WPSX-TV, WPSU-FM, and Penn State Broadcasting records, 1954-2004.

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WPSX-TV, WPSU-FM, and Penn State Broadcasting records, 1954-2004.

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The bulk of this collection documents WPSX-TV from its inception in 1965. Documents include complete program logs/program boards and program files recording development of educational and cultural programs for central Pennsylvania's rural communities, records of educational programming for public school students, and correspondence courses offered through Penn State Continuing Education. Materials include proposals, budgets, and publicity for new public television programming, agreements with commercial and network content providers, files documenting facilities and technical equipment, and personnel records. Correspondence files are particularly informative, as are topical files, annual reports and strategic plans. Also included are course outlines with accompanying color 35 mm slides, student essays from competitions of the nationally syndicated Week in the News (WITN) program, legal documents, national viewer statistical reports, budgets and bills for use of teleconference equipment, scripts for news broadcasts, advisory board minutes, publicity and marketing files, and extensive historical documents for WPSX-TV. Materials documenting WPSU-FM are less extensive, consisting of strategic plans and other records dating from the mid 1990s to mid 2000s, and program and publicity files for the "Purple Rabbit" program.

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8084927

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Penn State Public Broadcasting

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WPSU-FM (Radio station : University Park, Pa.)

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WPSX-TV (Television station : University Park, Pa.)

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WPSU-FM began by offering educational programming in 1953 as WDFM, changing its call letters to WPSU in 1984. It began airing National Public Radio programming in 1986. In 1994, WPSU-FM became a full-time national public radio outlet and joined WPSX-TV to form Penn State Public Broadcasting (PSPB). WPSX-TV was founded in 1965. Penn State Public Broadcasting consolidated its call letters to WPSU-TV/FM in 2005. From the description of WPSX-TV, WPSU-FM, and Penn State Broadcasting recor...