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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2020 : Issue 19
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 21-27 Jun  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      ADMINISTRIVIA: Recent Changes Within  [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]

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    Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 22:19:30 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 21-27 June

     From Those Were The Days -

    6/23

    1933   The Pepper Pot program welcomed a new host. Don McNeill took over
    the show and renamed it The Breakfast Club. The show, a huge success for
    the NBC Blue and later, ABC, became one of the longest running radio
    programs in history. The show aired with McNeill as host until December
    27, 1968. The Breakfast Club was a morning show that had its share of
    corny jokes, visiting celebrities and lots of audience participation.

    1941   Front Page Farrell was heard for the first time on Mutual. In
    1942 the program moved to NBC and stayed on the air until 1954. Sally
    and David Farrell were the central characters.

    1947   Wendy Warren and the News debuted on CBS. The broadcasts
    continued until 1958. No, the program was not a newscast, in the
    traditional sense. It was a serial one of many of the time. The unique
    thing about this particular show, however, was that Wendy Warren and the
    News did utilize a real three minute newscast to open the show. The
    newscaster, delivering the news as part of the show, chose not to stay
    in the entertainment side of radio, but continued to be a true
    journalist and a legend at CBS. That newsman was Douglas Edwards.

    6/24

    1960   The Romance of Helen Trent was heard for the last time. Helen and
    her boy toy, Gil Whitney, were about to be married, but the loving
    couple never made it to the altar just in case the show would ever be
    renewed. Helen Trent and her romance aired for 27 years, a total of
    7,222 episodes on CBS.

    6/25

    1942   The first broadcast of It Pays to Be Ignorant was aired on the
    Mutual Broadcasting System.

    6/26

    1933   The Kraft Music Hall debuted.

    1949   Fred Allen broadcast his final program, though he continued for
    several years to guest on other shows.

    6/27

    1943   The Dreft Star Playhouse debuted on NBC. Jane Wyman starred in
    the first broadcast, titled Bachelor Mother.

    1944   The Alan Young Show debuted on NBC. It was a summer replacement
    for the popular Eddie Cantor. The show became a regular in the fall NBC
    lineup.

    Joe

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    Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 12:06:03 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  ADMINISTRIVIA: Recent Changes Within and Without

    Folks;

       In the last issue of the Digest there were two postings noting how some
    things are changing related to Old-Time Radio; the recent removal of the OTR
    show from Wisconsin Public Radio, and the decision to remove Amos n Andy from
    the Radio Spirits catalog. By themselves, these posts contained important
    information for those of us in this hobby.

       But there have been a number of posts in response to these that are
    beginning to push into more contemporary themes and issues. There is, so
    there is no confusion, nothing "wrong" with these posts, but it is clear they
    will send the OTR Digest down a road I'd prefer it didn't go. Since I will
    inevitably need to stop the discussion, I've decided to do it NOW.  Some of
    you, particularly those who posted, will probably disagree with this
    decision, and that's ok. Feel free to contact me privately if you think I
    need to explain my reasoning more than I intend to here.

       There are seemingly massive shifts going on in the political landscape
    today. And these are IMPORTANT, certainly, and should be honestly discussed
    and debated. Lord knows as a News Junkie I immerse myself in current events.
    But while they should be discussed, not here. Look, I know some of you are on
    the left. And I know some of you are on the right. And I also know that here,
    in this space, those differences do not matter. Here, in this space, we talk
    about Old-Time Radio, within its own context.

       I do not want the Digest subscribers being divided, since there are PLENTY
    of other places on the Net to discuss and even argue these topics. Here we
    should safely discuss OTR insulated from the concerns of today. It isn't that
    we ignore the problems of the past, we simply keep them rooted in that past.

       Specifically about Amos n Andy, I wish Elizabeth McLeod were still
    posting, since she has researched this subject and could speak to it
    authoritatively. But since she isn't, I will borrow the philosophy of Jay
    Hickerson. Once, at an FOTR committee meeting, an Amos n Andy recreation was
    suggested. After [removed] discussion, Jay weighed in with what I have
    always thought was the most intelligent solution available. Why, he asked,
    with so many other programs to choose from, would we want to dive into this
    controversy?

             Charlie

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