how to find 1960s interview on local Hanford station?

[marilyn333]

Searching for info about how to find old interview done with "local Hanford radio stations" in approx. 1966. Any help much appreciated!

 

[fybush]

Substitute "Hanford" for "Boston" and pretty much everything here (which I wrote a decade or so ago) holds true for you, unfortunately:

http://www.bostonradio.org/faq.html

As for the stations themselves, however, one thing has remained true down the decades: radio stations are lousy archivists of their own history. Stations get sold, change format, move their studios, and little or no attention is paid to saving even the most basic of recorded material. Particularly in the recent deregulatory era, it's not unusual for a station to be on its third or fourth owner and second or third studio location in a decade! Even at big “heritage” stations, it is rare to find much in the way of archives. The author worked at WBZ in Boston in the mid-nineties, and can attest that the only recorded legacy of the station's then-75-year history consisted of a dozen or so reels of jingles and music beds tucked in a production room closet. While station audio was logged for legal purposes (at that time, on cassette tape; later on VHS HiFi tape and probably digitally now), the tapes were not kept for more than a year at most.

 

[SCV_Ears]

Substitute "Hanford" for "Boston" and pretty much everything here (which I wrote a decade or so ago) holds true for you, unfortunately:

http://www.bostonradio.org/faq.html

As for the stations themselves, however, one thing has remained true down the decades: radio stations are lousy archivists of their own history. Stations get sold, change format, move their studios, and little or no attention is paid to saving even the most basic of recorded material. Particularly in the recent deregulatory era, it's not unusual for a station to be on its third or fourth owner and second or third studio location in a decade! Even at big “heritage” stations, it is rare to find much in the way of archives. The author worked at WBZ in Boston in the mid-nineties, and can attest that the only recorded legacy of the station's then-75-ear history consisted of a dozen or so reels of jingles and music beds tucked in a production room closet. While station audio was logged for legal purposes (at that time, on cassette tape; later on VHS HiFi tape and probably digitally now), the tapes were not kept for more than a year at most.

And, if it's the station I'm thinking of (620 AM), currently off the air, odds are cut even more.

 

[michael hagerty]

And most smaller stations didn't run logger reels in the first place.

 

[ki6bkj]

And most smaller stations didn't run logger reels in the first place.

that station has been "off the air" for a long time I wonder what they are going to do with it.

 

[brettbutlerisok]

I see a few cars in the parking lot during the day. Somethings going on there.