Oscar Reed, Jr. Papers

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Oscar Reed, Jr. Papers

1928-1994 (majority 1960s-1970s)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/21268

Oscar W.B. Reed, Jr. (1917-2009) began his career at Jansky and Bailey, engineering consultants based in Washington, D.C., in 1939. He played a role in the construction, operation and maintenance of Baltimore and Washington’s first FM radio station, W3XO. It was the third FM station in the country. He was an expert on the topic of frequency allocation and also became involved in planning cable systems. He also participated in the design of television broadcast facilities, and when Atlantic Research purchased the company in 1959, he became manager of the Broadcast-Television Consulting Department. He retired in 1984. The papers of Oscar Reed, Jr., cover the years 1928 to 1994. Types of documents in the collection include reports for various clients produced by J&B, J&B/ARC, and other firms. Prominently represented are correspondence, memoranda, notes and rough drafts, charts and graphs, maps, FCC and other government documents, articles, newsletters, minutes, news clippings, photographs, and negatives. Also included are materials belonging to Jansky and Bailey that came into Reed's possession after their deaths.

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Bailey, Stuart L.

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Reed, Oscar W. B., 1917-

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Broadcasting engineer. Head, Broadcasting and Television Dept., Jansky & Bailey, 1945-1960; Manager, Broadcast-Television Consulting Department, Jansky & Bailey/Atlantic Research Corporation; Head, Telecommunications Division, Atlantic Research Corporation; Engineering advisor, Educational Television Stations Division, National Association of Educational Broadcasters. From the description of Papers. 1928-1994. (University of Maryland Libraries). World...

Jansky & Bailey

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Atlantic Research Corporation

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Jansky, C. M.

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Reed, Oscar, Jr.

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Biography of Oscar Reed, Jr. Oscar Wellington Blucher Reed, Jr., was a lifelong resident of the Washington, D.C., area. He was born in the District in 1917 and graduated with a Bachelors degree in electrical engineering from the Catholic University of America in 1939. From August of that year until his retirement in 1984, Reed was associated with Jansky & Bailey, Consulting Broadcast Engineers, a company later acquired by the Atlantic Research Corporation (ARC). It b...