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Overview

​Scope and Content

Collection contains audio reels from Quin Mathews' work at radio station WRR.

Quin Mathews joined WRR in 1986, producing the twice-a-week short program Quin Mathews on Music.  In 1988, Fort Worth theater director Sharon Benge and Mathews began producing and hosting a weekly thirty-minute radio program Art Matters, which ran until 2012.  ​Mathews continued to contribute Christmas music programs for WRR.

Mathews was born and grew up in Dallas, attending Dallas public schools.  He began his journalism career as co-editor of the Hillcrest Hurricane in 1968.  From 1969 to 1973, he worked for The Daily Texan the student newspaper at the University of Texas at Austin.   In 1973, he joined the NBC affiliate in Austin as an anchor and reporter for KTVV (now KXAN) then joined KSAT in San Antonio, where he hosted the noon broadcast.  In 1978, he moved back to Dallas and worked as a reporter and anchor first at KDFW, then KRLD-TV (KDAF) and then at WFAA-TV until 1994.  ​Mathews next moved into independent filmmaking and journalism​, producing hundreds of films and videos on art and artists as well as history and culture.

​​Organization

The collection is arranged chronologically.

Access

Permission to publish, reproduce, distribute, or use by any and all other current or future developed methods or procedures must be obtained in writing from the Dallas Municipal Archives.  All rights are reserved and retained regardless of current or future development or laws that may apply to fair use standards.  The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Citation

Quin Mathews WRR Audio Collection, 1976-1988​​ (Box <x>, Folder <y>), Dallas Municipal Archives

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1991-024—WRR Municipal Radio, 1921-2020
2002-006—WRR Audiotape, 1991-1998
2023-005—George Potter WRR Photograph and Pamphlet Collection, 1926-1935

Index terms

Dallas -- Texas -- History
PERFORMING ARTS / General
WRR-FM (Radio Station: Dallas, Tex.)

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