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Part 5: Image & Audio Scrapbook
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In the other parts of this series on North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC's history you found images and audio from the past. Here's more from that collection for you to enjoy. It's our scrapbook and we hope you enjoy looking & listening...
Basketball coaches Dean Smith (UNC) and Jim Valvano (NC State) lend a hand to WUNC's fund drive in the early 1980s.
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Joe Greadon, host of the People's Pharmacy, makes his WUNC debut in March 1981. WUNC's print program guide, Listen Magazine, announced the program's arrival. The program continues today and is now hosted by Joe and his wife Terry. It's produced in WUNC"s Durham studios and airs every Saturday morning at 7 a.m. Until the mid 90s, the program aired from 8:30-10:00 a.m.
Left, NPR's Cokie Roberts visits WUNC in 1990 as part of an on-going campaign to raise money for new WUNC studios.
Kevin Wolf (below, left) hosted Morning Edition for WUNC from its start through the mid 1990s.
Also, below, jazz singer Carol Sloane hosted a popular jazz and American song program on Saturday mornings.
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William Wood was professor emeritus of Columbia University and a CBS news media commentator whose "Report on the Press" aired from 1970 until 1991. He lived in Chapel Hill in the late 80s/early 90s and recorded his commentaries at WUNC. These aired on the CBS network and on WUNC Radio. An ultimate professional, Wood would come in to WUNC one or two times a month, read two or three scripts through in one take and always hit his 2 minute and 59 second mark every time. This commentary is from 1991. Read the 1992 New York Times William Wood obituary.
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WUNC Staffer Iris Burgeas assists volunteer Addison Davis during a fund drive
Above, student announcers in WUNC's Swain Hall studios in the 1950s. Look at to top left and you can just barely make out an illumiated on-air sign. We still have that sign (left) and it's one of the few things from the 1950s version of the station that still operates. When you visit our Goodmon Building in Chapel Hill, it welcomes you at the front desk.
Gary Shivers interviews Andy Griffith in 1975 at Griffith's Outer Banks home. The conversation aired in 1976 shortly after the station went on the air.
It was a smokin' fund drive - in many ways - in 1981. Listen '81 had a goal of $75,000. The campaign raised $125,000 between October 1-5, 1981. Asking listeners to give on-air are station manager Gary Shivers, and announcers Eva Eliel and David Bachrack.
In the late 1950s, Poet Carl Sandburg was recorded by WUNC at his home in Flat Rock, North Carolina.
Right, Carl Kassell visits WUNC during a 2000 fund drive to help "pitch" on the radio. In case you missed it, go here to hear Carl and Charles Kuralt as students on the air at WUNC in 1953.
From the early to mid 1990s, NPR's David Molpus was based at NPR's Southeastern News Bureau, hosted at WUNC.
Then UNC Systems President William Friday answers phones during WUNC's 1982 fund drive.
WUNC Sharon Corpening's award winning 1995 feature on "hatness" in African-American communities in North Carolina.
