Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation records addition, 1939-1986.

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Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation records addition, 1939-1986.

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The files of this collection contain additional material documenting the growth and development of Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation and, its predecessor, The Broadcasting Company of the South. Documentation includes reports, meeting minutes, financial statements, long-range plans, proposed budgets, stockholder reports, files pertaining to Cosmos Broadcasting of Louisiana and Cosmos Cablevision Corporation / Cox - Cosmos, and WIS Radio & WIS-TV, WCSC Radio, WSFA-TV, WQXI Radio, and WTOL-TV records. In particular, this records addition contains supplemental documentation concerning The Broadcasting Company of the South, Community Antenna Television / Cable Television (CATV), Cosmos Cablevision, Cox-Cosmos Incorporated, the Federal Communications Commission, WDSU-TV, WIS Radio & WIS-TV, WSFA-TV, and WTOL-TV.

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Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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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...

Cox-Cosmos Incorporated.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n63r3c (corporateBody)

WTOL-TV (Television station : Toledo, Ohio)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k69nxj (corporateBody)

Hipps family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pp84mp (family)

Cosmos Cablevision Corporation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cc64m1 (corporateBody)

WCSC (Radio station : Charleston, S.C.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gf5z21 (corporateBody)

Cosmos Broadcasting of Louisiana Incorporated.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jx3jmx (corporateBody)

WIS-TV (Television station : Columbia, S.C.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61w0jwc (corporateBody)

Broadcasting Company of the South

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WIS (Radio station : Columbia, S.C.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61s1v7x (corporateBody)

WQXI (Radio station : Atlanta, Ga.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rn8cfm (corporateBody)

WDSU-TV (Television station : New Orleans, La.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tb6bvb (corporateBody)

WSFA-TV (Television station : Montgomery, Ala.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62z6994 (corporateBody)

Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bc8xkj (corporateBody)

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...