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KEZI Sports Videotapes, 1980-2013

Overview of the Collection

Creator
KEZI (Television station : Eugene, Or.)
Title
KEZI Sports Videotapes
Dates
1980-2013 (inclusive)
1984-2010 (bulk)
Quantity
11.50 cubic feet, including 377 videotapes and 2 DVDs, (12 boxes)
Collection Number
FV 329
Summary
The KEZI Sports Videotapes consist of recordings of Oregon State University sports events with a primary emphasis on football, men's basketball and, to a lesser extent, women's basketball. The collection also includes recordings related to OSU baseball, softball, gymnastics, swimming, and Spring football practice, as well as two tapes focusing on the city of Corvallis and a third that highlights the OSU Athletic Department's "Everyday Champions" program. In addition to raw footage of individual games, the collection holds compilations of OSU sports-related television packages that were typically broadcast as part of KEZI's evening news broadcasts. Amongst many other games, the collection features footage of every Civil War football game contested from 1998 to 2009, and also includes film transfers of Oregon State's three Rose Bowl appearances in 1942, 1957 and 1965.
Repository
Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research. However, with the exception of the two DVDs held in box 12, none of the content described in this collection is available for immediate viewing in the SCARC reading room.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

KEZI TV Inc. is an ABC television affiliate based in Eugene, Oregon that has been broadcasting since December 1960. Initially formed by a group of local investors including Carolyn S. Chambers, the company was owned for many years by Chambers Communications. In 2014, the station was sold to Heartland Media. Since 1998, KEZI has broadcast from the Chambers Media Center, one of the largest television production facilities on the West Coast. Throughout its history, coverage of University of Oregon athletics has been a mainstay of the station's local programming, with OSU athletics included as a secondary point of emphasis.

Intercollegiate athletics at Oregon State can trace their beginnings to the 1890s, with the first school football team being fielded in 1893 and the debut of men's basketball coming about in 1901. The Aggies/Beavers were members of the Northwest Intercollegiate Association from 1902-1914, and competed in the Pacific Coast Conference from 1915 to its disbanding in 1959. From 1959 to 1964, Oregon State had no conference affiliation. In 1964 OSU joined the Pacific-8 Conference which expanded to the Pacific-10 in 1978 and, in 2011, to the Pacific-12. Today, OSU fields seven varsity men's sports and ten varsity women's sports.

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Content Description

The KEZI Sports Videotapes are a rich source of information that document OSU's athletic teams and performance during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. The collection consists of 377 videotapes - representing nine different tape formats - as well as two DVDs. The tape formats held in the collection are as follows: large format - Umatic, Betacam SP 30 (large format), Betacam SP 60, Betacam SP 90; medium format - Betacam SP 20, Betacam SP 30 (medium format), Betcam SX 62; small format - DVCam 124, DVCam 184.

The collection materials have been physically arranged by size in order to maximize space efficiency. Each item has received a unique identifier and all materials have been intellectually aggregated into three series, each of which represents a sport or collection of sports. These three series are: 1. Football; 2. Men's and Women's Basketball; and 3. Baseball, Softball, Gymnastics and Other Recordings. Because materials are physically housed according to size, ranges of items within each series are presented in chronological order within spans of boxes, but not in rigorous chronological order across the full run of a series.

Series 1 and Series 2 include footage of entire games as well as compilations of highlight packages that document large swaths of entire seasons. For all single-game recordings described in this finding aid, the home team is listed second. Tapes labeled, for instance, "OSU Football" or "OSU Basketball" consist of collected highlight packages or feature stories that were produced by KEZI for broadcast on its evening news program. Other tapes labeled, for instance, "College Basketball" consist of highlight packages or features with national-level appeal, though each tape will include at least one segment that focuses on OSU sports.

The vast majority of the collection is related to OSU football and is held in Series 1. Highlights of this series include footage of every Civil War (University of Oregon vs. OSU) football game contested from 1998-2009; film transfers of Oregon State's three Rose Bowl appearances (1942, 1957, 1965); and recordings of significant victories during the first decade of the 2000s, including OSU's home upsets of USC in 2006 and 2008. The 2008, 2009 and 2010 seasons are especially well-documented.

Series 2 consists primarily of season-spanning compilations of highlight and feature packages related to the men's and women's basketball teams that OSU fielded from the mid-1990s to the late 2000s. The series also includes game footage of numerous Civil War match-ups as well as content related to the OSU men's team's championship run through the College Basketball Invitational tournament in March-April 2009.

Series 3 contains an amalgam of content with a slight emphasis toward OSU baseball, but also including packages on OSU softball, gymnastics, swimming, and Spring football practice. The series likewise contains two tapes that appear to focus on Corvallis as a city, and a third recording highlighting the OSU Athletic Department's "Everyday Champions" program.

With the exception of the two DVDs held in box 12, none of the content described in this collection is available for immediate viewing in the SCARC reading room.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

KEZI Sports Videotapes (FV 329), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Materials are physically arranged according to size and intellectually aggregated into three series: 1. Football, 1980-2013; 2. Men's and Women's Basketball, 1982-2009; 3. Baseball, Softball, Gymnastics and Other Recordings, 2003-2010.

Acquisition Information

Collection materials were donated to the Special Collections and Archives Research Center by KEZI-TV in 2017.

Processing Note

We acknowledge that materials in SCARC collections and the language that describes them may be harmful. We are actively working to address our descriptive practices; for more information please see our SCARC Anti-Racist Actions Statement online.

The archivist-prepared description of this collection uses the phrase "Civil War" to refer to the long-standing athletic rivalry between Oregon State University and the University of Oregon. A history of this athletic rivalry, and use of the phrase "Civil War" to describe it, is available online in The Origins of the "Civil War" Football Game blog post.

In June 2020, Oregon State University President Edward J. Ray announced that the term "Civil War" will no longer be used by either university because it "represents a connection to a war fought to perpetuate slavery."

We acknowledge the racism represented by the use of this phrase and the harm it may cause our users. In order to provide historical context and to enable standardized searching and access across our collections, we have retained the use of this phrase in the collection description.

[Date of acknowledgement: November 2021]

Related Materials

Footage of OSU's athletic teams over the years is held in three additional moving images collections: the Alumni Association Motion Picture Films and Videotapes (FV 017); the Intercollegiate Athletics Moving Images (FV 031); and the News and Communication Services Motion Picture Films and Videotapes (FV 057). A substantial volume of this material has been digitized and made available online.

The history of OSU Athletics is documented in many other collections as well including the Intercollegiate Athletics Records (RG 007); the Sports Media Guides (PUB 054); and dozens of additional manuscript, photograph and scrapbook collections held by the Special Collections and Archives Research Center.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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Subject Terms

  • Baseball--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • Basketball for women--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • Basketball--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • Football--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • Gymnastics for women--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • Softball for women--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • Swimming for women--Oregon--Corvallis.
  • Television broadcasting.

Corporate Names

  • Oregon State College--Football.
  • Oregon State University--Baseball.
  • Oregon State University--Basketball.
  • Oregon State University--Football.
  • Oregon State University. Athletic Department.
  • Rose Bowl (Football game)

Geographical Names

  • Corvallis (Or.)
  • Eugene (Or.)

Form or Genre Terms

  • DVDs.
  • Video recordings.

Finding Aid Authors: Chris Petersen.
2017

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