Figure 1
Correspondence with the IBU office in Geneva, June 1931; note the stamp of incoming correspondence at lower left.
Figure 2
Letter from IBU secretary Arthur Burrows, Sept 9, 1932, circulating a report compiled from a questionnaire. Note the stamp ‘Archives’ below the handwritten pencil notation of the box number and classification in the upper-right corner, which may not be contemporaneous with each other. Source: EBU Archives, Geneva, IBU archive, Box 74, Propagande de l’Union des members.
Figure 3
Letter from A.M. Dean, Secretary of the EBU Sound Broadcasting Programme Committee, to member organisations, December 10, 1964 (reference 38.463). Source: EBU Archives, Geneva. EBU Radio Committee files, box RC4. Note numbered references to three other documents: a report of the Sound Broadcasting Programme Committee, a decision of the Administrative Council and a previous letter from the committee.
Figure 4
Files of the EBU Radio (Programme) Committee as the author found them in 2010. The two on the left are the end of the series of reports and meetings of the committee in English (labelled as such in French), which ran up to 1999, and then the parallel documents in French begin from the committee’s founding in 1965.
Figure 5
A souvenir from a gathering with American broadcasters from NBC and CBS, presumably 1939, which highlights the friendly rivalry, the role of the IBU as ‘neutral’ arbiter, as well as the gendered social culture of the gathering. Source: EBU archives, Geneva, IBU archive, box 58 photographs.
Figure 6
Raymond Braillard (centre) with Chief Engineer of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), O.B. Hanson (left), and another broadcasting expert in between meetings at Ouchy, 1941. Source: EBU archives, Geneva, Archives of the International Broadcasting Union, box 58 photographs.