UUM_Accn0990 Inventory of the Timothy L. Larson papers papers, 1850-2012 Larson (Timothy L.) papers Finding aid created by Manuscripts Division staff and Maggie Anderson Manuscripts Division, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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ACCN 0990 Larson, Timothy L. Timothy L. Larson papers papers 1850-2012 66 boxes 32.5 linear feet The Timothy L. Larson papers papers (1850-2012) consist of materials related to the history of communications in Utah and the United States. Collection materials are in English.

The Timothy L. Larson papers consist of materials related to the history of communications in Utah and the United States, including historical papers of Bonneville International Corporation, KSL, and other radio and television stations; interviews with and biographical information about significant characters in communications including Philo T. Farnsworth, Don Gale, Arch Madsen, and Keith Farr; correspondence regarding the Cooley Oral History Project (of which Larson was a part); Federal Communications Commission license applications and cases; and student work from his tenure as professor at the University of Utah, including dissertations and theses. Personal materials of Larson include paperwork for the Cooley Oral History Project, broadcast industry information, student work, and professional correspondence. Oversized boxes contain several historical copies of Utah newspapers covering events such as the Hindenburg disaster, the John F. Kennedy assassination, the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the sinking of the Titanic.

Arranged by subject and date.

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Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Donated by Tim Larson in 1987 and 1994.

Donated by Tim Larson in 2013.

Processed by Manuscripts Division staff in 1992 and 2013.

Addendum processed by Maggie Anderson in 2013.

Photographs and audio-visual materials were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

See also the Everett Cooley oral history project collection (ACCN 0814) to review the transcripts of the oral history interviews by Tim Larson.

