Radio records remain an onsite resource
Digitisation and remote access differ.
- Event / announcement date
- 2026-07-17
The Library of Congress’s July 17, 2026 update reported more than 200 additional NBC Radio Master Book volumes in Stacks. It identified Stacks as its onsite-only platform for restricted digital content. The addition expanded digitised holdings, without announcing unrestricted home access. [1]
The Library’s guide describes master books as scripts, advertising and news copy, and music lists. Its collection included 2,530 microfilm reels. Documentation broadcast by WEAF or WJZ but produced elsewhere is absent from those stations’ books. That limits what absence from a particular volume can tell a researcher. [2]
An earlier Library exhibition shows why paper records matter: a December 7, 1941 annotated Pearl Harbor script carries announcer’s emphasis marks, while a program-analysis card records interruption of scheduled programming. These complementary records describe how news was presented, beyond merely establishing that an item existed. [3]
The source
- Library of Congress: July additions ↗
Source date 2026-07-17 · reviewed October 29, 2026 - Library of Congress: Broadcast records ↗
Undated reference · reviewed October 29, 2026 · No publication date is given for this reference page. A current-version or last-updated statement is not treated as its original publication date. - Library of Congress: Radio example ↗
Undated reference · reviewed October 29, 2026 · No publication date is given for this historical exhibition section. Historical object dates and website update dates are not original page publication dates.
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