This is just one of the many 2-inch quadruplex videotapes housed in WKU Archives. These tapes were first created for use in television production in 1956. Quads were phased out in the early-1980s and replaced by smaller videotapes. WKU no longer owns playback equipment for these tapes.
WKYU-TV recorded many programs using quad tapes that are being digitized through a $7500.00 WKU Libraries grant. In September 59 quad tapes were shipped to Transfer Media in Indianapolis for digitization to DVD. The first shipment of DVDs arrived at the Kentucky Building this week.
Theses titles are now available to researchers, some are available on TopScholar and on the WKU Library Special Collections YouTube channel.
- Comment on Kentucky – TVA at the Crossroads, 7/10/1975, CD824 Al Smith interviewing Aubrey Wagner re: energy, sustainability, Economics
- Dero Downing Appreciation Dinner, Part I, 12/14/1978, CD820
- Dero Downing Appreciation Dinner, Part II, 12/14/1978, CD817
- Donald Zacharias Installation, Part I, 4/26/1980, CD822
- Joe Downing Interview, 6/8/1982, CD827
- Kentucky Presidential Primary live from WKU WTVF Channel 5, Nashville, 5/25/1976, CD828
- Trapped: The Ordeal of Floyd Collins, A Discussion of the Incident and the Book with Robert Murray, Spring 1980, CD823, includes David Lee and Tom Chaney
- Western Reports: 1972/73 Campus Introduction, CD819, aerial footage of campus, registration, basketball, football, ROTC and weather station
- Western Reports: Agriculture, 10/25/1972, CD829 Helen Crocker, Tom Dunn, Billy Adams, Chester Davis, Ted Thomas, James Worthington, Gordon Jones, WKU Farm and Computer Science
- Western Reports: Gemini 15, 4:51 CD826 Helen Crocker interviewing Howard Carpenter and Dot Darby
- Western Reports: Home Economics, A New Look, 11/16/1972, CD830 Helen Crocker, Tom Dunn, Martha Jenkins and Roy Hedges
- Western Reports: New Dimensions in Library, Tom Dunn & Earl Wassom, 4/22/1974, CD818
- Western Show Choir, Red Inc. 8/13/1979, CD825 performances on WKU Campus, Fountain Square Park and Riverview at Hobson Grove
- WKU Forum: Poetry of William Stafford, 5/7/1981, CD831 Jim Wayne Miller interviewing William Stafford
- WKU Forum: Poetry of William Stafford, promotion , 5/1981, CD821, Jim Wayne Miller
Researchers can find other audio and video materials in WKU Archives by using KenCat.