 Larson, Timothy L.--Archives Television broadcasting--Utah Broadcast journalism--Utah Television broadcasters--Utah--Interviews Media and Communication Oral history interviews from Communications 533 1987-1999 1 1 Philo Farnsworth 1 2 Joe Lee documentary 1 3 Dan Bammes 1 4 Gordon Acker 1 5 Jim Dabakis interview 1 6 Milton Davis 1 7 Bob Dobbs 1 8 Mark Eubank 1 9 Brent Feulner 1 10 Roy Gibson 1 11 John Greene 1 12 Henry Hilton 1 13 Paul James 1 14 Richard Rees 1 15 Del Williams 1 16 Robert G. Salter Broadcasting Materials 2 1-11 Channel 14 Television applications, Salt Lake Broadcasting 2 12-13 Wasatch Broadcasters, Incorporated, Civil Leader Surveys 2 14-16 Civic leader surveys 2 17 Channel 14 Television application, Salt Lake Broadcasting 3 Master's thesis materials and notes 4 1 Conrad Glenn Page Smith, Selecting a Source of Local Television News in the Salt Lake City SMSA 1980 4 2 Amy Schnapper, The Distribution of Theatrical Feature Films to Television 1975 General personal materials 5 1 Alpha Epsilon Rho roster 1946-1978 5 2 General personal materials 1953-1999 5 3 Bibliographic materials 1967-1991 5 4 General correspondence 1968-1991 5 5 Book contract 1971-1988 5 6 Paper to be presented before the National Cooperative Cable TV Conference 1973 5 7 Notes 1984 5 8 Magid Media Trends 1985-1986 5 9 Thank-you letters for oral history project 1988-1991 5 10 Research papers 1989 5 11 General correspondence 1990-1992 6 1 General educational materials 1999-2010 6 2 "Larsen's Wirth-Watching Historic Broadcasting Theater" 2007 6 3 Keith Farr broadcasting library 2008 6 4 General Marriott Library forms 6 5 The Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Organizational Analytical Model 6 6 "People to Contact" 6 7 Don Gale Marriott Library deeds 6 8 Idea sharing Broadcasting industry information 7 1 Quarterly Report of Broadcasting Activity 1973 7 2 Television trends 1977 7 3 Broadcasting industry data 1980 7 4 The Wireless Register Directory 1985 7 5-6 Veronis, Suhler, and Associates Communications Industry Report 1986-1990 7 7 Communications Industry Forecast 1989 7 8 Telephone industry materials 1992-1993 7 9 "Station Sales Encore in '94" 1995 Utah Broadcasting Association Hall of Fame 8 1 Utah Broadcasters Association 1979-1994 8 2 General materials 1984-2010 8 3 Utah Broadcasters Association 1986-1995 8 4 Programs 1986-2006 8 5 Award committee 1987 8 6 General materials 2001 8 7-9 Induction materials 2002-2012 Broadcasting in Utah 9 1 William Marconi 1892-1992 9 2 Chamber of Commerce materials 1989-1940 9 3 Salt Lake Herald-Tribune articles 4 Salt Lake Tribune 9 3 Fort Douglas radio station 1912-1937 9 4 Salt Lake Moving Picture Machine Operators Commemorative Journal 1912-1962 9 5-7 Radio Service Bulletins 1912-1946 9 8 Radio Corporation formation 1919 9 9 War on jazz music 1919 10 1 Deseret News telegraph 1920 10 2 QST Magazine 1920 10 3 Associated radio uses 1920-1922 10 4 Government use of radio 1920-1986 10 5 Fairgrounds radio station 1921 10 6 Radio concert 1922 10 7 "Radio Danger" 1922 10 8 Pantages Theatre 1922 10 9 J.C. Painter 1922 10 10 Fort Douglas radio station 1922-1926 10 11 Radio Service Bulletins 1923-1925 10 12 Radio Service Corporation of Utah 1924-1941 10 13 Radio interference 1925-1931 10 14 Radio Service Bulletins 1925-1932 10 15 General communications articles and studies 1929-1973 11 1 General communications articles and studies 1930-1974 11 2 National income statistics 1929-1961 11 3 General communications articles and studies 1933-1983 11 4 Utah station records 1938-1983 11 5 Report on Chain Broadcasting 1941 11 6 An Economic Study of Standard Broadcasting 1947 11 7 Utah station records 1948-1979 12 1 General communications articles and studies 1949-1976 12 2 General communications theses and essays 1949-1983 12 3 Radio stations in Utah 1954-1993 12 4 Keith Engar 1956-1990 12 5 Federal Communications Commission Fortieth Anniversary 1963-1974 12 6 50KW radio financial reports 1964-1972 12 7 General communications theses and essays 1969-1977 12 8 Federal Communications Commission rules 1971 12 9 Association for Professional Broadcasting Education Broadcast Management Seminar 1971 13 1 General communications theses and essays 1971-1974 13 2 Broadband communications report 1972 13 3 A Profile of the Development of Community Antenna Television in the State of Utah 1973 13 4 Salt Lake City Station rate cards 1973-1974 13 5 General Salt Lake City radio materials 1974-1998 14 1 Utah Needs: A General Population Survey 1975 14 2 Utah Holiday 1975 14 3-5 Satellite