Arthur Godfrey

===The Arthur Godfrey Collection===
Toward the end of his life, Godfrey became a major supporter of [[public broadcasting]], and left his large personal archive of papers and programs to public station [[WNET|WNET/Thirteen]] in New York. Godfrey biographer Arthur Singer helped to arrange a permanent home for the Godfrey material at the [[Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland]] in early 1998. The collection contains hundreds of [[kinescope]]s of Godfrey television programs, more than 4,000 [[magnetic tape sound recording|audiotapes]] and [[wire recording]]s of his various radio shows, [[videotape]]s, and [[transcription disc]]s. The collection also contains Godfrey's voluminous personal papers and business records, which cover his spectacular rise and precipitous fall in the industry over a period of more than 50 years.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://digital.lib.umd.edu/archivesum/actions.DisplayEADDoc.do?source=/MdU.ead.lab.0035.xml&style=ead| title=Thirteen/WNET Arthur Godfrey Collection| publisher=the Special Collections Department of the University of Maryland Libraries| access-date=January 1, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622221245/http://digital.lib.umd.edu/archivesum/actions.DisplayEADDoc.do?source=%2FMdU.ead.lab.0035.xml&style=ead| archive-date=June 22, 2012| url-status=dead}}</ref>