Series IX. Time-Life Broadcast/Time-Life Broadcast Inc. Records, 1937-1974, inclusive

The President Barry Zorthian Files cover the period of 1968 to 1974 and contain office subject and administration files, sales and acquisition information, and communications and information on Time-Life Broadcasting stations in various American cities: Denver, Indianapolis, San Diego, Grand Rapids, and Denver. Included in this series are prospective lists of officers and directors for sterling, project proposals, clippings, analysis of shareholder interest in sterling, press releases, meeting minutes, programming standards reports, reports on debenture accounts, engineering contract lists and schedules, franchised area maps, promotional materials, marketing reports, payroll reports, wage and price control reports, lists of stockholders, reports on public interest pamphlets, overtime summaries, clippings, Indianapolis chamber of commerce magazine issues, staff meeting summaries, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reports, notes, budget reports, financial statements, Apollo 11 tv schedules, transmitter maintenance logs, rent appraisal reports, agreements, newspaper guild contracts, notes, lists of bonuses, and correspondence. The correspondence discuss cable financing, board meetings, pending projects, proposal criticisms, summary of suburban franchises, programming for public channel launches, comments on assembly bill, program costs, summary of lease, equipment purchases, subscriptions, account activities, job terminations, salaries, staffing, film production, agreements, opposition to company sale, equipment loan agreements, new ownership, television ads, story retraction, travel schedules, rental appraisal, press conference, personnel, severance, newspaper guild contracts, bonuses, meetings, project announcements, Nielsen scores, programming schedule, payments, licensing, and revenue.

The Vice President Edgar Smith Files cover the period of 1962 to 1965 and consist of one box of materials regarding cable programming during the beginning of his time as vice president of Time-Life Broadcasting. Included in this series are budget reports, notes, clippings, schedules, show overviews, promotional brochures, and correspondence. Correspondence discusses agreements between Time and Sims Production, proposed agreements, co-operation for Tokyo Olympics radio programs, contact information, sponsor interest, brochure production, previews, and future projects.

Time-Life Broadcast, Inc. contains bound volumes of purchase and sale documents for various business deals of this subsidiary. Eacg volume contains agreements related to the sale or purchase of assets. Several volumes are embossed with "John F. Harvey," the Time Inc. comptroller. There is some crossover with RG 5: Series I.C.: Dead Companies.

The Morrie Roizman Files cover the period of 1937 to 1964 with the bulk covering 1961 to 1962. The materials included in this subseries focus on creating scripts for an attempted relaunch of March of Time. Included in this subseries are scripts, drafts of scripts, clippings, lists of scenes, lists of research information, and audio reels.

The Mel Baily Files on "Crusade in Europe" subseries contains the files accumulated by Mel Baily during the production of the The March of Time relaunch that occurred in the early 1960s by Time-Life Broadcast. Mel Baily was an executive with the New York television station WNEW which was owned by Metropolitan Broadcasting, a producer of the relaunch. The majority of files were labeled "Crusade in Europe." Crusade in Europe was a World War II documentary film series based on Dwight D. Eisenhower's book and produced by The March of Time, and originally released in 1949. It is unclear if this series was set to relaunch, if it was part of a new series, or if it was a template for the new series. Materials include scripts, sequence cards, purchase orders, contracts, correspondence related to the use of music and archival film footage, research materials, and music catalogs.