Guide to the Alan Fischler papers (ARA) PA Mss 208

Original collection processing and arrangement by Thousand Oaks Public Library Staff. Electronic finding and additional processing and description by Jacob Robin, 2023. Latest revision 2023 May 24.

UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara 93106-9010

Phone Number: (805) 893-3062

special@library.ucsb.edu

URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections

2023 May 24

Title: Alan Fischler papers (ARA)

Identifier/Call Number: PA Mss 208

Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections

Physical Description: 3 Linear Feet (4 boxes: 2 cartons, 2 document boxes)

Date (inclusive): approximately 1958-1985

Abstract: The Alan Fischler collection chronicles Alan Fischler's career as a broadcaster and professor.

Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.

Scope and Content

The Alan Fischler collection consists of 2 cartons and 2 document boxes, or 3 linear feet, ranging from 1958-1985 and chronicles Alan Fischler's career as a broadcaster and professor. It contains personal papers (including one scrapbook), clippings and booklets related to the field of broadcasting. KNJO now known as KYRA.

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Arrangement

The materials in this collection are arranged into three series by type. Series 1: Personal Papers; Series 2: Clippings; Series 3: Booklets.

Biographical Note

Alan Fischler was born on May 3, 1916 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He started a long career in broadcasting in 1939 while working in public relations for the federal government in Washington D.C. The emphasis on his work was on press information and radio script writing. Fischler married Pearl Fischler in 1942 and in 1945 left Washington and moved to Los Angeles. He took a position as a reporter-reviewer for Billboard magazine in Hollywood, California and in 1950 moved to the National Broadcasting Company (KNBC) in Hollywood where he coordinated daytime programming. In 1951 Fischler left KNBC to work for Snader Telescription Sales, a film syndication company which produced and sold "made for television" movies. From 1952 to 1961 Fischler worked for KCOP-TV as an account executive and local sales manager. From 1961 to 1963 he worked as director of the National Telefilm Associates' (NTA) award program division as head of national film syndication. In 1963 he moved to KBIG-AM/FM, where he worked as vice president and general manager until 1969. In 1970 Fischler started his tenure as president and general manager of KNJO-FM in Thousand Oaks, California. He was coowner and chief operating officer, giving him control of the day-to-day operation of the station.

Alan Fischler sold KNJO in 1980 for $650,000.00. After selling the station, Fischler focused on a career as a professor, teaching broadcasting to students at a number of local universities, including California Lutheran College, Pepperdine University and California State University, Northridge.

Fischler was a member of the Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club of Thousand Oaks, the Southern California Broadcasters Association and the Conejo Valley Trade Club. He died in 1985.

Acquisition Information

This collection forms part of the American Radio Archives (ARA), which documents the early history of broadcasting, with an emphasis on California. The ARA was formerly housed at the Thousand Oaks Public Library and was owned and administered by the Thousand Oaks Library Foundation. It was transferred to the UCSB Library in 2021.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of Item], Alan Fischler papers, PA Mss 208. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Related Archival Material

Forms part of the American Radio Archives (ARA).

Use Restrictions

Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.

All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assigns for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Personal Papers

box 1, folder 1

Scrapbook 1958

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, newspapers and photographs.

box 1, folder 2

KNJO 1970-1984

Scope and Contents

Includes ephemera, correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports

box 1, folder 3

Script-Atmospherics undated

Scope and Contents

Covers the history of the Conejo Valley in Southern California.

box 1, folder 4

Law offices of Wilner and Scheiner, Memorandums 1981-1984

box 1, folder 5

Assistant Professor at California State University, Northridge, Notes and correspondence 1967-1982

