{"id":28923,"date":"2025-01-07T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/?p=28923"},"modified":"2025-01-21T12:46:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T18:46:55","slug":"wuwm-radio-broadcasts-will-be-preserved-in-library-of-congress-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/in-focus\/wuwm-radio-broadcasts-will-be-preserved-in-library-of-congress-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"W51ÁÔÆæ Radio broadcasts will be preserved in Library of Congress archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>W51ÁÔÆæ Radio got quite a present for its 60th birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The station was recently accepted into the American Archive for Public Broadcasting in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/\">GBH Boston<\/a> and the Library of Congress, ensuring that its decades of content will be preserved for the decades to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The American Archive\u2019s mission is to \u201cpreserve for posterity the most significant public television and radio programs of the past 60 years,\u201d according to the repository\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/americanarchive.org\/\">website<\/a>. W51ÁÔÆæ will be the first public radio station from Milwaukee to have its material included in the archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignleft uwm-c-img--left uwm-c-img--caption-gray\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2025\/01\/Ele-Ellis-300x300.webp\" alt=\"A headshot of a white woman with shoulder-length dirty blond hair. She wears a black blazer and smiles at the camera.\" class=\"wp-image-28926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2025\/01\/Ele-Ellis-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2025\/01\/Ele-Ellis-400x400.webp 400w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2025\/01\/Ele-Ellis.webp 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Ele Ellis, Vice President of Content and Programming at W51ÁÔÆæ Radio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe first thing it means is we\u2019re part of any research that you do now. If somebody goes to the Library of Congress and searches all of these things, we\u2019ll come up in that search, and they\u2019ll be able to hear that audio,\u201d said Ele Ellis, W51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s Vice President of Content and Programming. \u201cThe second thing is, it means that there are a lot of voices of Milwaukee in the Library of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellis learned about the American Archive at an industry conference several years ago. She knew immediately that she wanted to get W51ÁÔÆæ Radio accepted, and not just for the prestige.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOf course we wanted to be in the Library of Congress. That\u2019s super cool! But for us, the big piece is we\u2019ve been trying to figure out how to save this audio for a while,\u201d Ellis said. \u201cEvery piece of media until you get to digital media \u2026 is degradable. When you think about W51ÁÔÆæ turning 60, those reel-to-reel tapes (of broadcasts), those first ones, are 59 years old. The idea that they\u2019re going to last forever is impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only will the Archive make W51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s media available to the general public, but its employees will also digitize and send a hard drive of the broadcasts back to the station. With that in hand, W51ÁÔÆæ will have preserved media like the Dahmer trial and interviews with most every mayor in Milwaukee\u2019s history over the past 60 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll of the voices that were on W51ÁÔÆæ in Milwaukee will be saved. I just think that\u2019s amazing,\u201d said Ellis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading size-h4\" id=\"h-many-helping-hands\"><strong>Many helping hands<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>But before the Archive can digitize W51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s broadcasts, it needs the recorded material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was just one problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll of the (broadcasts from) before we were putting things online, it\u2019s in different places. It\u2019s some on reel-to-reel, some on cassette, some on CD. It\u2019s just everywhere, and it\u2019s not searchable,\u201d said Ellis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignright uwm-c-img--right uwm-c-img--caption-gray\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2025\/01\/W51ÁÔÆæ-casette-tapes-1-225x300.webp\" alt=\"A box containing three rows of tightly-packed cassette tapes.