| Title |
Lester Erbes, Moab, Utah, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
Lester Erbes, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Erbes, Lester |
| Contributor |
Guttman, Steve |
| Date |
1970-08-12 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Moab, Grand County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Erbes, Lester--Interviews; Moab (Utah); Broadcasters--United States |
| Description |
Transcript (40 pages) of an interview by Steve Guttman with Lester Erbes, on August 12, 1970. From tape number 40 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Steve Guttman interviewed Erbes, a broadcaster, in Moab. Subjects: personal background, recreational activities, television station, Moab as tourist center, poverty, politics, problems in Moab, future of Moab, Canyonlands (40 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
23 pages, 49 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6fb78x2 |
| Topic |
Broadcasters; Utah--Moab |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056188 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fb78x2 |
| Title |
Page 30 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056172 |
| OCR Text |
Show LESTER ERBES 111 commercial for them, a one-minute spot usually, and I charge them on a regular-spot basis each month. So that's where I can make a living. SG: Not counting the network news, are you the only news broadcaster for this station then? LE: In TV, yes. Radio, of course, has its news. SG: Yes, I know this. LE: they have four newscasts a day. But other than that and the newspaper, I'm the only one on TV. SG: About sponsors for your show, you said they've been the same ones, so I gather they're quire happy? LE: I guess they're satisfied. SG: Initially did you have problems in getting sponsors? LE: No, I didn't. I had a whale of a news-following from radio. I was out of radio, let's see, from August 'till October. I left the radio station. We just couldn't agree on how much money I was worth. I started this TV program three months later. When they heard that Les Erbes was going to be on news on TV, it was a very simple things to get sponsors. SG: Do you make more money off the television station than you did? LE: Than I did in radio? SG: Yeah. LE: I do, a little bit more. Not a great deal more. But I've 26 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fb78x2/1056172 |
