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This week in radio history 29 Novemb [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 08:12:23 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 29 November to 5 December
From Those Were The Days
11/29
1950 "I Fly Anything", starring singer Dick Haymes in the role of
cargo pilot Dockery Crane, premiered on ABC. With a title like that, is
it any wonder the show only lasted one season? Haymes went back to
singing and did very well, thank you.
11/30
1940 Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married.
12/2
1932 The Adventures of Charlie Chan was first heard on the NBC Blue
network.
12/3
1928 The first broadcast of The Voice of Firestone was heard. The
program aired each Monday evening at 8. The Voice of Firestone became a
hallmark in radio broadcasting. It kept its same night, time (in 1931
the start time changed to 8:30) and sponsor for its entire run.
Beginning on September 5, 1949, the program of classical and
semiclassical music was also seen on television.
12/4
1932 "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the
ships at sea. Let's go to press!" The Jergens Journal aka The Walter
Winchell Show and later, Kaiser Frazer News was first heard on the NBC
Blue network. Winchell kept that gossip show going on the radio for 23
years. It was sponsored at first by Jergens lotion and, later, by Dryad
deodorant, Kaiser Frazer cars and Richard Hudnut shampoo.
1933 One of America's great radio shows made the leap to the big time.
Ma Perkins moved from WLW in Cincinnati, OH to the NBC Red network. The
show proved to be so popular that it was later carried on both CBS and NBC.
12/5
1936 Bing Crosby took over as host of The Kraft Music Hall. Jimmy
Dorsey (who would later be host, himself) led the Kraft Orchestra.
1952 Mutual broadcast The Green Hornet for the final time. The show
left the air after 15 years on Mutual, NBC and ABC.
Joe
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