• Over 2.5 million linear feet of 16mm news film from WKBN TV-27, covering the years 1955-1978.
• More than 500,000 linear feet of news video in 3/4", 1" and Betacam formats covering the years 1978-1989
• More than 21,000 phonograph records from the WKBN radio music library on 33-1/3 RPM; 45 RPM and 78 RPM discs.
• Thousands of photographs and documents from the corporate records of WKBN Broadcasting Corporation.

A variety of transmitters, playback machines, editing machines, microphones, film and video cameras.

News Film Online Index

Film Collection 1955-1978

Tape Collection 1976-1995

The Film & Tape collections are very large files and may take a few minutes to download. 

To search on the Film & Tape Collection web pages:

Under the Edit menu select "Find (on this page)" and enter a search query.  Please contact BMAMV staff at business_media@mahoninghistory.org with any questions.

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