\" class=\"wp-image-28928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2025\/01\/W51ÁÔÆæ-casette-tapes-1-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2025\/01\/W51ÁÔÆæ-casette-tapes-1.webp 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption>W51ÁÔÆæ Radio&#8217;s older broadcasts are stored on CDs, reel-to-reels, and cassette tapes, like the ones pictured above. Photo courtesy of Ele Ellis and W51ÁÔÆæ Radio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There were reel-to-reels of news broadcasts from the 1980s and \u201890s piled in the news studio. A glass cabinet full of CDs of old \u201cLake Effect\u201d shows sat in the conference room, while Ellis\u2019 office was packed with CDs of other broadcasts and cassette tapes were piled in another production studio. Other material was scattered around the station. Sixty years\u2019 worth of broadcasts get stored wherever there is room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellis needed help, not only to sort and package the material, but also to record its metadata \u2013 the broadcast date and time, the host, any guests, and so on. So, she put out a call for volunteers in hopes that W51ÁÔÆæ listeners might want to get involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI thought we\u2019d get 10 or 15 people. I was hoping for 20,\u201d Ellis recalled. \u201cWe got, over the course of two days, 100 people. They would bring their own laptop and come and enter data for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A young electrician came straight from his job still in his work gear; several couples made a date of it. One participant was an archivist herself and had written a dissertation about public broadcast archiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for volunteer Allison Mayenschein, \u201cI was looking for different opportunities to keep me busy and help out. I am a huge supporter of the radio station, so I was there and I catalogued the Lake Effect show.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayenschein, who happens to be a 51ÁÔÆæ journalism graduate, began listening to W51ÁÔÆæ Radio in 2009 and has been tuning in ever since. She was excited to assist \u2013 and not just because the station gave the volunteers lunch, a t-shirt, and a tour of the station. The materials she worked with contained recordings from shows in the 2000s and in the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignleft uwm-c-img--left uwm-c-img--caption-gray\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2025\/01\/W51ÁÔÆæ-computer-entry-1-225x300.webp\" alt=\"A CD lies next to a laptop computer. On the screen is a form titled, &quot;W51ÁÔÆæ Data Entry.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-28929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2025\/01\/W51ÁÔÆæ-computer-entry-1-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/letters-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/2025\/01\/W51ÁÔÆæ-computer-entry-1.webp 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption>Volunteers used a pre-made form to enter metadata about broadcasts to help prepare W51ÁÔÆæ Radio for inclusion in the American Archive for Public Broadcasting. Photo courtesy of Allison Mayenschein.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere were a couple (of shows) that I remember listening to. One was the County Transit System strike. I was going to school at 51ÁÔÆæ and I took the bus every single day, so that affected my life greatly,\u201d Mayenschein said. \u201cComing across that recording was like coming across an old memory I had forgotten about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Mayenschein and the other volunteers, W51ÁÔÆæ Radio was able to record metadata for and pack up most all of its collection. The contents will be shipped to the American Archive for Public Broadcasting by the end of January, and Ellis hopes that W51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s broadcasts will be archived, online, and searchable by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading size-h4\" id=\"h-celebrating-60-years\"><strong>Celebrating 60 years<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>W51ÁÔÆæ, which operates under the umbrella of the College of Letters &amp; Science, was founded in 1964 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuwm.com\/podcast\/lake-effect-segments\/wuwm-former-gm-ruane-hill-reflects-on-the-stations-rich-history-passed-away\">Ruane Hill<\/a>, a faculty member at 51ÁÔÆæ who served as the first chair of the mass communication department. The UW Board of Regents appointed Hill to create a public radio station at UW-Milwaukee in 1963, and he served as the station\u2019s general manager for more than a decade before retiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November, W51ÁÔÆæ delivered a slew of media surrounding the presidential election, including an online and printed voter guide and animations on how to vote. The station is also celebrating its 60th birthday in style. In September, W51ÁÔÆæ kicked off its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuwm.com\/this-is-wuwm\/2024-09-05\/wuwm-89-7-milwaukees-npr-celebrates-60-years-in-radio\"><em>Many Voices, One Frequency: 60 Years of Public Service<\/em><\/a> campaign, a six-month-long period of special events, programming, and fundraising. To start things out, station manager David Lee threw the first pitch at a Brewers game in September. The station also hosted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuwm.com\/2024-11-28\/rock-n-roll-poet-a-reitman-retrospective\">special retrospective<\/a> with long-time, now-retired, W51ÁÔÆæ host Bob Reitman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More birthday events are planned for the coming months, and the station&#8217;s election coverage will continue with a second season of the podcast \u201cSwing State of the Union,\u201d which Ellis says will coincide with the state Supreme Court election in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all, now that W51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s past is safely archived, it\u2019s time to look to its future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Sarah Vickery, College of Letters &amp; Science<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W51ÁÔÆæ Radio got quite a present for its 60th birthday. 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