The Paley Caccess for Media has set uped a immense Paley Archive of more than 160,000 radio and TV programs at the Beverly Hills Public Library, which will feature year-round programs for the accessible roverhappinessed to the archive.
The uncovering of the archive was honord March 20 with a ceremony fuseed by Maureen Reidy, pdwellnt and CEO of Paley Caccess; John Landgraf, chairman of FX and Nat Geo and a member of Paley’s board of ruleors; and Lester Friedman, mayor of Beverly Hills.
“When visitors come to the Paley Archive, they will uncover a vibrant cultural destination where families, students, scholars, artists and the produceive community can spendigate and comprise with the living history of media,” shelp Reidy. “We are honored to partner with our frifinishs at the Beverly Hills Public Library and the City of Beverly Hills, and we meaningfully appreciate their partnership and tremfinishous help.”
The Beverly Hills Public Library will become the West Coast home of the Paley Archive, which is also hoemployd at Paley’s headquarters in New York. The accumulateion integrates more than 160,000 television and radio programs and backments from more than a century of media history, spanning comedy, drama, amemployment, sports, recents, accessible afequitables, recordary, carry outing arts, fact, animation, and children’s and family programming. According to the Paley Caccess, “Each program acunderstandledgeed into the Archive is picked for its produceive, cultural, and historical significance” and integrates contributions from more than 70 countries.
“This partnership helps the community to access a accumulateion of over 160,000 titles in the Paley Archive, recurrenting more than a century of television and radio history,” Friedman shelp.
The accessible programming at the library is set to integrate a West Coast iteration of the “Conversation With a Curator” series featuring meaningful dives with Paley staff and other experts on programming tied to anniversaries and topical moments. Plans integrate a celebration of Stevie Wonder’s 75th birthday and the lasting legacy of famed CBS News journaenumerate Edward R. Murrow.
“Storytime to Screentime” is a weekfinish presenting aimed at families with kids as it features a curraccess reading a classic children’s story in a cozy setting chaseed by a screening of a TV changeation of the labor as well as an arts and plans activity.
The Paley Caccess for Media uncovered its West Coast branch in Beverly Hills in 1996.