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Books, articles, records and pictures in the index about WUNC radio and television, found by its names in titles, catalog subjects and the index’s descriptions, and read one by one. Those held at OCPL come first.
George Curt Scheibner analyzes the audience for public radio by program preference, working from the 1986 WUNC listen survey. Topics include public radio and radio audiences in Chapel Hill, the rating of radio programs and college radio stations in the town. Dated 1988, 102 leaves with seven preliminary pages and a bibliography on the last two.
Interim report for 1977 to 1978 from a select committee of the North Carolina General Assembly on what the University of North Carolina television network needed to extend and improve its broadcast reach, following recommendations from the university's General Administration. Printed in Raleigh in 1978.
A 1978 planning document in which the General Administration of the University of North Carolina set out what the university television network would need to extend and improve its broadcast reach. Fifteen pages, published by the university. Topics include educational television stations at Chapel Hill and television transmitters in North Carolina, which places the report with the university's educational broadcasting.
George E. Bair's 1977 planning paper on public radio for North Carolina, including WUNC, the university's public radio station in Chapel Hill. Issued by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 20 pages.
Report on the in-school television experiment carried out in North Carolina during the 1958 to 1959 school year, with WUNC-TV at Chapel Hill as the broadcasting station. Seven leaves. Topics include television in education in the state, and it documents an early attempt to carry classroom instruction to schools by broadcast.
Exterior of the WUNC-TV building, the public television station's home, photographed in 1987. One print from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
North Carolina's Governor's Commission on Educational Television issued this report on October 10, 1962, thirteen leaves on educational broadcasting and television in education in North Carolina. Topics include WUNC-TV, the educational station based in Chapel Hill, which gives the document its Orange County connection. Printed in Raleigh by the commission itself.
WUNC, the public broadcasting station licensed to the University of North Carolina, as covered in newspaper clippings. An undated folder in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's vertical files.
A serial published by WUNC Radio in Chapel Hill under the one word title Listen, recorded from 2001 in illustrated volumes ranging from 23 to 35 cm in height. The title is taken from the cover.
Cookbook compiled for WUNC Radio and The People's Pharmacy, the health call-in program that began on the Chapel Hill public radio station, published by WUNC in 1990. The recipes run to 333 pages.
A listener bulletin from WUNC Radio in Chapel Hill, carrying program notes and highlights of the station's schedule. Five illustrated volumes are recorded, the earliest dated 1980, at 23 cm.
Study guides issued by WUNC-TV, the public television station at Chapel Hill, for the programs it broadcast into North Carolina classrooms. The series covers educational television programs and television in education in the state, and the guides gave teachers material to use with the in school broadcasts. Published by the station from 1976 in volumes of 22 cm.
Four page promotional leaflet from 1960 about WUNC-TV, the public television station at Chapel Hill, issued as the Carolina edition of Off-camera. Illustrations and portraits introduce the people behind the programs.
Study guide to the school-related programs broadcast by WUNC-TV, the Chapel Hill educational television station, during the 1960-61 school year. A 24-page booklet published by the station for classroom use of its broadcasts. Topics include television in education in North Carolina and the station itself, making it a record of early instructional television in the state, when WUNC-TV had been on the air for about five years.
A twelve page program guide for November 1960 from WUNC, the University of North Carolina station at Chapel Hill, published by the university. Topics include college radio stations in Chapel Hill and the station itself. A short printed piece that records what the campus station was broadcasting across a single month.
Promotional folder from 1960 describing what WUNC-TV offered viewers across North Carolina, issued by the university system. Four unnumbered pages with illustrations, measuring 26 by 33 centimeters. Topics include public television in the state and the Chapel Hill station, making it one of several pieces of station publicity that document the early years of educational broadcasting there.
Article reprinted from Broadcast News of February 1958 and issued by the Radio Corporation of America at Camden, New Jersey, on how WUNC-TV carried college teaching to viewers around the state. Pages 52 to 77 with illustrations and portraits. Topics include television in education in North Carolina and the Chapel Hill station, seen here from the equipment manufacturer's side.
Earlier publicity sheet for WUNC-TV, printed in 1957 when the station broadcast on channel 4, folded from a single sheet of two unnumbered pages with one illustration. Subjects include public television in North Carolina and the Chapel Hill station. Slight and easily lost, items like this one record the station in its first years on the air.
Report for 1956 from WUNC-TV, the educational television station in Chapel Hill, issued by the station itself. Ten pages and an unnumbered leaf with one map, 28 cm. WUNC-TV went on the air in January 1955, so this covers its first full year.
