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Date: 1/24/2018 10:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2018 : Issue 10
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 14-20 Jan  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Columbia Players Lab?                 [ Michele Hilmes <mhilmes@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 21-27 Jan  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:01:32 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 14-20 January

    1/14

    1927   Jack Benny married Sadye Marks on this day.

    1939   The program, Honolulu Bound, was heard on CBS. Phil Baker and the
    Andrews Sisters were featured on the program.

    1/15

    1945   Art Linkletter starred on the CBS debut of House Party. The show
    continued on the air for 22 years, including a long stint on CBS t--------n.

    1/16

    1939 - The shrill siren call of radio's "I Love a Mystery" was heard for
    the first time as the show debuted on NBC's West-Coast outlets.

    1/17

    1938   Francis X. Bushman was the star of the program, Stepmother, which
    debuted on CBS. The show continued on the air for the next four years.

    1/18

    1929   New York Daily Mirror columnist Walter Winchell made his debut on
    radio, broadcasting a blend of political commentary and celebrity gossip
    to "Mr. and Mrs. [removed]" His quick jabbing, penetrating manner
    became his trademark. And so did wearing his fedora hat.

    1937   CBS introduced listeners to Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories for
    the first time. A complete story was told in five, 15 minute episodes
    which aired Monday thru Friday each week. Aunt Jenny was played by Edith
    Spencer and later, by Agnes Young. The show continued on radio until
    1956 and was sponsored over the years by Spry shortening and Lux soap.
    Aunt Jenny's whistling canary, for those of you ready to inquire, was
    played by animal imitator, Henry Boyd.

    1/20

    1954   The National Negro Network was formed. Some 40 radio stations
    were charter members of the network.

    Joe

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    Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:02:48 -0500
    From: Michele Hilmes <mhilmes@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Columbia Players Lab?

    Does anyone have information about a show produced in 1953 to 54 called
    Columbia Players Lab or Columbia Radio Players?  I've been browsing through
    the holdings of an archive and this popped up - no other data.  But there
    are 66 transcription discs in the collection, so it wasn't a complete flash
    in the pan.

    Would love to know more -- Michele

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    Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:02:57 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 21-27 January

    1/21

    1927   The first opera to be broadcast over a national radio network was
    presented in Chicago, IL. Listeners heard selections from Faust.

    1946   The Fat Man debuted on ABC. J. Scott Smart, who played the portly
    detective, weighed in at 270 pounds in real life.

    1/22

    1956   Raymond Burr starred as Captain Lee Quince in the Fort Laramie
    debut on CBS. The program was said to be in "the Gunsmoke tradition."

    1/23

    1937   In an article published in Literary Digest, Edgar Bergen
    mentioned that he made his dummy pal, Charlie McCarthy, the beneficiary
    of a $10,000 trust fund ($173,640 in 2017 dollars) to keep him in
    serviceable condition and repair.

    1/24

    1930   Ben Bernie (Benjamin Anzelwitz) began a weekly remote broadcast
    from the lovely Roosevelt Hotel in NYC.

    1942 - Abie's Irish Rose was first heard on NBC this day replacing
    Knickerbocker Playhouse. The program was based on the smash play from
    Broadway that ran for nearly 2,000 performances. Sydney Smith played the
    part of Abie. Rosemary Murphy was played by Betty Winkler.

    1/25

    1937   NBC presented the first broadcast of The Guiding Light.

    1944   The character, a black maid named Beulah and played by a white
    man, Marlin Hurt, aired for the first time on Fibber McGee and Molly.
    The spinoff, Beulah, became a radio series in 1945.

    1/26

    1947   The Greatest Story Ever Told was first heard on ABC.

    1/27

    1931 - NBC radio introduced listeners to "Clara, Lu 'n' Em" on its Blue
    network (later, ABC radio). The show became the first daytime radio
    serial when it was moved from its original nighttime slot.

    1948 - Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first
    magnetic wire recorder. The `Wireway' machine with a built-in oscillator
    sold for $[removed] ($1,[removed] in 2017 dollars dollars).

    1956 - The "CBS Radio Workshop" was heard for the first time. This first
    broadcast featured Aldous Huxley narrating his classic, "Brave New World".

    Joe

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