New Resource Alert!: Newly Digitized Historical KUAC (Alaska) Radio Programs Now Available Online

Thanks to a Recordings at Risk grant through the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), the Oral History Department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has had 241 historical KUAC (Alaska) radio programs professionally digitized and added to their collection. The radio programs include Chinook, Homefires, I Didn’t Know That, Conversations with Susan McInnis, and Sundays at Noon.

CFP Radio & Audio Media Area, Popular Culture/American Culture Conference

CFP Radio and Audio Media Area, PCA/ACA Annual Conference, April 5-8, 2023, San Antonio

The radio and audio media area provides a forum for scholars, practitioners, and artists of what Michelle Hilmes (2013) calls soundwork: “the entire complex of sound-based media that enters our experience through a variety of technologies and forms.” Its forms include, but are not limited to, journalism, narrative nonfiction, audio and radio drama, sports, podcasts, as well as films and TV adapted from radio or podcasts.  

CFP Radio and Audio Media Area, Popular Culture/American Culture Assoc. Conference

CFP Radio and Audio Media Area, PCA/ACA Annual Conference, April 5-8, 2023, San Antonio

The radio and audio media area provides a forum for scholars, practitioners, and artists of what Michelle Hilmes (2013) calls soundwork: “the entire complex of sound-based media that enters our experience through a variety of technologies and forms.” Its forms include, but are not limited to, journalism, narrative nonfiction, audio and radio drama, sports, podcasts, as well as films and TV adapted from radio or podcasts.  

BBC Radio 1922-2022 - Journal of Radio and Audio Media (JRAM) - Call for papers

(Editor's note: Reposted from the Communication History listserv.)

Deadline for submission: February 1, 2023

On 18 October 1922 the British Broadcasting Company was formed in order to make use of the new technology of radio broadcasting for domestic use. The company started regular radio broadcasts on 14 November and in January 1927 it was formed into the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Family Planning Association, Public Relations and Mass Media in early-mid 20thC Britain

***with apologies for cross posting***

Dear H-Histsex List Members,

RE: British Family Planning Association, PR and TV: 1950s

Members may be interested in a new paper on the British Family Planning Association's first foray into broadcast television as part of a planned Public Relations drive in the mid-1950s:

Borge, Jessica. “Bandwidth lost: family planners and post-war television” Corporate Communications. Special issues on PR history 25(4) 2020, 655-68.

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