October 17, 2023

TVNewsCheck: David Gleason Builds A Digital Archive Worth Honoring

New-to-me, from TVNewsCheck: David Gleason Builds A Digital Archive Worth Honoring. “Fully searchable and well organized, the database not only contains publications about broadcasting, but also of the related fields of advertising, media buying, media research and cable. Visitors to the site will also find music magazines, network and station publications, FCC regulations and decisions, fan magazines, radio enthusiast magazines, technical manuals, programming guides and ‘oddities.’”

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May 8, 2023

NiemanLab: How archivists are working to capture not just tapes of old TV and radio but the experience of tuning in together

NiemanLab: How archivists are working to capture not just tapes of old TV and radio but the experience of tuning in together. “Even today, more Americans use standard AM/FM radio broadcasting than TikTok. At a time when most Americans get their news from local TV stations and broadcast television networks, and radio remains pervasive, it might seem frivolous to express concern about preserving technologies so deeply embedded in daily life. Yet a media evolution is occurring, as paid subscription video streaming and audio services climb in popularity, and fewer Americans are consistently tuning in to broadcast media.”

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January 11, 2023

American Archive of Public Broadcasting: Mellon Foundation Awards GBH $16 Million Grant to Support the American Archive of Public Broadcasting

American Archive of Public Broadcasting: Mellon Foundation Awards GBH $16 Million Grant to Support the American Archive of Public Broadcasting . “The Mellon Foundation has awarded GBH $16 million to support the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a GBH collaboration with the Library of Congress, to digitize, preserve and make accessible historically significant public radio and television programs from producers and stations across the United States. This grant will be the largest private philanthropic grant GBH has ever received.”

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October 25, 2022

University of Sussex: Launch of online oral history collection reveals untold story of the BBC

University of Sussex: Launch of online oral history collection reveals untold story of the BBC . “David Attenborough, Esther Rantzen and Harold Wilson are just some of the prominent figures who appear in over 600 hours of recorded interviews from across the BBC, as part of a new project led by academics at the University of Sussex. The online catalogue, made available today, reveals a hidden history of the Corporation from its earliest years and has been unveiled as part of the BBC’s centenary celebrations. The unique new collection gives free public access to over 470 hours of audio and 159 hours of video interviews.”

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September 6, 2022

Commercial-News: Quick receives broadcast pioneer award

New-to-me, from Commercial-News: Quick receives broadcast pioneer award. “Doug Quick, retired TV weathercaster/news anchor, broadcaster, author and museum curator has been named Illinois Broadcasters Association’s 2022 W. Russell Withers Jr. Downstate Broadcast Pioneer…. Quick’s resume includes a 40-year career as commercial and industrial video voiceover talent, an author (Pictures on the Prairie: The First Ten Years of Mid-Illinois Television History) and created an online museum, Central Illinois’ On-Line Broadcast Museum …”

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July 19, 2022

Radio Times: BBC Rewind shares thousands of hours of archive content for centenary

Radio Times: BBC Rewind shares thousands of hours of archive content for centenary. “BBC Rewind, which has been established to mark 100 years of the BBC, is now the home of ‘tens of thousands of audio-visual recordings’, reflecting the life and events of the UK throughout the decades, making it the largest release of digital archive content in BBC history. Over 30,000 pieces of uncovered content will be publicly available on the website, with the oldest footage dating back to the 1940s.”

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November 12, 2020

Irish Times: Broadcasting regulator launches Irish media ownership database

Irish Times: Broadcasting regulator launches Irish media ownership database. “The site… was commissioned by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) from the Dublin City University (DCU) School of Communications. It allows the public to check the ownership of a database of media businesses that serve Irish audiences at either national, regional or local level, including international companies that have a presence here.”

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February 9, 2020

Illinois State University: Digitization of historical WGLT program guides informs broadcast history research

Illinois State University: Digitization of historical WGLT program guides informs broadcast history research. “Founded in 1966 as a student-run radio station, WGLT (the call letters originally stood for We Gladly Learn Teach) has been producing independent content and local journalism for over half a century. Users may now explore this rich history through a new digital collection available from ISU ReD, Milner Library’s institutional repository for the research, scholarship, and creative activities of the Illinois State University community.”

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March 23, 2018

Evrensel Daily: Turkish Parliament approved new law to regulate online broadcasting

Evrensel Daily: Turkish Parliament approved new law to regulate online broadcasting. “According to the new legislation, all broadcasters that want to provide radio, television, and other types of broadcasting services on the internet will have to obtain a licence from RTÜK, while broadcasters on other platforms will also require a transmission authorisation from RTÜK for their internet broadcasts. Previously, RTÜK licensing and regulation was necessary only for conventional radio and television broadcasters.”

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February 24, 2018

Radio Canada International: Public broadcaster music library closing, CD’s to be digitised, destroyed

Radio Canada International: Public broadcaster music library closing, CD’s to be digitised, destroyed. “Canada’s public broadcaster CBC (English) and Radio-Canada (French) is going through massive changes. With huge funding cuts from the government and increasing costs, this has meant equally massive staff and production cuts. Rapidly developing technological developments are also driving the changes.The broadcaster, with its stations across the country has, over the decades, amassed a vast collection of recorded music and other artefacts.”

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November 10, 2017

AAPB: American Archive of Public Broadcasting Releases Exclusive Collections

AAPB: American Archive of Public Broadcasting Releases Exclusive Collections. “The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) recently acquired three collections of original, full-length interviews from groundbreaking public television documentaries: Ken Burns’ The Civil War, Eyes on the Prize and American Masters. Only excerpts of these interviews were included in previously released, edited programs. Now, the full-length interviews from these landmark series will be available to view online at americanarchive.org or in person at the Library of Congress and at WGBH, preserved for future generations to learn about our nation’s history.”

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September 13, 2016

Huge Project to Gather and Digitize Radio Programming Is Underway

Underway: a huge project to gather and digitize old radio programming. “The Radio Preservation Task Force, overseen by the Library of Congress, is taking on a worldwide project to collect and catalog radio recordings. Missouri was chosen to be a pilot partly because of efforts already made in St. Louis as well as in Kansas City, though to a lesser extent. Josh Sheppard, the national director of the task force, says there’s never been a concerted effort by any one federal institution to trace where such recordings are stored or even to determine what is actually left. ‘We realized pretty quickly that at least 75 percent of recorded radio has been discarded or destroyed,’ he says.”

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January 27, 2016

Archive Of Religious Radio Programs and Broadcasts

New-to-Me: an online archive of religious-themed radio programs and broadcasts. “Compiled by former United Methodist communications staffer Mike Hickcox, the project started with the audio program holdings of the United Methodist General Commission on Archives and History. Now, though, the project has grown to include items from African Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Mennonite, Presbyterian, Quaker Roman Catholic, Salvation Army, United Church of Christ and other religious sources.”

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