Librarians
Jeff Knapp, Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian
Website Resources
- Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture [University of Maryland, Special Collections]- Documents history of radio and television broadcasting
- Photocopies provided for a fee and at the discretion of the curator
- Collections include: Library of American Broadcasting Scripts Collection (1925-1991), National Public Broadcasting Archives - Media Bureau Resource Materials [Federal Communications Commission]- Historical and current articles, reports, blogs, and summary information from the Media Bureau of the FCC
- Radio History Documents, FCC [Federal Communications Commission]- Documents and collections of information about early radio broadcasting and radiotelegraphy (most in PDF format)
- The FCC: Seventy-Six Years of Watching TV (.pdf)- Timeline: FCC's first television license (1928) to digital TV
- The Interviews: An Oral History of Television [Television Academy Foundation]- 800+ video interviews with TV's legends and pioneers, 1996 to present
- Browse by name, show, topic, phrase, etc. - Smithsonian National Museum of American History: Collections- Suggested search terms: radio, television (filter by data source or other criteria)
- Includes two centuries of American communications artifacts, printing presses to modern technology - AdAge Advertising Century: Top 10 JinglesRanks 20th century jingle ads, with playable audio listed in order of rank
