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Title: KCSB-FM collection
Identifier/Call Number: UArch 131
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
1078 linear feet
(audiotape reels, audiocassettes)
Date (inclusive): 1964-2004
Abstract: Collection contains reels and cassette tapes on a variety of topics discussed on KCSB-FM radio station from 1964 until 2004.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Original reel-to-reel tapes are not accessible to patrons for preservation reasons. If you wish to access this recording,
you must submit a digitization request with Special Research Collections. Digitization requests may take upwards of 2-3 weeks.
[Identification of Item], KCSB-FM collection, UArch 131. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transfer from KCSB Radio Station, 2018.
"The radio station at the University of California, Santa Barbara, KCSB-FM, is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission
to the Regents of the University of California. KCSB is funded primarily by the students at UCSB and the community at large.As
a non-commercial, educational FM station broadcasting for the public interest, KCSB enters into no commercial contracts which
allow access to the airwaves and it strives to provide programming substantially different from that carried by commercial
broadcast media. It is also designed to be educational for both programmers and listeners. UCSB students and other programmers
are provided an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of radio broadcasting."
"About." KCSB FM - KCSB FM, Santa Barbara. Accessed January 22, 2020. https://www.kcsb.org/about/.
KCSB-FM collection contains 1,078 audio reels and 681 audio cassettes recordings on a wide variety of topics, including interviews
with local university students and educational figures, information on political and educational figures, broadcasting of
general political movements occurring locally as well as nationally and internationally. Additionally, there is a wide selection
of music and broadcasting of local and university events.
Materials arranged into two series: Audiotapes, Cassettes
K.C.S.B. Audiotape Collction. SBHC Mss 58. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library. This collection
in addition, contains 102 open reel tapes produced by radio station KCSB, with live coverage of events, other broadcasts,
calls, and interviews.