Broadcasting Baltimore Update #9: 1,036 hours completed!
Watch these collection highlights at https://tinyurl.com/BroadcastingBaltimore In 2022, MARMIA received a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) grant to digitize and describe 1,000 hours of footage from our WJZ-TV Collection that documents the voices of underrepresented communities in Baltimore City from 1977-2000.…
Broadcasting Baltimore Update #8: Eyewitness News
As we near the very end of our three-year CLIR-funded grant project, Broadcasting Baltimore: Digitizing Hidden Histories, we would be remiss if we did not do a whole blog post dedicated to Eyewitness News. The first Eyewitness News format began in 1959 at…
Broadcasting Baltimore Update #7: Now & Then
In the WJZ-13 collection, there is a series called “Field Tapes.” This series contains archival footage and camera-original recordings produced and recorded by Norman Vogel for use on a segment called, “Now and Then” which aired on the news. From what we can…
MARMIA Has Moved to Motor House!
MARMIA has grown so much in the last 3 years–we had our first paid staff join us (more than one!) and now thanks to the Mellon Foundation we have the film scanner of our dreams! While we loved our previous office companions at…
Broadcasting Baltimore Update #6: Prime-time People
During the summer of 1976, a San Francisco CBS affiliate station (KPIX) owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W), premiered a local weeknight television news and entertainment series titled Evening: The MTWTF Show, eventually becoming Evening Magazine. The show was designed to add a…
Mellon Foundation NFF Investing in Resilience
We are thrilled to announce that MARMIA has been selected to be a part of the Mellon Foundation NFF three-year initiative, Investing in Resilience. This cohort includes Appalshop, Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), ENTRE Film Center & Regional Archive, Frameline, Media Burn…
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