degrees based upon its own curriculum using technology as a classroom. After the New York Institute of Technology agreed to consider the American Open University as a long distance arm of its college, McNeil served as Provost from 1983 to 1987. Donald R. McNeil began work on the National Public Broadcasting Archives in 1988, and served as its director from 1990 to 1993. The collection concentrates on McNeil's involvement in the University of Mid-America and the American Open University.
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Edythe Meserand Papers, 1900-2000 and undated. 11.50 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Edythe Meserand (1908-1997) began her broadcasting career in 1926 at NBC, but had her greatest influence at WOR where she produced the first true radio documentary and began the station's long-running Children's Christmas Fund Drive. She was a founding member of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) and served as the organization's first president. The majority of the collection pertains to various radio and television programs she produced and to the early years of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT).
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Archives of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB), 1975-1994. 26.00 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
The National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) is a national, grass-roots, non-profit organization which has served non-commercial community-based radio stations since 1975. The collection documents NFCB's adminstrative activities, its work with member stations and its program exchange service. Materials in this collection include articles, audio tape cassettes, audio tape reels, correspondence, fliers, legal documents, newsletters, newspapers, pamphlets, papers, press releases, program guides, publications, and reports. A large part of the collection consists of NFCB member station files and materials concerning NFCB's program exchange service.
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National Public Radio Archives: Office of the General Counsel Files, 1970-1986 and undated. 12.75 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Incorporated in 1970, National Public Radio produces and distributes public radio programming. The Office of the General Counsel handles NPR's legal affairs in a variety of issues including music rights and labor law. Materials include correspondence, reports and legal papers.
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Louisa A. Nielsen Papers, 1976 and undated. 0.50 linear foot.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
From 1976 to 1979, Louisa A. Nielsen worked for National Public Radio as director of the Programming Department's Educational Programming Services Division. Her responsibilities included developing and marketing the NPR Audio Cassette Service, member station programming and radio services for the blind. From 1979 to 1982, she was the program officer of Media Programs for the National Education for the Humanities. There, she directed the development of cultural broadcast programming in the humanities for NPR and PBS. The collection documents the Educational Services Study Project undertaken by National Public Radio in 1976.
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Morris S. Novik Papers, 1940-1992. 5.00 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Morris S. Novik entered the field of broadcasting in 1932 when he took over the management of the radio station WEVD in New York. During this period he founded the University of the Air. In 1938, he accepted a position as director of communications for the city of New York, and director of station WNYC. While in this post, Novik coined the term "Public Broadcasting". He also became involved in the genesis of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, serving as its first executive secretary from 1941 to 1948. After leaving WNYC in 1946, Novik helped establish radio stations in Detroit and Cleveland. The collection focuses on Novik's career in public broadcasting.
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Pacifica Foundation Records, 1946-1991. 13.50 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Founded in 1946 by Lewis Hill, Eleanor McKinney and others as a noncommercial, educational, cultural radio in the San Francisco Bay area, the Pacifica Foundation has continued to flourish as a completely listener-supported radio network. The goal behind having listener support was to insure a grass-roots forum that would support diversity, freedom of speech, and promote programs according to what the listeners want, not what a corporate sponsor wants. Hill's strong beliefs in open communication and freedom of expression helped Pacifica set precedents concerning freedom of speech in broadcasting. Besides the pioneer station, KPFA (Berkeley), Pacifica radio consists of KPFK (Los Angeles), WBAI (New York), KPFT (Houston), and WPFW (Washington, DC). The collection traces the founding of Pacifica and the development of the listener-support system for radio.
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Helen Sioussat Papers, 1913-1992 and undated. 32.75 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Helen Sioussat (1902-1995) was Director of the Talks and Public Affairs Department at CBS from 1937 to 1958, where she oversaw as many as 300 broadcasts a year addressing such topics as government, labor, education, religion, civil rights and international affairs. She would go on to create the television program, "Table Talk," TV's first roundtable discussion show. The majority of the collection consists of correspondence sent to Ms. Sioussat over the course of her career.
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Special Collections in Mass Media and Culture Serials Collection, 1910-2012. 1,557 lin ft..
Location: Mass Media and Culture
The Special Collections in Mass Media and Culture Serials Collection contains fan magazines, academic journals, industry trade magazines, yearbooks, and boudn press releases documenting the radio, television, advertising, journalism, film, and humor from the early 1900's to the present. Many of the serial titles are bound while others are unbound.
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Susan Stamberg Collection, 1921 - 2001 and undated. 26.00 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Susan Stamberg is best known as a co-host on National Public Radio's All Things Considered from 1971 to 1986 and as the host of Weekend Edition Sunday from its inception in 1987 to 1989. In her later career in the 1990s she worked as a cultural reporter on various NPR newsmagazines. The bulk of the collection documents Stamberg's career at WAMU in Washington, DC and her career at NPR from 1971 until 2000. It also contains materials from numerous other projects, including her books Every Night at Five, The Wedding Cake in the Middle of the Road, Talk, and her other writings.
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Ralph W. Steetle Papers, 1942-1981. 2.50 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Ralph Steetle began in educational radio at Louisiana State University where he was its director of broadcasting, and helped build WLSU, one of the first educational FM stations in the south. In the early 1950s, he volunteered to work for the Joint Council on Educational Television (JCET) as an associate director, but became its executive director when Richard Hull left. The Joint Council on Educational Television served as an advocate organization for all the channels. While working for JCET, Steetle worked on the FCC Third Report and Order. This report tentatively set aside 209 frequencies, and became the Sixth Report of 1952, which then allowed 209 communities to speak to the FCC. The collection chronicles the early history of the Joint Committee on Educational Television and Steetle's involvement in this organization.
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Julie Stevens Papers, 1940-1980. 7.00 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
Julie Stevens (1916-1984) was an American actress best known for playing the lead role on the radio soap opera "The Romance of Helen Trent." She performed this role for over 15 years. Ms. Stevens also appeared as a newspaper reporter on the TV series "Big Town," from 1951-1952. The bulk of the collection documents Ms. Stevens' early theatrical career and her long radio run as Helen on "The Romance of Helen Trent."
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Television and Radio Station Files, 1925-1995. 14.00 linear feet.
Location: Mass Media and Culture
The station files consist of a range of materials, including clippings, promotional brochures, pamphlets, and market data from radio and television stations throughout the United States. The collection was created to facilitate research on specific TV and radio stations.