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, [log in to unmask] writes: 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. -----Original Message----- 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 To: [log in to unmask] 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 -- Casey E. Davis Senior Project Manager, WGBH Media Library and Archives Project Manager, American Archive of Public Broadcasting 617-300-5921 | [log in to unmask] 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