ABSTRACT
Doing local broadcasting history is akin to listening to the scratchy storythat unwinds from the brittle tape of an old radio detective drama. In the beginning, you have only a few precious clues pointing to what really happened. Likewise, in local broadcasting, surviving documents, tapes, and people offer only selected traces pointing to how it was or what happened in the past. It is the historian’s job to go beyond these initial traces to tell a local broadcasting story based on facts validated using as many primary sources as possible.
