Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation records, 1930-1984.

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Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation records, 1930-1984.

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The Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation Records span a period from the first air date of WIS radio in 1930 to the merging of Orion Broadcasting in the early 1980s. The collection consists mainly of correspondence of corporate officers such as G. Richard Shafto, Charles A. Batson, W. Frank Hipp, Francis M. Hipp, Dixon Lovvorn, and Macon G. Patton, as well as station managers, stockholders and law firms. This record group also contains legal files dealing with Cosmos' relations with the Federal Commission, including several volumes of testimony by Cosmos officials in 1962 concerning the possible de-intermixture of UHF and VHF television signals. In addition, the collection holds numerous Federal Communications Commission regulations for the cable television industry. The establishment and early history of WIS is well documented, including a manuscript history of the station, "So Rich a Heritage," written by Miss Louis Lang in the 1960s. Many publications of Cosmos and its predecessors are found in the collection, such as "COSMOS-Politan," the collection newsletter, and annual reports to stockholders.

13.5 cubic ft. + oversize folders and photographs.

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6902553

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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Batson, Charles A.

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Lang, Louis,

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Hipps family.

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Liberty Corporation

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In 1961, Robert Ritchie was named Keeper of the Records with the responsibility to create an archives and archival management program for Liberty Life Insurance Company. Ritchie and others, particularly J. K. Davis, began soliciting and collecting historical and archival documents from employees and departments of the company. Mr. Davis wrote one of the first comprehensive histories of Liberty Life. In the early 1970s, Paul Bridges took over as head of the archives, which was formally known as t...

Lovvorn, Dixon C.

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South Carolina Broadcasting Company.

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Hipp, Francis M.

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Brown, Walter J. (Walter Jay), 1872-1960

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Walter J. Brown was born on July 25, 1903 in Bowman, Georgia, son of J. J. (John Judson) (1865-1953) and Captora Ginn Brown (1866-1956). Attended the Georgia Institute of Technology High School, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia. He married Georgia Watson Lee (died 1935), a granddaughter of Thomas E. Watson, in 1925. Subsequently he married Ruth Taylor (1916-1990) in 1941 (divorced in 1966) and Ann Revell Chadeayne Tinda...

Surety Broadcasting Company.

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Dow, Lohnes & Albertson

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Shafto, G. Richard

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Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation

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Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation dates from July 1930, with the establishment of WIS radio in Columbia, South Carolina by George T. Barnes. Barnes and several investors formed South Carolina Broadcasting Company in November 1930 as the parent company of WIS. The enterprise was sold within a year to W. Frank Hipp and The Liberty Life Insurance Company. Hipp reorganized the affairs of WIS and its parent company was re-chartered in 1932 as The South Carolina Broadcasting Company and placed under the...