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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2013 : Issue 116
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Thank you for a wonderful 30 plus ye  [ "Steven Kelez" <skelez@[removed]; ]
      Peter Bogdanovich                     [ booksteve@[removed] ]
      Percentage of US households with rad  [ BoB M <r_j_mort@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 3-9 Novem  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Percentage of US households with rad  [ "celticone22-radiodigest@[removed]" ]
      War of the Worlds - Peter Bogdonovic  [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      Population with radios                [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
      [removed] homes with radios                [ Jim Hilliker <jimhilliker@sbcglobal ]
      Bogdanovich and Welles                [ Michael Berger <[removed]@yaho ]
      Re: Peter Bogdanovich and WOTW        [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]
      War of Worlds fallout                 [ Mary Poehler <MoCelt@[removed]; ]
      More WotW Stuff                       [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]

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    Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:08:33 -0400
    From: "Steven Kelez" <skelez@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Thank you for a wonderful 30 plus years
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    I recently folded up the Radio Showcase tent after 30 great years serving
    this hobby. Over this time, I have accumulated a large collection of
    recordings, Books, magazines, fanzines, catalogs, and misc. recording
    equipment. The problem now is continuing to house everything. Therefore, I
    have decided to slowly sell off what I can. I have over 7000 master
    cassettes and 3400 CDs I used in the business. If anyone would like to make
    a reasonable offer for either group of recordings please contact me off
    list. I also have a number of excellent condition industrial cassette
    duplicators, though these days cassettes are not very viable. In addition,
    if you need blank cassettes I have 110 blank music grade cassettes and
    Norelco style cases going real cheap. Of the books I have, the crown jewel
    is a limited edition of "From Out of the Past - a Pictorial History of the
    Lone Ranger." It is number 66 of 250 and signed by Dave Holland. Again, if
    interested make an offer. I plan to slowly go through the collection listing
    the items, and if you have an interest in such things send me an email and
    I'll forward a sales list from time to time.

    The Web site, [removed], is still active, though you cannot
    order anything. I have left it in place for the time being as a resource for
    existing recordings, and I may do something else with it in the future.

    In addition, I would like to send out a very big thank you to all my past
    customers and friends that this wonderful hobby afforded me. Old time radio
    will live forever no matter what method of delivery comes next.

    Steven Kelez

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    Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:09:37 -0400
    From: booksteve@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Peter Bogdanovich
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    Regarding the question of the involvement of Peter Bogdanovich in the War of
    the Worlds documentary, I'm certain it's because of his personal history as a
    confidante and biographer of Welles.

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    Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:10:17 -0400
    From: BoB M <r_j_mort@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Percentage of US households with radios in 1938
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    As this chart shows:

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    Radio penetration went from 50% in 1935 to 80% in 1940, so a reasonable extrapolation for late 1938 would be in the 75% area.

    The chart is an interesting display of the rise and fall of telecommunication products since 1920.

    Bob Mortimer

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    Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:10:23 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 3-9 November

     From Those Were The Days -

    11/5

    1934   The first broadcast of The Gumps was heard on CBS. Wilmer Walter
    played Andy Gump, Agnes Moorehead was Gump's wife, Min, and Jackie Kelk
    was son, Chester. Karo syrup and Pebico toothpaste/tooth powder sponsored.

    1950   "The greatest stars of our time on one big program" was the
    introduction by actress Tallulah Bankhead, who opened the 90 minute Big
    Show on NBC. It was a big show all right. The peacock saw red as losses
    exceeded a million dollars ($9,409,492,629 in 2012 dollars) in the three
    years the program was on the air.

    11/7

    1932   CBS presented the first broadcast of Buck Rogers in the 25th
    Century. Matt Crowley, Curtis Arnall, Carl Frank and John Larkin played
    Buck in the serial over the years (1932 1947).

    1937   Dr. Christian debuted on CBS. Jean Hersholt played the part of
    the kindly, elderly Dr. Christian who practiced on the air until 1954.
    Laureen Tuttle, Kathleen Fitz, Helen Kleeb and Rosemary De Camp played
    his nurse, Judy. The Dr. Christian theme song was Rainbow on the River.
    Sponsors of the show included Vaseline (petroleum jelly, hair tonic and
    lip ice).

    1938   The first broadcast of This Day is Ours was heard on CBS. Eleanor
    McDonald, played by Joan Banks and later by Templeton Fox, had all kinds
    of problems. Her child was kidnapped, she lost her memory, helped a
    friend find a killer, etc. The soap opera ran for two years.

    11/9

    1948   This is Your Life debuted on NBC. Ralph Edwards hosted the radio
    show for two years before it moved to television.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:10:44 -0400
    From: "celticone22-radiodigest@[removed]" <celticone22-radiodigest@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Percentage of US households with radios in 1938

    Don Holshuh asked:

>     Does anyone have figures on how many US households had radios in 1938
>     or other years for that matter?

    The link below takes you to the website "Radio History: 1937".   There Donna
    L Halper, Assistant Professor of Communication at Lesley University,
    Cambridge, MA, states "It was estimated that over 80% of the population had
    at least one radio, and millions now had radios in their [removed]"

    [removed]

    Anne Walker

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    Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:10:57 -0400
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  War of the Worlds - Peter Bogdonovich

    Joe Salerno asked:

>     "Another thing I wondered about in the PBS program - Peter Bogdanovich.
>     What was his connection to the event?"