materials 1976-1980 14 6 "101 Years of Television Technology" 1976-1994 14 7 KUED Television Signal Reception Study 1978 14 8 Master Planning for Postsecondary Education in Utah 1978 15 1 Utah Looks at Cable Television 1981 15 2 New York City Museum of Broadcasting 1986-1989 15 3 Western Vintage Radio Club 1988-1989 15 4 "James is Retiring" 1989 15 5 Utah Advertising Federation rosters 1989-1994 15 6 General advertising materials 1989-2002 15 7 General materials 1990 15 8 "Radio Days: KUSA WDAE Celebrate 70 Years" 1992 15 9 Wasatch Front Value and Lifestyle groups 1994-1995 15 10 Utah Broadcasting Collection publicity releases 1981-1989 15 11 Salt Lake radio history 1982-1995 15 12 Documenting Utah broadcasting history 1983-2000 15 13 Women in Utah broadcasting 1986 15 14 Utah broadcasting development 1988 16 1 National Public Radio research 1989 16 2 Salt Lake City radio stations 1989 16 3 Citadel Broadcasting 1996 16 4 Hare Krishna radio 1996 16 5 Regent Broadcasting 1996-1997 16 6 Utah Advertising Federation rosters 1997 16 7 Channel 4 Fiftieth Anniversary 1998 16 8 Directory of broadcasting in Utah 2001 16 9 Utah FM engineering 16 10 Cable communications questionnaire for cities and towns in Utah 16 11 Mormon Tabernacle Choir 16 12 Phase I recommendations on the future of public television in Utah 16 13 Cable diary History of broadcasting 17 1 Electrical World articles 1905-1924 17 2 Radio history news 1912-1971 17 3-4 Important events in radiotelegraphy 1915-1916 17 5 Commercial Club 1919 17 6 National radio news clippings 1919-1922 17 7 General radio articles 1919-1934 17 8 Broadcast history news clippings 1919-1947 17 9-10 General radio news 1919-1986 17 11 Department of Commerce 1920-1924 17 12 Herbert Hoover Presidential Library 1921-1981 17 13 KDL news 1922-1945 18 1-2 General materials 1922-1999 18 3 Amateur materials 1922-1980 18 4 Radio advertisements 1924 18 5 KMBC history materials 1926-1981 18 6 Radio history general materials 1926-1982 18 7 Electronics Magazine 1930-1934 18 8 Federal Radio Commission history and organization 1932 19 1 Inventors file 1935-1984 19 2 United States television stations 1947-1949 19 3 Information on editorializing 1967-1969 19 4 General materials 1969-1978 19 5 General cable materials 1970-1973 19 6 General cable news and stories 1971-1994 19 7 General broadcast history 1972-1978 19 8 Broadcast Editorializing 1972 19 9 Codes of ethics and production standards 1973-1978 20 1 Trempeleau Electric Cooperative 1974 20 2 "Chevy gets radio Clios" 1975 20 3 Communications and Rural America 1977 20 4 General materials 1977-1990 20 5 House of Representatives Bill 13015 1978 20 6 "The First 50 Years of Broadcasting: 1931-1951" 1980-1981 20 7 "The First 50 Years of Broadcasting: 1952-1981" 1981 20 8 Emanuel A. Floor 1984-1985 20 9 Attitudes and Opinions 1985 20 10 History of Consumer Electronics 1984 21 1 Columbia Broadcasting System sixtieth anniversary 1987 21 2 Television Information Office thirtieth anniversary study 1989 21 3 The History of Broadcasting in Maine: The First Fifty Years 1990 21 4 "Triad Center: The Gathering Place" 21 5 Satellite Technology Demonstration Federation of Rocky Mountain States, Incorporated 21 6 General materials 21 7 KMBC historical materials 21 8 Spark Sets and Galena Crystals: The History of General Electric Radio 21 9 Radio's 100 Men of Science History of cable 22 1 National Archives materials 1922-1990 22 2 General cable reports and information 1938-1983 22 3 Cable regulations 1958-1994 22 4-5 National Archives materials 1961-1995 22 6 Cable Third Report and Order 1972 22 7 Cable regulations 1972-1994 23 1 General materials 1972-1979 23 2 Cable regulations 1975-1992 23 3 Cable television: Strategy for Penetrating Key Urban Markets 1976 23 4 Cable regulations 1980-1990 Bonneville International Corporation 24 1 KSL newsletters 1962-1978 24 2 History of Bonneville International Corporation 1964-1980 24 3 History of Bonneville International Corporation 1964-1980 24 4 Bonneville International Corporation history general materials 1966-1989 24 5 Arch Madsen speeches and news clippings 1967-1995 24 6 A Radio Feasibility Research Study on La Paz, Bolivia for Bonneville International Corporation 1968 25 1 KSL Incorporated executive committee minutes 1968-1976 25 2 Rogers, The History of the Clear Channel and Super Power Controversy in the Management of the Standard Broadcast Allocation Plan 1972 25 3 Historical Archive Collection 1973-1991 25 4 Bonneville International Corporation history general materials 1974-1981 