Loose Materials

box 1, folder 6

Arbitron Ratings and Diaries, Pamphlets 1980-1985

box 1, folder 7

Current Ratings for Los Angeles Radio Stations 1984 March 20

box 1, folder 8

Radio Advertising and Research 1971-1981

box 1, folder 9

Radio Research 1972-1984

box 1, folder 10

Radio Advertising Bureau, Radio Selling Ideas, pamphlets 1977-1980

box 1, folder 11

Radio Advertising Bureau vs. other media 1974-1980

box 1, folder 12

Radio Advertising Bureau, Retailers booklets 1973-1979

box 1, folder 13

Religious programming 1981-1984

box 1, folder 14

Articles by Allen Klein in "Inside Radio" 1984-1985

box 1, folder 15

AM radio articles 1982-1985

box 1, folder 16

FM radio articles 1983-1984

box 1, folder 17

Cellular radio articles 1982-1984

box 1, folder 18

Radio Fact booklets 1979-1980

box 1, folder 19

Nielsen Media Research, Part 1 1974-1985

box 1, folder 20

Nielsen Media Research, Part 2 1979-1985

box 1, folder 21

Television Annual reports 1980-1985

box 1, folder 22

Television Programming, newspaper clippings 1981-1984

box 1, folder 23

Television Religious programming 1980-1985

box 1, folder 24

Television Children's programming 1984

box 1, folder 25

Television Sports programming 1982-1984

box 1, folder 26

Television Advertising, Newspaper clippings 1972-1984

box 1, folder 27

Television Sex, violence and morality, Newspaper clippings, articles 1981-1984

box 1, folder 28

Television Sex, violence and morality-Moral majority vs. Norman Lear, Newspaper clippings 1981-1982

box 1, folder 29

Television Sex, violence and morality-National Coalition on Television Violence, Newspaper Clippings 1981-1983

box 1, folder 30

Television Sex, violence and morality-The Coalition for Better Television, Newspaper Clippings 1981-1984

box 1, folder 31

Television Journalism, Newspaper Clippings, Magazine Articles 1980-1985

box 1, folder 32

Television Narrowcasting effects, Newspaper Clippings 1984

box 1, folder 33

Television Network relations and station compensation 1983

box 1, folder 34

Television Westmoreland vs. CBS 1985

box 1, folder 35

Television Technology, Newspaper Clippings, Magazine Articles, Booklets 1981-1985

box 1, folder 36

Television STV, Magazine Articles 1982-1984

box 1, folder 37

Television Satellite, Magazine Articles 1981-1984

box 1, folder 38

Television Teleconferencing, Magazine Articles 1982-1984

box 1, folder 39

Television, Cable, Radio and newspaper tie-ups, magazine articles 1982-1985

box 3, folder 1

Shakeout in Cable TV Systems, Newspaper Clippings 1978-1983

box 3, folder 2

Cable Television Franchising, Newspaper Clippings, Magazine Articles 1981-1985

box 3, folder 3

Cable Television Deregulation, Magazine Articles 1983-1985

box 3, folder 4

Cable Television City regulations, Newspaper Clippings, Magazine Articles 1983-1985

box 3, folder 5

Cable Television Networks, Newspaper Clippings, Magazine Articles, Course Syllabus 1981-1985

box 3, folder 6

Broadcasting Ratings Analysis 1971-1984

box 3, folder 7

Broadcasting Salaries, Newspaper Clippings, Magazine Articles 1980-1985

box 3, folder 8

Broadcast Financial Management Association, Booklets, Memorandum 1979

box 3, folder 9

Broadcasting Advertising, Magazine Articles 1981-1985

box 3, folder 10

Channels: Field guides to electronic media, Magazines 1983-1985

box 3, folder 11

"Where Things Stand: A Quarterly Status Report on the Unfinished Business of Electronic Communications", Magazine Articles 1982-1985

box 3, folder 12

Broadcasting Syndication, Magazine Articles 1982-1984

box 3, folder 13

Reporter's shield laws, Research 1982-1984

box 3, folder 14

Federal Communications Commission (U.S.), Booklet, Correspondence, Memorandum, Newspaper Clippings, Magazine Articles 1974-1985

Booklets

box 2, folder 1

Understanding and Using Radio Audience Estimates 1976

box 2, folder 2

Inside The New Television Market Report 1980

box 2, folder 3

Description of Methodology 1980 October

box 2, folder 4

Arbitron Radio, Los Angeles, Report 1980

box 2, folder 5

Arbitron Radio: Audience Estimates in the Arbitron Market of Flint 1980

box 2, folder 6

Arbitron Radio: Audience Estimates in the Arbitron Market of Reno 1980

box 2, folder 7

Arbitron…Taking the Mystery Out of the Broadcast Ratings Jungle 1970s-1980s

box 2, folder 8

Arbitron Radio: Audience Estimates in the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, ADI and TSA for San Diego 1981

box 2, folder 9

Arbitron Radio: Audience Estimates in the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, ADI and TSA for Washington, D.C. 1981

