Starter of this subject: Katherine Baer
Last post in this subject: 12/18/2000
Messages in this subject: 3
| Katherine Baer | 12/18/2000 3 replies |
| I have recently inherited a colleciton of OTR, all on cassette and pretty well labled. The collection includes Lux, KCRW Radio plays, comedy, variety and lots of drama. It looks like most of it was taped off of the radio. Is this collection worthwhile? Is there somewhere it can be donated? |
| Robert Flood | 12/18/2000 2 replies |
| Katherine - I see, from your return email address, you are at NPR... Why not contact Ed Walker at NPR station WAMU-FM in Washington, DC. to contribute these to the John Hickman Collection at the American University? Ed Walker is the Old Time Radio presenter at the station WAMU-FM number is 202.885.1030 Tell Ed that Bob Flood suggested you call... |
| Jim Stokes | 12/19/2000 1 replies |
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Donate? Sell them!
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| Garo Hagopian | 1/22/2001 0 replies |
| If all or the bulk of the shows you have were recorded off the radio, I think they would be of limited appeal to collectors. The only show I collect that are from airchecks are episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, because that--at the moment--is the only means of acquiring that show. It has not been commerically released like most other shows have, because its producer, Himan Brown, is still living, holds the rights to them, and at last check, was still looking for another radio venue to broadcast them. The shows you have would be great for personal listening, but there is already too big a proliferation of otr taped off the radio in circulation. It's been my experience that such shows are of generally lesser-audio quality, and are often edite |