From the Living Church-
Fifty years worth of Protestant Hour radio archives will be preserved, thanks to a $150,000 grant by the Lilly Foundation Inc.
“This enormous resource will shed light on how religious leaders dealt with the issues of an entire generation, from communism to civil rights, to women’s issues, and the growing secularization in society,” said the Rev. Louis Schueddig, president and executive director of Alliance Christian Media.
The restoration project affects 2,620 programs, aired from 1945 to 1995. In 2000 the recordings became part of the Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, Athens, but they have been deteriorating.
In 1949, four years after the Protestant Hour’s first program aired, the Episcopal Church joined several other institutions — including colleges and seminaries, the Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church U.S., the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., the United Lutheran Church, and the National Council of Churches’ Southeastern office — in chartering the Protestant Radio Center.
The organization built studios near Emory University and changed its name to the Protestant Radio and Television Center. It later became the Protestant Hour Inc. Since 2001 it has been based at the Pritchett Center on the All Saints’ Church campus in midtown Atlanta.
The Protestant Hour Inc. changed the name of its program to Day 1 in 2002. In 2004 it merged with the Episcopal Media Center. The new organization took the name of Alliance Christian Media.
The restored programming will be featured on Alliance Christian Media’s Day1.org.
http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2010/8/4/lilly-grant-helps-save-radio-archives
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