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Fiorani Radio Productions records

Angelo Fiorani was born in Tarquinia, Italy and came to America ca. 1905. Rose Florey Fiorani was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1902. Beginning in 1933, the Fioranis worked as "time brokers" for radio programming targeting Italian Americans and broadcast Italian programs on Scranton-...

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Corporate Author: Fiorani Radio Productions (Creator)
Collection:Fiorani Radio Productions Records
Collection Number:MSS049
Format: Manuscript
Language:Italian
Subjects and Genres:
Ethnic radio broadcasting > Pennsylvania.
Italian Americans > Pennsylvania > Anthracite region.
Radio advertising > Pennsylvania.
Scranton Civic Opera Guild (Scranton, Pa.).
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Physical Description: 9.4 Linear feet 25 boxes, 1 volume
Summary: Angelo Fiorani was born in Tarquinia, Italy and came to America ca. 1905. Rose Florey Fiorani was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1902. Beginning in 1933, the Fioranis worked as "time brokers" for radio programming targeting Italian Americans and broadcast Italian programs on Scranton-area radio stations, eventually owning and operating their own station, WPTS. The collection documents the Fioranis' forty-two years in broadcasting. It contains personal and business correspondence, advertisements and advertising account files, program schedules and scripts, financial records, uncatalogued photographs, fan mail, and souvenir programs of special events. The collection includes unprocessed additions. In English and Italian. Register available.

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