    Peter Bogdonovich having been a film director and critic made Orson
    Welles his life's interest and has been for a long time, an expert on
    Welles' life especially as a director and entertainer.  Besides books on
    legendary directors he also co-wrote a bio book (with Orson Welles) on
    the director's life in film and entertainment called "This Is Orson Welles."

    Jim Widner

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    Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:11:14 -0400
    From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Population with radios

    Don Holshuh wondered:

>     "Does anyone have figures on how many US households had radios in 1938
>     or other years for that matter? "

    According to Hadley Cantril's book on the impact of War of the Worlds
    when it was published in 1940 (presumably written in 1939-50), he says:
    "It is estimated that of the 32,000,000 families in the United States
    27,500,000 have [removed]"  So I would say you have your percentage
    backwards and 20% do NOT have radios versus the 80% who do.

    Jim Widner

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    Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:11:23 -0400
    From: Jim Hilliker <jimhilliker@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  [removed] homes with radios
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    Hi.  In reply to Don A. Holshuh's request for some data on the number or
    percentage of [removed] homes with radios, I've found some reliable sources and
    others where I can't tell where they got their statistics.  I have a copy of
    the 1938 Radio Annual, from their "Facts and Figures" page. It stated that as
    of the beginning of 1938, "out of 31,500,000 [removed] families, more than
    25,000,000 have radio sets."  That comes out to [removed] percent of [removed] families,
    but I don't know if that means the same as households.   The 1938 Radio Annual
    also said that of the 25 million American families at least one radio set in
    the home, 4,500,000 had two or three radio sets in the home.  Plus, there were
    5 million radios in automobiles in 1938.  In addition, the average radio was
    in use 4 hours each day, and that on average, radio sets were replaced every 3
    years.   (The 1938 Radio Annual also said there 723 radio stations in the
    United States then, with NBC having 143
     affiliates, CBS with 115 stations and Mutual with 76.)

    Another website
    listed some stats from the Radio Advertising Bureau, and all they had was 39%
    of homes with radio in 1930 and 73% of [removed] homes had radio in 1940.

    From
    the March 1928 publication "Radio Retailing", January of 1924 showed that
    about [removed] of [removed] homes had a radio set; [removed] in January of 1925; 18% in
    January of 1926; [removed] in January of 1927 and [removed] in January of 1928.
    Author Susan [removed] in her book "Listening-In-Radio and the Amrrican
    Imagination" on page 128 said that by 1933, [removed] of [removed] households had at
    least one radio.  But, the 1938 figures I've found indicate less than 80% of
    homes had radios, more like 70%.  I'd like to see figures on how may homes in
    the [removed] had radios during World War II to 1950 or so.

    Jim Hilliker
    Monterey,
    CA

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    Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:11:52 -0400
    From: Michael Berger <[removed]@[removed];
    To: otr <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Bogdanovich and Welles

    The film director Peter Bogdanovich was an admirer of Welles and wrote a
    fascinating book, This Is Orson Welles, about his career.
    Welles, though a marvelous story teller and favored talk show guest, was
    notoriously unreliable in recalling his own 'history' - including the War of
    the Worlds story.
    The interview excerpts of Welles on the BBC podcast about WofW gave a
    dramatic but factually unsupported version of events during and after the
    1938 broadcast.
    Perhaps he borrowed from reports in the next day's NY Times, which wrote of
    'thousands' of phone calls and 'hundreds' of panic-stricken NYC residents,
    with no supporting facts save a few quotes from individuals.
    Another aspect of that program that I failed to note in my earlier post was
    that the print media reaction to the show was dictated in part by its
    competitive emotions regarding the rising role of radio in news reporting in
    the late 1930s. - Michael Berger

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    Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:13:15 -0400
    From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Peter Bogdanovich and WOTW

    On 11/2/2013 joe salerno wrote:

>     Another thing I wondered about in the PBS program - Peter Bogdanovich. What
>     was his connection to the event? The manner in which he was presented seemed
>     to indicate that he had some knowledge or connection to the event or the
>     people. Yet I see from a wiki article that he was not born until a year after
>     the broadcast took place. Anything he reports is not first hand experience. So
>     why him? Why not someone who lived thru the event?

    Peter Bogdanovich was a close personal friend of Orson Welles. Welles
    stayed at the Bogdanovich home whenever he was in LA. Bogdanovich made
    at least two significant films based on Welles' filming methods--great
    depth of field, black and white, etc., all contrary to Hollywood.

    There is no question that in the many evenings Welles must have spent
    with Bogdanovich that WOTW would be discussed in detail.

    Don Shenbarger

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    Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:13:25 -0400
    From: Mary Poehler <MoCelt@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  War of Worlds fallout

    Toward the end of his life, Orson Wells was befriended by  Peter Bogdanovich
    and I believe even lived in a guest house on his property.

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    Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:17:24 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  More WotW Stuff

    Folks;

       Am slowly gathering up some other media material relating to Welles' The
    War of the Worlds broadcast; I've slightly reorganized the shared Copy folder
    gathering it together into a "War of the Worlds Material" folder, and will
    continue to add stuff as I receive them. If you don't currently have access
    to the folder, just drop a note to me with your Copy account email address
    and I'll get you added. If you need info on a free Copy account, let me know.

             Charlie

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