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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2019 : Issue 39
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 7-13 July [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 14-20 Jul [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:24:54 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 7-13 July
From The History Net
7/7
1927 Christopher Stone becomes the first British 'disc jockey' when
he plays records for the BBC.
From Those Were The Days
1920 A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time
on a [removed] Navy airplane near Norfolk, Virginia.
1943 Flashgun Casey was heard on radio. The name of the program had
several name changes, Casey, Press Photographer, Crime Photographer and
ended up as Casey, Crime Photographer.
7/8
1950 Joel McCrea appeared in the lead role of Tales of the Texas
Rangers on NBC.
7/11
1944 The Man Called X, starring Herbert Marshall, debuted on CBS.
7/12
1934 The first appointments to the newly created Federal
Communications Commission were made. The governing body of the American
broadcasting industry was first served by seven men named as commissioners.
1946 The Adventures of Sam Spade was heard on ABC for the first time.
Joe
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:25:04 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 14-20 July
From Those Were The Days
7/14
1957 Funnyman Stan Freberg debuted a new weekly comedy program on CBS.
The Freberg show only lasted a short time and that newfangled
contraption, television, was blamed for the show's quick demise.
7/16
1934 NBC Red network premiered the musical drama, Dreams Come True. It
was a show about baritone singer Barry McKinley and his novelist
sweetheart.
7/18
1936 The critically acclaimed, experimental theatre of the air, The
Columbia Workshop, debuted on CBS.
7/19
1942 The Seventh Symphony, by Shastakovich, was performed for the
first time in the United States by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony
Orchestra.
1948 Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden and Gale Gordon, debuted on
CBS this day.
7/20
1935 NBC debuted G men. The show was later renamed Gang Busters.
Joe
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