Subject: [removed] Digest V2016 #21
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Date: 3/27/2016 10:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2016 : Issue 21
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: The Long Pregnancy                [ skallisjr@[removed] ]
      Radio Preservation Task Force (RPTF)  [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      Re: the long pregnancy                [ karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@hotma ]
      Truth or Consequences                 [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 27 March   [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Volunteers                            [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]

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    Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 10:54:30 -0400
    From: skallisjr@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: The Long Pregnancy

    Jack French otrpiano@[removed] notes,

>     radio time was seldom in the same time zone as real life. In a kids'
>     adventure program Captain Midnight might take off from Washington, DC
>     and land in darkest Africa two minutes later, according to your kitchen
>     clock.

    Radio time within a show was hardly like real time.  A musical bridge
    could take the story from one location to another in seconds.  With a
    narrator, time could be bridged for far longer times.  In The Lone Ranger
    story about establishing the Western Union telegraph network, in one half
    hour, months were bridged.  Time was always variable in OTR shows.
    However, it's worth observing as almost an aside that the Captain
    Midnight program, stuck in the middle of the "kid show" hours, was quite
    popular among adults.  According to Lyle Bergmann, Ovaltine's marketing
    manager in the 1970s,the audience mix for the show was evenly divided
    between juveniles and adults. (During World War II, it was reported to
    have been a favorite of Air Corps flight crews.)

    Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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    Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 10:55:22 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Radio Preservation Task Force (RPTF) Conference

    Karl Schadow, Martin Grams, Jr. and I were among the hundreds of attendees
    to the RPTF Conference held the last weekend in February 2016 at the Library
    of Congress and the Library of American Broadcasting in Hornbake Library at
    the University of Maryland. The conference covered a wide range of important
    topics relating to OTR including audio retention by libraries, museums and
    archives, policies about what is archived and how, as well as increasing
    pubic access to all audio archives throughout the [removed]

    The best summary of this conference was written by Martin and you can read
    it at:

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    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
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    Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 10:55:55 -0400
    From: karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re:  the long pregnancy

    If anyone has to hand Mary Jane Higby's lovely little book of reminiscences,
    TUNE IN TOMORROW, it may help.  I distinctly remember an anecdote therein of
    an actor saying to a colleague whose character had long been expecting:  "You
    have now passed the gestation period for an elephant," which, I gather, tops
    600 [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 10:56:24 -0400
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Truth or Consequences

>       the show was, at least in part, a spoof of quiz shows.
>         So, would that make it an anti-quiz show (as in anti-hero)?  :)

    I'd call it an audience-participation show.  Take away the ersatz quiz
    show elements, and it's very similar to Art Linkletter's "People are Funny."

    --
    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]| 92 State Street| Suite 700 | Boston, MA 02109-2004
    [removed]|[removed]| [removed]

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    Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 10:56:32 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 27 March to 2 April

     From Those Were The Days

    3/27

    1943   Blue Ribbon Town was first heard on CBS.

    3/28

    1941   Louella Parsons hosted Hollywood Premiere for the first time on
    CBS. The gossip columnist introduced famous guests who appeared in
    dramatized stories.

    1944   WQXR in New York City, owned by The New York Times newspaper,
    banned singing commercials from its airwaves as of this day.
    Understandable, since the station has always been the classical music
    voice of Manhattan and there aren't many classical singing commercials.

    3/29

    1932   Jack Benny appeared on radio for the first time. He agreed to
    join then newspaper columnist, Ed Sullivan, on his interview show.

    1937   The serial, Our Gal Sunday, debuted. The question, "Can this girl
    from a small mining town in the West find happiness as the wife of a
    wealthy and titled Englishman?" was asked each day for next 22 years.

    3/30

    1936   The serial Backstage Wife made a move across the dial from the
    Mutual Broadcasting System to NBC. Once there, the program continued to
    air for the next 23 years.

    1945   The Dreft Star Playhouse was heard for the final time. The show
    had been paying up to $3,000 per week ($39,032 in 2015 dollars) to
    attract name talent.

    3/31

    1937   Phil Harris recorded one of his best-known songs, That's What I
    Like About the South.

    1953   Cavalcade of America was heard for the final time on network
    radio. It had been the longest running show of its kind. Cavalcade of
    America presented dramatized events in American history for 18 years.

    4/1

    1941   The first contract for advertising on a commercial FM station
    began on W71NY in
    New York City.

    1949   The first all black cast variety show, Happy Pappy was presented
    on WENR TV in  Chicago, IL

    4/2

    1947   The Big Story was first heard on NBC. It stayed on the air for
    eight years.

    Joe

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    Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 10:59:38 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Volunteers

    Folks;

       Still need a few volunteers to test out cloud-sharing services, so we can
    replace the Copy account we're using now to share OTR shows, documantaries,
    video, etc. I'd like to test out various available services, and see which
    will be the easiest for subscribers to use to access all the stuff currently
    available on Copy.

             Charlie

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