Radio broadcasting

Amateur Radio Club records

Record Group

Identifier: UA-12.3.21

Scope and Content The Amateur Radio Club records cover the time period 1924-1992, with the bulk falling between 1948 and 1989. Minutes of meetings, financial transactions, correspondence, and station and contest logs make up the majority of the collection. One bound volume contains early logs for WKAR (1924) and W8SH (1927-1931), as well as minutes of meetings (1932-1936), a list of operators (1927-1936), treasurer's reports (1933) and vibration experiment notes (1925). The records also include two boxes...

Dates: 1924 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1989

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan records

Collection

Identifier: 00243

Scope and Content

The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan records contains the Federal Communications Commission case proceedings of ACLU vs Gross Telecasting, Inc. which owned WJIM, WJIM-FM and WJIM-TV. The ACLU claimed Gross Telecasting, Inc. committed violations such as failure to make their license renewal public, clipping the credits of movies to show local news and commercials, and distortion of the news. The records contain transcripts of the proceedings, briefs, and appeals.

Dates: 1974 - 1983

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media records

Record Group

Identifier: UA-16.116

Scope and Contents

The collection contains surveys and reports about state governors and broadcast news, the Lansing Mexican-American community, and an audience study of the African American radio program "Takin' Care of Business". There is also a catalog of Michigan State University's classic radio programs which gives details of radio programs from the 1940s-1960s. The collection also includes brochures and annual reports.

Dates: 1956 - 1997

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Fine Tuning UA 3.3.5

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Serial-00297

Dates: 1972 - 2009

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

University Archives and Historical Collections records

Record Group

Identifier: UA-3.7

Scope and Contents The records of the University Archives and Historical Collections consist of brochures and flyers, published guides to the Historical Collections, a records control manual (1973), Disaster Plans, photographs, a time capsule, a DVD (2005) highlighting the Archives’ resources, and other publications.The Electronic Resources include images used in the University Archives and Historical Collections Calendar for 2003 and 2004; digital photographs and documents from the UAHC sponsored...

Dates: 1969 - 2019

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

WKAR Radio Broadcasting records

Record Group

Identifier: UA-3.3.5.3

Scope and Contents The records of WKAR Radio Broadcasting include production logs (1945-1946), radio scripts (1942-1952, undated), radio scrapbook poems (1948-1953), Special Courses by Radio schedules, Radio School of Biology materials, reports, news releases, audience surveys, and brochures. There is also a cassette of the seminar “Adventures in World Understanding” in which foreign students discuss their perceptions of international relationships. This collection also includes photographs. The bulk of the...

Dates: 1926 - 2009

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections