Broadcaster David Gleason will be honored with the inaugural Library of American Broadcasting Foundation’s (LABF) Excellence in Broadcast Preservation Award in recognition of his outstanding dedication and commitment to preserving broadcast history.
The presentation will take place at NAB Show New York on Thursday, October 26th immediately following the panel session entitled “Your Content is King: Preserve It!” on which Gleason will appear.
Working on his own time and with his money for the past 20 years, Gleason has built a massive online archive of broadcasting and cable trade publications, books, music magazines, technical manuals, directories, yearbooks, company and station publications, programming guides and more. The archive — www.worldradiohistory.com — now tops nine million pages. Because it is online, the pages are readily available to the public – and searchable.
“There is no stopping him,” said LABF Co-chairs Heidi Raphael and Jack Goodman. “What David has accompli
