University Of Georgia Works To Preserve Local Radio Broadcasts, Make Them More Accessible

The University of Georgia continues efforts to preserve and transcribe a collection of local radio broadcasts from the 20th century.

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The University of Georgia Libraries is continuing efforts to archive thousands of hours of local public radio news broadcasts from the last century.

It’s a labor-intensive process that sometimes only humans can do.

The broadcasts were submitted for the Peabody Awards, the prestigious honor that’s based at UGA. The tapes range from the 1940s to the 1990s.