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Saving broadcasting's past for the future -- archivists are working to capture not just tapes of TV and radio but the experience of tuning in together

  • Written by Michael J. Socolow, Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
Saving broadcasting's past for the future -- archivists are working to capture not just tapes of TV and radio but the experience of tuning in togetherHow will we preserve technologies so deeply embedded in daily life? BrAt_PiKaChU/Istock via Getty Images

We’ve lived with broadcasting for more than a century. Starting with radio in the 1920s, then television in the 1950s, Americans by the millions began purchasing boxes designed to receive electromagnetic signals transmitted from nearby...

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