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Title
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KMBC: Serving Kansas City's Primary Trade Area
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Description
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History of the radio stations starting in "April 1921" as "one of America's pioneer broadcasting stations," with map of broadcasting area.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City Centennial 1850-1950 - Souvenir Program
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Description
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Souvenir program book the Kansas City centennial celebration. The book details the events, organizations involved, and people associated with the celebration. The book contains many advertisements and brief articles detailing the history of various Kansas City area businesses, organizations, and public figures. An index for the book can be found on page 144.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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New KMBC Station Links Radio and Pioneer Era
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Description
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Description of the new KMBC radio station and tower being constructed at 50th and Belinder. Includes a drawing and details and specifics of the building and part of the "vertical radiator," or tower. Arthur B. Church, vice-president and general manager of KMBC commented, "As a key station of the Columbia Broadcasting System, we create many chain programs daily in KMBC's studios in the Pickwick Hotel. These are broadcast by KMBC through a large group of Columbia chain stations, located northwest, west and southwest of Kansas City."
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Date
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1933-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Bea Johnson and Others
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Description
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Interior view of three women seated identified in the scrapbook as left to right: Mrs. R. G. Richner, Bea Johnson, and Mrs. W. O'Keefe. Photograph was taken at the Radio and Television Council of Greater Kansas City dinner meeting held November 29, 1955 at the Wishbone Restaurant located at 4455 Main Street. The speaker for the evening was Bea Johnson, Director of Women's Activities for KMBC-KFRM and KMBC-TV.Remarks from the dinner announcement: Bea Johnson was one of the two K.C. women who were permitted to attend the Big Four Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland. The chosen topic should be of equal interest to both men and women members of the Radio and Television Council. In July 1955 Bea took seventeen American broadcasters, writers, and telecasters from coast to coast to seven countries in Europoe on the 'Bea Johnson Radio and Television Tour.' Her lecture tours have taken her to almost every state of the United States from Washington State to Florida; from New York to California."
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Date
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1955-11-29
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Bea Johnson and Others
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Description
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Interior view of three women identified in the scrapbook as left to right: Mrs. R. G. Richner, Bea Johnson (KMBC), and Mrs. R. W. Bland. Photograph was taken at the Radio and Television Council of Greater Kansas City dinner meeting held November 29, 1955 at the Wishbone Restaurant located at 4455 Main Street. The speaker for the evening was Bea Johnson, Director of Women's Activities for KMBC-KFRM and KMBC-TV. Remarks from the dinner announcement: Bea Johnson was one of the two K.C. women who were permitted to attend the Big Four Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland. The chosen topic should be of equal interest to both men and women members of the Radio and Television Council. In July of 1955 Bea took seventeen American broadcasters, writers, and telecasters from coast to coast to seven countries in Europoe on the 'Bea Johnson Radio and Television Tour.' Her lecture tours have taken her to almost every state of the United States from Washington State to Florida; from New York to California."
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Date
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1955-11-29
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Bea Johnson
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Description
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Interior view of Bea Johnson, Director of Women's Activities for KMBC-KFRM and KMBC-TV. She spoke at the dinner meeting of the Radio and Television Council of Greater Kansas City held November 29, 1955, at the Wishbone Restaurant located in Kansas City, Missouri at 4455 Main Street. In July of 1955 Bea took seventeen American broadcasters, writers, and telecasters from coast to coast to seven countries in Europe on the "Bea Johnson Radio and Television Tour." She also attended the "Big Four Conference" held in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Date
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1955-11-29
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Deaths and Funerals
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Description
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Obituary for long time local radio and television personality Claude Dorsey. He died on August 3, 2002 in Kansas City. He was born on April 13, 1916, graduated from the University of Kansas in 1938 and joined the staff of KMBC Radio in 1939 as a news broadcaster. He retired from the staff of KMBC-TV in 1982 but continued to contribute editorials for the next 15 years.
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Date
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2002-08-04
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Dick Smith
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Description
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Photograph of Dick Smith speaking at the March 22, 1955, meeting of the Radio and Television Council of Greater Kansas City held at the Pickwick Hotel. The program for the event was called "Kansas City Athletics." Dick Smith is listed as Director of Radio, KMBC and as moderator for the event.
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Date
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1955-02-22
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Unidentified Speaker
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Description
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Unidentified man holding a script and standing behind a podium. One of the microphones has a KMBC Radio logo.
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Object Type
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Negative
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Title
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'Beverly Hillbillies' Creator Dies
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Description
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Notice of the death of Paul Henning, a television writer and producer and creator of the television show "The Beverly Hillbillies". Henning was 93 when he died March 25, 2005 and was a native of Independence, Missouri. He sang on radio station KMBC and was also an actor, disc jockey and news announcer for the station.
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Date
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2005-03-26
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Max Bicknell
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Description
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Portrait of Max Bicknell at desk. He was KMBC Radio News Director.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Easy Aces Radio Program
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Description
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Goodman and Jane Epstein Ace and two others playing cards as part of program "Easy Aces".
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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KMBC Radio
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Description
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Unidentified men with radio equipment, including KMBC microphone.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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KMBC Radio
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Description
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Interior studio view of recording session in progress.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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KMBC Radio
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Description
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Men and woman on stage during broadcast. Appears to be twenty-fifth anniversary of station.
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Date
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1945
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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KMBC Radio
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Description
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Unidentified group portrait.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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KMBC Radio
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Description
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Interior studio view of recording session in progress.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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KMBC Radio
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Description
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Men and woman on stage during broadcast. Appears to be twenty-fifth anniversary of station.
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Date
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1945
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Object Type
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Photograph
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