25 5 Financial information 26 1 Executive Committee 1977-1978 26 2 Board of Directors 1977-1978 26 3 Golden Empire braodcasting contract 1978 26 4 Satellite Communications for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 1979 26 5 Bon Bon 1980-1981 26 6 Hawaii Seminar 1981-1982 26 7 News Director's Meeting 1981 26 8 Snowbird Conference expenses 1982 26 9 Snowbird Conference materials 1982 26 10 Park City Seminar expenses 1982 26 11 Park City Seminar 1982 26 12 Seattle Conference on Media and the Law 1982 26 13 Seminar correspondence 1982-1987 26 14 News and Public Affairs 1983 26 15 Manager's Conference 1983 26 16 Seminar evaluations 1983-1984 27 1 Triad Center progress reports 1983-1984 27 2 News Director's Seminar 1983-1986 27 3 Fred Friendly Seminar 1984 27 4 Expenses 1984 27 5 Don Gale correspondence and other materials 1985-1987 27 6 National Press Foundation certificate of appreciation 1988 27 7 Bonneville Holding Company annual meeting 1988 27 8 Bonneville International Corporation Twenty-fifth Anniversary 1989 27 9 General materials 1989-2007 27 10 Martin Luther King, Junior holiday 1990 27 11 Values Reports 1991-1996 27 12 Oral history series 1992 27 13 Values reports 1998-2001 27 14 General information 27 15 Cedar City expenses 27 16 Employee information KSL 28 1 Original application 1920-1964 28 2 Newspaper articles 1922-1988 28 3 Salt Lake City inspection records 1930-1931 28 4 Ground Wave Transmission Study 1937 28 5 Standard Optical shows 1947 28 6 KSL history general materials 1955-1989 29 1 General materials 1955-2002 29 2 George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award 1962 29 3 Fortieth Anniversary 1962 29 4 General materials 1962-2007 29 5 Editorial information 1963-1989 29 6 Award entry for RTNDA Television News Awards 1967-1969 29 7 Newsletters 1967-1971 29 8 KSL Board of Directors meeting minutes 1968-1976 29 9 Financial materials 1968-1978 29 10 Public affairs 1968-1984 30 1 Wolsey, "The History of Radio Station KSL from 1922 to Television" 1967 30 2 Teletext 1968-1989 30 3 Financial information 1971-1976 30 4 Channel Five renewal 1971-1982 30 5 Owen Rich survey 1972 31 1 News poster 1973 31 2 Posters 1973-1977 31 3 KSL history materials 1974-1984 31 4 What's Right with America? 1976 31 5 Teledata Experimental Authorization 1978 31 6 David Lennox Murdoch 1978 31 7 Editorials 1978-1997 31 8 Educational programming 1982-1985 31 9 Frank N. Magid Associates 1985 31 10 Dan Rather 1986 31 11 Eyewitness News memorandum 1989 31 12 "TV Marti" 1990 31 13 McIntyre Radio Collection 1989-1991 31 14 Internet staff 1996 31 15 News team poster 31 16 Religious broadcasting 31 17 Ralph Handy 31 18 "The is KSL" KUER 32 1 Arbitron reports 1981-1989 32 2 General materials 1985-1992 32 3 KUER focus groups 1990 32 4 KUER Listenership Survery Report 1994 32 5 NPR and KUER 1996-2001 32 6 KUER Administrative Review Committee 2000 32 7 General data 2000 32 8 Adminstrative Review Committee 2000 33 1 Research 2000 33 2 Adminstrative Review Committee 2000 33 3 KUER review 2000 33 4 General news 2001 33 5 Listener survey KUTV 34 1 Purchase agreement 1948-1967 34 2 KUTV news 1989 34 3 KUTV tour 34 4 Tanya Vea 2008 34 5-7 George Hatch 1945-2005 34 8 "A Pioneer in Communications" 1972-1996 34 9-10 General materials 1996-1997 Educational programming in Utah 35 1 KUED studies 1975-1990 35 2 General educational programming 1985-1989 35 3 The History of KUED and the Development of SETOC 1987 35 4 Policy Considerations for School Involvement in Electronic Technology and Communications 1994 35 5 KUED, The Big Picture 1994 35 6 KUED Viewer Survey reports 1995 35 7 Utah Education Network information packet 1996 35 8 The Utah Education Network: Bring Technology to Education 1996 35 9 Educational Telecommunications: The State-by-State Analysis 1996-1997 36 1 KUED research 1997 36 2 Utah Education Network, "Current Developments in Telecommunications" 1999 36 3 UtahLink 36 4 General Utah Education Network materials 37-38 History of KUTE 1912-2010 KALL and KLCY 39 1 Channel Two KUTV 1953-1986 39 2 Radio personalities 1963-1985 39 3 General materials 1976 39 4 Robert Hinckley 1988-1992 39 5 Ratings 1989 39 6 Management documents, contracts, and bills 1989-1991 39 7 KALL questionnaire 1990 39 8 Leonard Hawes evaluation propsal 1990 39 9 KLCY case study 1990 40 1 KALL case study 1990 40 2 Hour clocks 1990 40 3 KALL client list 1990-1991 40 4 Survey results 1991 40 5 KALL sale 1993 40 6 KALL and KLCY objectives 40 7 Hatch Station KDYL 41 1-2 Sidney Fox materials 1920-1997 41 3 KDYL