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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2019 : Issue 43
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  The Glowing Dial has returned to Yes  [ JOHN MATTHEWS <glowingdial@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 25-31 Aug  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:09:22 -0400
From: JOHN   MATTHEWS   <glowingdial@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Glowing Dial has returned to Yesterday USA

Hello fellow OTR Fans,

I haven't posted here in some time and I really should have been doing so, at
least to promote The Glowing Dial tri-weekly podcast. Steve and I are still
producing new episodes and the latest is Episode # POD94. The line-up follows:

Big John and Steve go on Vacation!

The Bickersons - "The Gooseby Vacation"
originally aired on Tuesday, July 10, 1951 on CBS
Starring: Lew Parker, Frances Langford, Tony Romano and His Orchestra.
Frank Behrens announcing commercials.
John Holbrook announcing program.
Sponsor: Philip Morris

My Favorite Husband - "Where To Vacation?"
originally aired on Friday, April 29, 1949 on CBS
Starring: Lucille Ball, Richard Denning, Ruth Perrot, Frank Nelson.
Bob Lemond announcing.
Sponsor: Jell-O

The Jack Benny Program - "Vacation Plans"
originally aired on Sunday, June 9, 1940 on NBC
Starring: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Andy Devine.
Don Wilson announcing.
Sponsor: Jell-O

The Mysterious Traveler - "Vacation From Life"
originally aired on Sunday, September 7, 1947 on MUTUAL
Starring: Maurice Tarplin, Eric Dressler, Vicki Vola, Helen Titus, Stefan
Schnabel.
Carl Caruso announcing.
Sponsor: Sustained

running time: 2 hours, 51 minutes, 17 seconds
This show runs between August 11 and 31, 2019.
To listen, visit [removed]

Also, I know most of you have heard that Bill Bragg, the founder of Yesterday
USA has passed away. This hit Steve and I very hard as we were good friends
with Bill since we met him in 1996. Bill made a young kid's dream come true
.. to play old time radio shows on the radio. Steve and I are eternally
grateful to Bill and YUSA for that. We did The Glowing Dial for YUSA from
1996 to 2001. We had to leave the station due to personal and health issues
of mine. After a few years we brought the show back on [removed], The
Olde Tyme Radio Network and Stay Tuned America. More "issues" for me and we
had another long hiatus of nearly 7 years! We started back in April of 2014
with new shows (some delayed a bit due to ongoing health problems) and we're
still going strong! Bill Bragg's wife Kim contacted us recently and asked us
to do some fill-in shows for YUSA. I told her we'd be happy to and we have.
We've sent her 4 shows thusfar and are making more up almost as I write this.
These shows will be exclusive to YUSA for their initial run. We'll probably
put them onto our Archives page after their run on YUSA. We'll do as many of
these as Kim needs. If we're offered a permanent spot on YUSA, we'll go for
it to be sure. In the meantime, our fill-in shows will be heard. The first of
these is playing during this 2 week period August 12 thru 25, 2019. The
line-up and playdates are below:

Episode: YUSAF001
Airing between August 12 and August 25, 2019
Running time: 1 hr. 55 min.

The Lux Radio Theatre - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Originally aired on Monday, December 1, 1947 on CBS
Sponsored by Lux Soap Flakes
Starring: Charles Boyer, Madeleine Carroll, Bill Johnstone, Regina Wallace,
Carl Marbord, Anne Whitfield, Alvina Temple, Gloria Gordon, Eileen Erskine,
Ramsey Hill. William Keighley hosts. John Milton Kennedy announces.

Screen Director's Playhouse - It's In The Bag
Originally aired on Friday, February 17, 1950 on NBC
Sponsored by RCA Victor
Starring: Fred Allen, Lurene Tuttle, Alan Reed, Frank Nelson, Hans Conreid.
Richard Wallace (Director). Jimmy Wallington announces.

Strange - Greenwood Acres
Originally aired in 1955 (no exact date known)
Sustained
Starring: Alice Frost, Court Benson. Walter Gibson hosts. Charles Woods
announces.

Airdates on Yesterday USA Radio:

8/14  4-6pm  YUSA Red
8/15  8-10am  YUSA Red
8/16  4-6am  YUSA Red
8/17  6:30-8:30pm  YUSA Blue
8/18  9-11am  YUSA Blue
8/19  8-10pm  YUSA Red
8/20  6-8am  YUSA Red
8/21  10am-12pm  YUSA Red
8/22  12midnight-2am  YUSA Red
8/23  12noon-2pm  YUSA Red
8/24  6:30-8:30pm  YUSA Blue
8/25  9-11am  YUSA Blue

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Please don't forget that YUSA and The Glowing Dial need your donations to
keep on keepin' on. For The Glowing Dial, we have a PayPal link on The
Glowing Dial Page just below the Main Menu. Yesterday USA has a link right on
their home page too. If you like what you're hearing, please consider
supporting either or both of us! Thanks in advance!

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Thanks for reading this hideously large post! I'll post again when new shows
premiere. See you on the radio!
Big John Matthews
The Glowing Dial
Celebrating Old Time Radio and Things Nostalgic

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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:09:43 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 25-31 August

 From Those Were The Days

8/25

1949   NBC debuted Father Knows Best. The Thursday night program aired
for five years. Robert Young played the role of Jim Anderson, the ever
patient father. The rest of the family included wife Margaret, son Bud
and lovely daughters Betty (the eldest) and Kathy. The family lived on
Maple Street in Springfield.

8/26

1939   Arch Oboler's Plays presented the NBC Symphony, for the first
time, as the musical backdrop for the drama, This Lonely Heart.

8/28

1922   The first paid commercial to be broadcast on radio was heard on
WEAF in New York City. Announcer [removed] Blackwell spoke about Hawthorne
Court, a group of apartment buildings in Queens, New York. The
Queensboro Realty Company, of Jackson Heights, bought what was called
Toll Broadcasting. WEAF, owned by AT&T, sold their block programming,
five one minute programs, one a day for five days, for $50 ($759 in 2018
dollars) plus long distance toll fees. The Queensboro Realty Company
paid $100 ($1518 in 2018 *) for 10 minutes of commercial airtime.
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1938    The first degree given to a ventriloquist's dummy is awarded to
Charlie McCarthy  Edgar Bergen's wooden partner. The honorary degree,
"Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback", is presented on radio by Ralph
Dennis, the dean of the School of Speech at Northwestern University.

8/30

1951   Screen Directors' Playhouse was heard for the final time on NBC.
The program had featured some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

8/31

1941   The Great Gildersleeve, a spin off of Fibber McGee and Molly,
started on NBC.

1942   "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ... the caped crusader
returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Superman had been
dropped from the program schedule earlier in the year, but the outrage
of youngsters brought the show back to the airwaves. Wow! The amazing
power of Kryptonite in the hands of kids! Bud Collyer, later of TV's
Beat the Clock and To Tell The Truth, played Clark Kent aka Superman on
the series.

Joe

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