Supplement to the 1954 annual report of WUNC, the university radio station in Chapel Hill, dated January 27, 1954. It contains an organizational chart, a typical program schedule, a staff roster, a list of the station's supporters, and excerpts from letters and cards sent by listeners. One volume in various pagings with illustrations.
Annual report of WUNC, the radio station at Chapel Hill. Issued by the station in successive illustrated volumes measuring 28 centimeters.
An episode of The state of things, the WUNC radio program produced in Chapel Hill, from August 5, 2004. It includes interviews with Howard E. Covington Jr. and with Robert G. Anthony Jr. of the North Carolina Collection in the university library, and discusses the Hill family. David Crabtree is credited as well.
Twenty four items from the Sounds of the South radio program, 1991 to 1994, part of the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC, collection 20052-z. Subjects include bluegrass, blues, country and folk music, southern folklore and oral tradition, music festivals and women blues musicians, with WUNC in Chapel Hill, Wayne Martin, Thomas W. Hanchett and Lee Smith.
WUNC recording of the University Day address given on 17 October 1985 by William C. Friday, president of the University of North Carolina system, a year before he retired. From the American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection.
WUNC radio news report of 24 February 1984 on a joint thoroughfare plan for Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Carrboro Mayor Jim Porto, Chapel Hill Mayor Joe Nassif and the Chapel Hill transportation planner Danny Pleasant talk about working on it together. Fay Mitchell Henderson is credited. Part of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
Historian William E. Leuchtenburg, William Rand Kenan Professor of History and a leading authority on Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaks at UNC-Chapel Hill's 189th University Day on 12 October 1982 under the title 'Toward the Year 2000'. WUNC radio recording, American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection.
University Day address of 13 October 1981 by Raymond H. Dawson, UNC vice president for academic affairs, on the civil rights movement and the university system's desegregation settlement with the federal government. Recorded by WUNC radio in Chapel Hill; American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection.
Radio coverage by WUNC of University Day on 14 October 1980, when University of North Carolina system president William C. Friday installed Christopher C. Fordham III as chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill. Part of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection.
Seven audiocassettes from 1978 carrying 'New voices', a radio program associated with WUNC in Chapel Hill, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4036. The recordings are interviews and readings by American poets, among them Jaki Shelton Green, Judy Hogan, Amon Liner, T. J. Reddy and Michael Rigsby Revere.
Broadcast recordings of North Carolina folk music assembled in 1976 by the folklorist Daniel W. Patterson, 105 items in the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC, collection 20105. Topics include old-time and bluegrass playing, fiddle tunes, gospel and African American music, and Primitive Baptist hymn singing, with Tommy Jarrell, Dellie Norton and Cas Wallin named. The programs tie to WUNC in Chapel Hill and to the Festival for the Eno.
Announcement sheet from the University of North Carolina Extension Division setting out a full year of curriculum offered by television and correspondence study through WUNC-TV in Chapel Hill. A panel dates the session June 6 to August 13, 1960. Three unnumbered pages on a single sheet, issued at Chapel Hill for the Consolidated University for university extension.
Single sheet printed on one side, announcing the spring semester of the Consolidated University's television and correspondence curriculum, February 15 to May 28, 1960. The University of North Carolina Extension Division issued it at Chapel Hill, for courses through WUNC-TV, the university's television station.
Records of the University of North Carolina Television Network from 1949 to 1999: about 19,200 items, 24 linear feet of paper with 641 films and 1,003 videotapes, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40258. Topics include public and educational television in the state, WUNC-TV at Chapel Hill, the Center for Public Television and its trustees, and programs including 'Stateline', 'Crossroads on the hill' and 'Dr. Boyd and the Bible'.
Station records of WUNC in Chapel Hill, dated 1929 to 2004 with the bulk from 1970 to 1995: roughly 33,900 items across 39 linear feet of textual material, plus 2,708 audio recordings, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40278. Public radio and radio broadcasting in North Carolina are among the subjects, along with jazz programming, the program 'Gary Shivers on jazz', and the Federal Communications Commission.
WUNC radio interview, part one, with H. Bentley Renwick, who served UNC-Chapel Hill as an associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and as special assistant to the chancellor in 1977 and 1978. Renwick describes his plan for recruiting and keeping nonwhite students at the university. American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection; undated.
WUNC radio interview with H. Bentley Renwick, part two, undated, from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection. In 1977 and 1978 Renwick served UNC-Chapel Hill as an associate dean in Arts and Sciences and as a special assistant to the chancellor, and he shaped a plan for recruiting and keeping nonwhite students.
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