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Researching Television News in the Era Before Videotape: Election-Night Forecasting, 1952 Ira Chinoy Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland

Unisys History Newsletter: “… Jack Gould, the television writer for The New York Times , was not impressed with either the UNIVAC or the much smaller Monrobot computer used by the NBC network: ‘Both gadgets were more of a nuisance than a help...’ "

NBC Trade Releases, 1952 Library of American Broadcasting, College Park, MD

CBS Press Releases, 1952 CBS Audience Services, NY

Keynote , Monroe Calculating Machine Co Monroe Systems for Business, Levittown, PA

Networks and computer makers team up, with ads making bold claims about computers and their upcoming election-night roles. Database: ProQuest Historical Newspapers

Microfilm: Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville, FL

Sperry-UNIVAC Computer History Company Records Records National Museum of Hagley Museum and American History, Library, Wilmington, DE Washington, DC

Letters from Viewers … to settle a bet about the candidate whom UNIVAC predicted to win Walter Cronkite Papers , Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin … asking for more information about the Monrobot Morgan Beatty Papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie

NBC Television Master Books Recorded Sound Reference Center, Library of Congress

Scripts and transcripts: Charles Collingwood Papers Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI

Logs: NBC Program Analysis Cards NBC News Archives, NY

CBS NBC ABC

1952 Election-night footage UNIVAC on CBS Monrobot on NBC Computer History Museum, NBC News Archives, NY Mountain View, CA CBS News Archives, NY Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia, Athens Paley Center For Media, NY

Johns Hopkins Science Review, WAAM, Baltimore, October 1952 Source: Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Newsreel Outtakes National Archives II, College Park, MD

Participants, Observers, Families

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