Re: [IRCA] Broadcasting Yearbook folds

["HASCALL, DAVID CIV DFAS" <DAVID.HASCALL@xxxxxxxx>]

Being a poor college student (grades and finances LOL) in the 80's, I
asked the Librarian at IUPUI's library what they did with the previous
year's Broadcasting Yearbook's.  Her reply seemed terse and hateful, "we
incinerate them."  She saw the look on my face and she said "truthfully,
we can't sell them (they had book sales of disused books) nor can we
give them away because (the books) were granted to us". . . then she
said, "oh, hold on."  She took me down to the basement and right next to
the door to some kind of incineration and shredding device was a stack
of boxes.  She pulled out the yearbooks (one for Radio and TV/Cable
IIRC) and snuck them over to me.  A covert operation.  I felt like such
the criminal.  They would have been gone by the end of the day.  Lugged
those things around in my now crammed full book bag, all day.

I may have to see if they are still @ mom's house as David Gleason does
have some gaps.

73,
Dave in Indy

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Subject: [IRCA] Broadcasting Yearbook folds
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Bowker Publications has announced that the 2010 Broadcasting Yearbook is
the final one.  It was no longer of much use to me, but in days of yore
I spent many an hour with it in the Knoxville and University of TN
libraries, checking to see which Construction Permits may have kicked
in.  It and the Standard Rates and Data Spot Radio directories were
treasure troves of info about the names of owners, engineers, and other
station staff (Remember "news director"?  "sports director"? "program
director"?), useful for addressing reception reports and DX test
requests.

David Gleason's website has dozens of scanned Broadcasting Yearbooks;
the oldest is from 1935, so it had been around for at least 75 years.

RIP old buddy.



Steve Francis
Alcoa, Tennessee


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