Broadcasting Services records
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials from Broadcasting Services, WKAR-TV, WMSB, and WKAR AM/FM. Included are programming guides, meeting minutes, Federal Communications Commission channel hearings, and photographic materials.
The Electronic Resources include digitized University Distinguished Professor videos from 2005 and 2007; a video of oral history interviews titled "Out of the Fields"; audio recordings of interviews of survivors and veterans of World War II living in Michigan (entitled: The War: Michigan Voices - The Home Front & Related Stories); and a film, "The War: Michigan Voices - European Theatre", another collection of interviews from WWII veterans, this time focusing on events overseas.
Dates
- Creation: 1920 - 2008
Creator
- WKAR (Radio station : East Lansing, Mich.) (Organization)
- Michigan State University. Broadcasting Services (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish material from this collection must be obtained from University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.
Historical Note
MSU Broadcasting Services is a part of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences and includes WKAR-TV, WKAR Radio, WKAR.org, Radio Reading Service, WKAR Ready To Learn, Interactive Video Services and WKAR Station Enterprises. Its mission is to connect people to powerful ideas that inspire personal growth, exploration of our world and positive change (source: www.wkar.org/about-us).
Extent
18 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Preservica Public URL
https://msu.access.preservica.com/archive/sdb%3Acollection|7206924a-53f8-49e7-bd86-a6b0aa3260f0/
Legal Status
Copyright: Michigan State University
Property Rights: Michigan State University
Source
- Estell, Dick (Donor, Person)
- Title
- Broadcasting Services Records
- Status
- 3 Ready For Cataloging
- Author
- Jessica Russell and Chelsea Bosma
- Date
- June 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- TypeCollection
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives and Historical Collections Repository
Conrad Hall
943 Conrad Road, Room 101
East Lansing MI 48824 US
517-355-2330
archives@msu.edu