This collection features 50 years of radio, television and film productions, papers, and photographs documenting the founding and growth of a religious broadcast entity based in Atlanta, Georgia. In July 1945 in Montreat, North Carolina, The Protestant Hour radio program was launched by an informal association of denominations leaders which formed the Southern Religious Radio Conference. The first programs aired in 1945. The Protestant Radio Center was chartered in 1949 by Agnes Scott College, Candler School of Theology, Columbia Theological Seminary, Emory University, the Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church U.S., the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., the Protestant Episcopal Church, the United Lutheran Church, and the National Council of Churches Southeastern office. In 1953 a building for the PRC was erected near the Emory University campus. The name of the organization was changed in 1954 to The Protestant Radio and Television Center, Inc. (PRTVC) to accommodate the addition of television broadcast programming. Emory University purchased the property for campus expansion and the PRTVC Archives, composed of original material from 1945-1995, was donated to the University of Georgia Libraries' Media Archives in 2000. After that the PRTVC moved to the Pritchett Center on the campus of All Saints' Episcopal Church in Atlanta and in 2002 the name of the of the radio program The Protestant Hour was changed to Day 1. In 2004 the Protestant Hour organization merged with The Alliance for Christian Media.

The Protestant Hour received a Peabody Award in 1985 for broadcast excellence.

Protestant Radio Hour/ Day 1 radio program transcripts and Podcasts from 1996 to 2007 are available at: http://www.day1.net/index.php5?view=transcripts