Records of the nation's oldest broadcasting network, founded in 1926 as a radio programming service which went on to both radio and television broadcasting. Although incomplete at the highest levels, the collection offers representative coverage of operations in advertising, public relations, research, sales, and news and public affairs broadcasting from the 1930s through the 1950s. Included are correspondence, memoranda, reports, logs, scripts, promotional material and publications, scenic designs, photographs, a few production files, and a library of scripts and recordings; legal and financial records are scarce. Because the NBC finding aid is too large to open in most browsers, it has been split into 15 smaller documents. To get all fifteen, do a search for “National Broadcasting Company” as a “Collection Title” on the drop-down menu; or
click here. Part 3 covers the Central Files series' Correspondence sub-series for the years 1935-1938.
There is a use restriction on the entire collection; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.
