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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

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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

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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...’ "

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NBC Trade Releases, 1952

Library of American Broadcasting, College Park, MD

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CBS Press Releases, 1952

CBS Audience Services, NY

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Keynote, Monroe Calculating Machine Co

Monroe Systems for Business, Levittown, PA

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

Database: ProQuest Historical Newspapers

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Microfilm: Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville, FL

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Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE National Museum of American History, Washington, DC

Sperry-UNIVAC Company Records Computer History Records

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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

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Recorded Sound Reference Center, Library of Congress

NBC Television Master Books

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI

Scripts and transcripts: Charles Collingwood Papers

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Logs: NBC Program Analysis Cards

NBC News Archives, NY

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CBS NBC ABC

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1952 Election-night footage

UNIVAC on CBS Monrobot on NBC

Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA CBS News Archives, NY Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia, Athens Paley Center For Media, NY NBC News Archives, NY

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Johns Hopkins Science Review, WAAM, Baltimore, October 1952

Source: Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

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National Archives II, College Park, MD

Newsreel Outtakes

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Participants, Observers, Families

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