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Related Guides

Television and Radio History: A Resource Bibliography

News & Newspaper Sources

The Paley Center for Media iCollection

Databases

  • World News Connection [Text Content Only]
    • Non-US media sources
  • FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) [Text Content Only]
    • First release: Series 2 includes Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) 1974-1980; South Asia (SAS) 1980-1987; Africa (Sub-Sahara) (AFR) 1987-1988; Sub-Saharan Africa (AFR) 1988-1996
  • Academic Search Complete
    • Multi-disciplinary database with full-text periodicals, trade publications and peer-reviewed journals
    • Includes monographs (books), reports, and conference proceedings
    • Many articles in PDF format
  • LexisNexis Academic - Transcripts [Text Content Only]
    • 1980-to date
    • Many transcript sources
    • Radio news programs
  • Access World News (NewsBank) [Text Content; Limited Streaming Video]
    • News programming from The Associated Press, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, local affiliates of ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox, as well as coverage from Canadian Broadcasting, Agence France-Presse and more
    • News Transcripts

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Websites

  • ComRadio
    • Operated by the College of Communications at Penn State
    • May also be heard on Channel 6 of the University Park Cable TV system
  • News Sources from Pennsylvania via Kidon Media-Link: 
    • Scroll to "Broadcast News" to find radio stations
  • WPSU
    • Find broadcasts from this local broadcast station
  • National Public Radio [NPR] 
  • Public Radio International [PRI]
    • Serves audiences with distinctive programming that provides information, insights and cultural experiences essential to understanding a diverse, interdependent world
  • Voice of America
    • More than 1,000 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 115 million people
  • Radio-Locator
    • Links to over 10,000 radio station web pages
    • Over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world
  • Radio Station World: Your Global Station Directory 
    • Informational directory dealing with the radio broadcasters worldwide
    • Include listings of local radio stations on the web
    • Radio station that offer streaming webcast services
    • In depth listings of local radio broadcast stations including digital radio throughout North America
  • Poynter.org
    • Provides information and stories about television journalism
    • Promotes excellence in journalism
  • The Paley Center for Media
    • Nonprofit organization founded by William S. Paley in 1975 
    • Collects and preserves television and radio programs and to make these programs available to the public
  • Radio Days
    • Radio clips from broadcasts from the 1940s through the 1960s
  • MBC Archives (Museum of Broadcast Communications)
    • Access to over 7,00 digitizes TV and radio programs from the MBC archives
    • Registration (free) is required