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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2018 : Issue 39
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 24-30 Jun  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 1-7 July   [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 7-14 July  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 14:53:33 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 24-30 June

     From Those Were The Days

    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.

    6/28

    1940   As a summer replacement for blind piano virtuoso Alec Templeton,
    Quiz Kids was first heard. The show continued on NBC until 1953.

    6/29

    1932   Vic and Sade debuted on the NBC Blue network this day.

    1947   Radio's show with a heart made its debut. Strike It Rich became a
    favorite on CBS. Todd Russell was the original host. Warren Hull took
    over a few years later.

    1951   Bill Stern did his last 15 minute program of sports features for
    NBC. Stern had been with NBC for 14 years. He later moved to the Mutual
    Broadcasting System to finish out an illustrious sportscasting career.

    6/30

    1921   Documents were signed forming the Radio Corporation of America,
    better known as RCA. RCA soon rivaled its main competitor, General
    Electric (GE).

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 14:53:39 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 1-7 July

     From Those Were The Days

    7/1

    1934   The Federal Communications Commission, as mandated in the
    Communications Act of 1934, replaced the Federal Radio Commission as the
    regulator of broadcasting in the United States.

    7/2

    1939   The Aldrich Family debuted on NBC.

    1946   CBS signed Arthur Godfrey to do a weekly nighttime show.

    1951   NBC presented Bob and Ray (Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding) on a
    network show.

    7/3

    1939   Chic Young's comic strip character, Blondie was first heard on CBS.

    1940   The legendary comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello debuted
    with their network show on NBC.

    1945    NBC gave the comedian/pianist Victor Borge his own the summer
    replacement show for Fibber McGee and Molly.  He had been heard a few
    years earlier as a semi regular on NBC's "Kraft Music Hall" with Bing
    Crosby.

    7/4

    1943   The Rhythm Boys, Bing Crosby, Al Rinker and Harry Barris, were
    reunited for the first time since the 1930s on Paul Whiteman Presents on
    NBC.

    1951   Jack Webb, along with Dragnet, also did a summer show    that of
    Pete Kelly. Pete Kelly's Blues, a crime drama, was the summer
    replacement on NBC for Halls of Ivy (with Ronald Colman and Benita Hume).

    7/5

    1943   The Adventures of Nero Wolfe debuted on the NBC Blue network.
    Nero Wolfe was "the detective genius who rates the knife and fork the
    greatest tools ever invented by man." The 'gargantuan gourmet' continued
    on the air until 1951.

    1948   My Favorite Husband, with Lucille Ball, became the gifted
    redhead's first regular radio program on CBS.  Richard Denning co
    starred with Lucy as "two people who live together and like it."  (Which
    today has a different [removed] -ed)

    1951   The Silver Eagle debuted on ABC as a entry into radio's action
    adventure lineup. Jim Ameche starred as Jim West.

    7/6

    1943   Judy Canova, the 'Queen of the Hillbillies', began a weekly
    comedy show on CBS.

    1947   A hidden microphone eavesdropped on unsuspecting people for the
    first time this night, as Candid Microphone hit the ABC airwaves.

    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.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 14:53:46 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 7-14 July

     From Those Were The Days

    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.

    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.

       Joe

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