pictures 41 4 General materials 1934-1936 KPCW 42 1 General Channel 45 information 1985-1987 42 2 Channel 45 survey 1988 42 3 Election survey 1989-1992 42 4 General materials 1989-1993 42 5 Survey of listeners 1992 42 6 General materials 1992-1994 General station materials 43 1 KFUT 1926-1927 43 2 Vietnam: A Television History 1982-1983 43 3 ESPN 1983 43 4 KTKK Radio Consultant 1988 43 5 Clark, KLUB/KISN Effective Z Management Style 1988 43 6 KLVV 99.5 FM case study 1990 43 7 Rose, KFOO: Education's First Station 1990 43 8 KCPX purchase agreement 1990-1994 43 9 The Breeze 97.9 44 KBIG and KIRO editorials 1964-1972 Federal Communications Commission 45 1 John Brinkley 1923-1933 45 2 National Archives materials 1929-1981 45 3 Utah Broadcasting Company co-partnership application 1935 45 4 Constructoin permit docket sheets and report 1936 45 5 General Federal Communications Commission cases 1936-1977 45 6 Application for construction permit 1945 45 7 General Federal Communications Commission hearings 1953 45 8 License renewal materials 1969 46 1 Federal Communications Commission report for KLO 1938 46 2 Annual reports 1973-1974 46 3 Forty-first annual report 1975 46 4 General materials 1978 46 5 Analysis of Communications Act of 1978 1978 46 6 Network inquiry special staff 1979 46 7 Federal Communications Commission Library periodicals 1990 46 8 National Archives materials 1990-1999 46 9 Commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission 1994 46 10 Glossary of terms 46 11 KALL license renewal materials 46 12 Clear Channel broadcasting applications Park City research 47 1 General correspondence 1993 47 2 Guest history 1993 47 3 Overnight materials 1993 47 4 Receipts 1993 47 5 Surveys 1984-1993 47 6 On the Street 1993 47 7 Housing survey 1994 47 8 KCPW 1994 Philo Farnsworth materials 48 1-2 Elma Farnsworth memoir 1989 48 3-4 Classification of patents of Philo Farnsworth 1931-1942 48 5 Philo Farnsworth statue 1988-1990 Hancock v. Keystone Communications 49 1 General Keystone Communications materials 1993 49 2 Television schedules 2004 49 3-7 Combined Reply Memorandum 2006 50 1-3 Memorandum in Opposition to Defendant's Motion 2006 50 4 Deposition of David Cannon Pollei 2006 50 5-7 Defendant's Motion for Partial Summary Judgement as to the Existence of Keystone's Trade Secret 2007 51 1 Reply Memorandum in Support of Plaintiff's Cross-Motion for Partial Summary Judgement 2007 51 2 F. Richard Call affidavit 2007 51 3 Expert Witness Report of Keefe Pulley Pursuant 2007 51 4 Disclosures of Expert Witness David Cannon Pollei 2007 51 5 Expert Report of Dale Darling 2007 51 6 Expert Witness agreement and expenses 2007 51 7 Plaintiff's Designation of Potential Witnesses, Testifying Experts, and Proposed Exhibits 2007 Communications in Wisconsin 52 1-2 Wisconsin Report of Telecommunications 1962-1973 52 3-5 Communications in Wisconsin 1972-1989 General articles and publications 53 AdNews 1989-2012 54 1 Amateur's war records 1909-1924 54 2 Women in early commercial radio 1917-1989 54 3 Explorations in Entrepreneurial History 1949-1951 54 4 John Gallivan 1960-1993 54 5 The Effects of Common Ownership on Media Content and Influence 1969 54 6 Mass Communications in the United States 1970 54 7 Mormons in the media 1977-1979 54 8 H. L. Chadbourne 1982-1983 54 9 General journalism materials 1982-1984 54 10 International Business Machines Corporation Systems Journal 1983 54 11 Histiography articles 1986-1992 54 12 Telescene case study 1988 55 1 Video West: A Management Analysis 1988 55 2 Thomas McCarthey obituary 1989 55 3 Broadcasting in Central and South America 1995-1996 55 4 Abe Glassman 55 5 Hale, "TV Game" 55 6 Lichty and Gomery, More is Less 55 7 Notes on Utah newspapers 55 8 Invention and Innovation in the Radio Industry General materials 56 1 Churchill Capital, Incorporated 1996 56 2 Search engine optimization 56 3 "Tribune Earns Five First-Place Journalism Awards" 56 4 "Junior Poster Supplement" 56 5 Guest book 56 6 "Story Telling Time" scrapbook 57 1 Edward, Broadcast Operations at Utah State University 1972 57 2 General Lutheran Church materials 1987-1999 57 3 Hilton, The History of LDS Business College and its Parent Institutions 1995 57 4 Katherine and Frank Carman 1989 58-61 Radio format analysis papers 1977-2005 62 Solitude Mountain Resort surveys 2000 63 General student work 1996-2010 64 Newspapers and newsclippings 1850-2005 65 John Fitzgerald Kennedy memorial scrapbook 1963-1968 66 General oversized materials 1965-1977

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