Content Description
The collection includes National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) audiovisual and print material from annual conventions and conferences from 1923 to 2016, speeches of NAB personnel as well as testimonies before the Federal Communications Commission, research commissioned and/or collected by NAB, publications with advice to members on legal issues, legislative priorities, industry finances, employment, and public concerns (such as violence on television or appropriate children’s programming). The collection aslo includes surveys, market reports, handbooks, speeches, statements, and legal briefs on radio and television broadcasts primarily from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The NAB collection also includes materials from Broadcast Music Incorporated and the Television Information Office (both originally spun-off from NAB), as well as the Radio Advertising Bureau, the Television Bureau of Advertising, Radio-Television News Directors Association, and the National Broadcast Editorial Association, among other broadcasting-related organizations.
Audiovisual materials in this collection include conference recordings on audio cassette, audio reel, and VHS tape and are available upon request.