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Date: 3/19/2019 4:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2019 : Issue 13
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 10-16 Mar  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 17-23 Mar  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Remember This Series?                 [ STEPHEN JANSEN <ilamfan@[removed] ]
      Tune into Yesterday - Issue 86        [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 20:07:00 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 10-16 March

     From Those Were The Days

    3/10

    1922   Variety magazine greeted readers with the front page headline
    that read, "Radio Sweeping Country -- 1,000,000 Sets in Use."

    1955   The last broadcast of The Silver Eagle was heard.

    3/12

    1933   Eight days after he was inaugurated, [removed] President Franklin
    Delano Roosevelt presented his first presidential address to the nation.
    It was the first of what were called Roosevelt's famous Fireside Chats.
    The name, incidentally, was coined by newsman, Robert Trout. He thought
    that the President sounded as if he was sitting with us in living rooms
    all over the nation next to a roaring fire, just telling it like it was.

    3/13

    1923   A great improvement in radio receivers was advertised. The new
    models had a concealed speaker and eliminated the need for headphones,
    which were considered a nuisance because they were so heavy to wear and
    messed up hairdos. The new radios were also said to have a 'foolproof'
    design.

    3/14

    1937   Fred Allen and Jack Benny met in one of the biggest publicity
    gags ever. It was called, "The Battle of the Century."  The two
    comedians locked horns in the ballroom of the Hotel Pierre, exchanging
    torrid insults that were heard by the second largest audience in the
    history of radio.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 20:07:09 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 17-23 March

     From Those Were The Days

    3/17

    1933   Comedian Phil Baker was heard on network radio for the first time
    on a regular basis when The Armour Jester was heard on the Blue network.
    Baker rapidly rose to the top of the radio ratings.

    3/18

    1940   Light of the World was first heard on NBC. The soap opera was
    unique in that it featured the Bible as the center of the story line.

    3/21

    1924   The voice of Lowell Thomas was first heard on radio. Thomas was
    heard talking about "Man's first flight around the world", on KDKA in
    Pittsburgh, PA.

    3/23

    1940   Truth or Consequences was first heard on radio. Ralph Edwards
    produced and hosted the [removed] The show was originally heard on only
    four CBS stations. Later, NBC picked up the show where it eventually
    became the most popular of all radio audience-participation stunt shows.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 20:07:17 -0400
    From: STEPHEN JANSEN <ilamfan@[removed];
    To: OTR Bulletin Board <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Remember This Series?
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    Does anyone recall our discussion here (from maybe 10 years ago, or so) about
    an OTR series that presented mysteries or detective shows and left them
    unsolved?  Then, listeners could send in their solutions based on the clues
    in the show, and the best one or the correct one won a prize or got announced?

    The actual transcription recordings had no record of the solutions, but if I
    remember correctly, someone here had a list of their own answers to the shows
    (maybe sourced from a radio magazine or otr fanzine or some such?

    This just popped into my head today, and now it's REALLY bothering me that I
    can't remember the series!

    So thanks to any who can help me scratch this itch - and if you have a copy
    of those solutions to go along with the series name, that would be great,
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    Thanks!

    Stephen

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    Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 21:42:37 -0400
    From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
    To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Tune into Yesterday - Issue 86

    Hi
    Issue 86, the Spring edition, of ORCA's Tune into Yesterday magazine is now
    available. Its our usual mixture of news from the radio archives and pages
    from radio history. The main article this issue is by Paul Simpson about the
    making of the recent BBC radio drama 'The haunting of M R James'. I know that
    many of our readers enjoy a good ghost story on the radio ! A sample copy is
    free in the UK from our membership secretary John Wolstenholme: ORCA, PO Box
    1922, Dronfield, S18  8XA Annual membership in the UK is 15  pounds which
    brings you 4 issues of TIY plus access to our vast lending library of old
    programmes. Cheers ! Graeme

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