box 2, folder 10

Description of Methodology: Arbitron Radio Market Reports 1982

box 2, folder 11

Description of Methodology: Arbitron Television Market Reports 1982 October

box 2, folder 12

Arbitron Radio: Audience Estimates in the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, ADI and TSA for Corpus Christi 1982

box 2, folder 13

Arbitron Radio: Audience Estimates in the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, ADI and TSA for Houston-Galveston 1982

box 2, folder 14

Arbitron Radio: Audience Estimates in the Arbitron Defined Metropolitan Area, ADI and TSA for Providence-Warwick-Pawtucket 1982

box 2, folder 15

Arbitron Radio: Audience Estimates in the Arbitron Defined Metropolitan Area, ADI and TSA for Greenville-New Bern-Washington 1982

box 2, folder 16

Arbitron Ratings Television: Audience estimates in the Arbitron Ratings market of Lubbock 1982 July

box 2, folder 17

Arbitron Ratings Television: Audience estimates in the Arbitron Ratings market of Medford 1982 July

box 2, folder 18

Arbitron Ratings Television: Audience estimates in the Arbitron Ratings market of Odessa-Midland 1982 July

box 2, folder 19

Arbitron Ratings Television: Audience estimates in the Arbitron Ratings market of Detroit 1982 November

box 2, folder 20

Arbitron Ratings Television: Audience estimates in the Arbitron Ratings market of Kansas City 1983 February

box 2, folder 21

Arbitron Ratings Television: Audience estimates in the Arbitron Ratings market of Lafayette, LA 1983 February

box 2, folder 22

Arbitron Ratings Television: Audience estimates in the Arbitron Ratings market of Casper-Riverton 1983 May

box 2, folder 23

Arbitron Ratings Television: Audience estimates in the Arbitron Ratings market of Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill 1983 May

box 2, folder 24

Arbitron Ratings Television: Audience estimates in the Arbitron Ratings market of Albany, GA 1983 May

box 2, folder 25

Arbitron Ratings Television: Audience estimates in the Arbitron Ratings market of Ardmore-Ada 1983 July

box 2, folder 26

Arbitron Ratings Television: Meter and Diary Measurement, Audience estimates in the Arbitron Ratings market of New York 1983 July

box 2, folder 27

Arbitron Ratings Television: Audience estimates in the Arbitron Ratings market of St. Louis 1983 July

box 2, folder 28

Arbitron Ratings Television: 1983-84 Universe Estimates Summary 1983

box 2, folder 29

Arbitron Ratings Television: 1984-85 Universe Estimates Summary 1984

box 2, folder 30

Nielsen: Viewers in Profile, Albuquerque, NM 1980 May

box 2, folder 31

Everything you've always wanted to know about about TV Ratings, A.C. Nielsen Company, pamphlet 1978

box 2, folder 32

Inside the 1980-81' Season: A Demonstration Report on the new NSI Features for the best in TV-Buying, Selling, Programming 1980

box 2, folder 33

Nielsen TV Viewing Diary 1981 July 09

box 2, folder 34

Nielsen TV Viewing Diary 1981 October 08

box 2, folder 35

RAB Instant Background 1979

box 2, folder 36

RAB Instant Background 2 1979

box 2, folder 37

ARMS II: All-Radio Marketing Study: How to Use it to Improve Media Strategy 1974

box 2, folder 38

ARMS II: All-Radio Marketing Study: Technical Description 1974

box 2, folder 39

Radio Station and Market Selection Practices of Major Advertisers and Advertising Agencies 1979 February

box 2, folder 40

RAB Instant Background 1970s

box 4, folder 1

Audience Estimates in the Los Angeles ARB Radio Market 1972

box 4, folder 2

RAB Sales Kit 1978

box 4, folder 3

Inside Radio: Ratings Report and Directory 1980 March

box 4, folder 4

Broadcasting and Government: A Review of 1979 and a Preview of 1980 1980 January

box 4, folder 5

Broadcasting and Government: A Status Report 1982 July 07

box 4, folder 6

Competitive Edge: Art Rate Card 1978

box 4, folder 7

A Quarterly Marketing Analysis of the Southern California and Los Angeles Markets, prepared by Armand La Pointe 1975-07-01

box 4, folder 8

Small Business Reporter: Advertising Small Business 1976

box 4, folder 9

Broadcasting: The 50th Anniversary Issue 1981

box 4, folder 10

Broadcasting and Cablecasting: Yearbook 1984 1984