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Newspaper Clippings

 Series — Box: 39

Scope and Contents note

From the Collection:

The administrative records of KLCC include correspondence and memos, advisory board and staff meeting records, FCC ownership records, construction grant records, and financial records. Also included are records kept by Cheryle Hawkins who was a KLCC board member 1976-1987, and “The Earlier Days at KLCC,“ a personal memoir about KRVM and KLCC written in 1982 by Roger J. Houghlum, founding director of the station.

The records of the public relations department include press releases, publicity and promotion records, program guides and brochures, and surveys. Marketing and fundraising records include newspaper and television advertisements, radiothon and thonbuster fundraising campaigns, event records including the KLCC Garden Tour, Eugene Celebration, Oregon Country Fair, Microbrew Festival and special broadcasts or concerts by the Grateful Dead and Garrison Keillor and others.

The Program Logs and News Department Records contain a sampling (seven daily logs per quarter, most often from a week in January, April, July, and October, but sometimes other months) of program and station logs, 1996-2006. Program logs are daily inventories of programs broadcast from sign-on to sign-off. Station logs are records kept by station engineers concerning checks on equipment, lights, and power and radio emergency broadcast tests.

News Department Records include audience data, calendars, correspondence by Alan Siporin, and schedules, scripts, and Oregon Country Fair records kept by Trip Sommer.

The Audio and Video Recordings contain a rich and varied collection of cassette and reel-to-reel recordings of news, music, and advertising and promotional audio and video recordings. The news recordings include compilations of news stories from 1985-1994 as well as individual recordings.

Northwest Passage began broadcasting in 1985 with Don Hein as the host. Since 1988 Tripp Sommer has been host. Northwest Passage is a local and regional newsmagazine with newscasts, feature reports, arts and book reviews, interviews, commentary, and analysis of local and regional issues. The cassette tape recordings include interviews and news stories about local events such as the Kip Kinkel-Thurston High School shooting, local political events and candidates, community events and topics, the Rajneeshpuram, a controversial cult/community in north-central Organ in the 1980s, forestry, and music and musicians.

Dates

  • Creation: 1968-2006

Creator

Conditions Governing Access note

There are no access restrictions. The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 50 Containers (1-39: records boxes; 40-50: rolls)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Lane Community College Archives Repository

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Eugene OR 97405 US