Contact the Library of Congress. Much of the National Education
Television distributed programing - the film and tape "network" that preceded PBS -
eventually found its way to the LoC. I had a hand in it in the 1980s.
 
Alan Lewis
Washington, DC
 
 
In a message dated 8/22/2016 4:33:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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A while ago while compiling some extended discographies, I was led to
believe much of the early programming prepared for public TV
appear to no longer exist.
In particular, WHYY in Philadelphia and the American Folklore Society
produced a series of programs
hosted by Dr.Tristram Coffin "LYRICS & LEGENDS". These were available as
16mm films from Indiana University.
Also, the wonderful series of programs by ragtime pianist MAX MORATH (I
think for Channel 13 NY/NJ) tracing the history of
20th century popular music, jazz, ragtime, theater are mostly missing.
Does anyone know if these particular series DO EXIST somewhere ??
Is there any organization actively attempting to recover and preserve NET
material ??
Thanks!
Thomas.





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From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Casey Davis
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 2:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Public radio archives

Thank you Josh and Sam! Steve and I chatted last Friday.

I’ll also take this opportunity to share some historic content with you
all. Many of you are probably aware that Saturday was National Radio Day. In
celebration, we added more than 500 additional historic radio programs to
our Online Reading Room, including programs from Vermont Public Radio, WERU
Community Radio, and many series distributed by the National Association of
Educational Broadcasters, which was contributed to the American Archive of
Public Broadcasting by the University of Maryland and digitized in our
last major digitization project. A list of series with links to the online
media is available here:
https://americanarchivepb.wordpress.com/2016/08/20/celebrating-national-radio-day/

Best,
Casey

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Casey E. Davis
Senior Project Manager, WGBH Media Library and Archives Project Manager,
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
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On 8/22/16, 2:16 PM, "Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List on
behalf of Josh Shepperd" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Please permit me concur with Sam that Alan Gevinson, Karen Cariani, Casey
Davis, and Rachel Curtis are doing important work with the history of
public broadcasting preservation, digitization, and education with the
American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

Best,

Josh Shepperd, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor of Media & Communication
Catholic University, Washington D.C.

Director - Radio Preservation Task Force
National Recording Preservation Board, Library of Congress