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Date: 3/10/2013 10:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2013 : Issue 29
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 10-16 Mar  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 11:40:28 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 10-16 March

     From Those Were The Days

    3/10

    1922   Variety magazine greeted readers with the front page headline
    that read, "Radio Sweeping Country -- 1,000,000 Sets in Use."

    1955   The last broadcast of The Silver Eagle was heard.

    3/12

    1933   Eight days after he was inaugurated, [removed] President Franklin
    Delano Roosevelt presented his first presidential address to the nation.
    It was the first of what were called Roosevelt's famous Fireside Chats.
    The name, incidentally, was coined by newsman, Robert Trout. He thought
    that the President sounded as if he was sitting with us in living rooms
    all over the nation next to a roaring fire, just telling it like it was.

    3/13

    1923   A great improvement in radio receivers was advertised. The new
    models had a concealed speaker and eliminated the need for headphones,
    which were considered a nuisance because they were so heavy to wear and
    messed up hairdos. The new radios were also said to have a "foolproof"
    design.

    3/14

    1937   Fred Allen and Jack Benny met in one of the biggest publicity
    gags ever. It was called, "The Battle of the Century."  The two
    comedians locked horns in the ballroom of the Hotel Pierre, exchanging
    torrid insults that were heard by the second largest audience in the
    history of radio.

    Joe

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