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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 219
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 29 July t  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  FOTR Convention                       [ JayHick@[removed] ]
  Radio SHows outlasting TV             [ "[removed]" <asajb2000@ ]
  Land in the Yukon                     [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  puff wheat and rice deeds             [ "rita powell" <crisco1950@[removed] ]
  50% off some BearManor Media books t  [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:55:12 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 29 July to 4 August

 From Those Were The Days

7/30

1937 - The American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA) was organized. It
was part of the American Federation of Labor. The union was for all
radio performers except musicians. The union later became The American
Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) to include TV folk,
as well.

1942 - Stage Door Canteen was first heard on CBS. The show was broadcast
from New York City and 500 servicemen were entertained each week by
celebrities who freely donated their time for the war effort.

7/31

1933 -- Listeners turned up the radio on this day to hear the announcer
introduce "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy!" The show continued
until 1951.

8/4

1921 - The first tennis match on radio was broadcast on KDKA in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This was a natural since KDKA was the first
commercial radio station in the United States. Within eight months the
powers that be figured out that sports on radio would bring in big sales
revenues. And so, the Davis Cup match between Great Britain and
Australia was aired on the radio; but much to the wonderment of KDKA's
listeners. Tennis anyone? On radio? It rates right up there with radio
wrestling or, maybe, [removed]

1927 - Station 2XAG, later named WGY, the General Electric station in
Schenectady, NY, began experimental operations from a 100,000-watt
transmitter. Later, the FCC regulated the power of AM radio stations to
not exceed 50,000 watts on 'clear channels' (where few, if any, stations
would cause interference with each other).

1940 - Crime Doctor introduced a new kind of radio hero to audiences.
The CBS program presented Dr. Benjamin Ordway, the shows main character,
who was a victim of amnesia. He once was a criminal, but got hit on the
head, and suddenly began to work as a crime fighter. Nice twist.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:57:38 -0400
From: JayHick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  FOTR Convention
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All details of our 2007 convention are now on our web site thanks to Charlie
Summers < [removed] >

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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:01:03 -0400
From: "[removed]" <asajb2000@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio SHows outlasting TV
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I think a lot of the early TV shows didn't last long because production
values were of their time and when the show came on, it obviously lacked
something compared to radio, where you created the picture in your mind.  I
think a few others (haven't checked my records) but Lights Out, Whistler and
others that were featured on TV were short-lived when compared to their radio
counterparts.   Also, radio was much cheaper to produce and air and few TV
shows were run "sustained".  Also, there was  a much bigger financial burden,
so if I show didn't catch on, basically the original order for 26, 22 or 13
episodes was all that it had.  Nowadays, the TV shows have a much shorter
leash and only a few episodes will be ordered.  If the show is picked up,
having to go back into production for the rest usually means the cost per
show goes up.  Time is money is the old adage and also quantity discounts
apply.  The more you do at one time, the cheaper each episode is; however in
the past
 networks have been stuck with unaired episodes of cancelled shows, which
they "burned off" during the summer.
I think much contemporary TV is not worth watching and so I have basically
stayed away with some exceptions.  I remember Fox, in the late 1980's, tried
to interest viewers in a TV version of Ferris Bueller and the Times today
mentions (in advance of the big-screen Steve Carell "Get Smart") that Fox
aired a remake of Get Smart with Don Adams in 1995.  Nowadays I try to watch
the ones that seem like they won't make it, just so I can say I did.  AB

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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:45:53 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Land in the Yukon

Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:01:56 -0400
From: Matthew561@[removed]

I have lots of those deeds and never intend to eat Puffed Wheat again.
However, the deeds were issued by a Holding Company that held the
master deed and they stopped paying it's taxes decades ago.

I still buy Puffed Wheat now and then, but it seems to me that even
at the age of 9 or 10, when they did that promotion, I don't think I
really believed that they were giving away land in the Yukon.  I
didn't understand land titles or real estate taxes at that time, but
I think I was quite sure it was some sort of pretend thing.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
 92 State Street	                                  Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02109           	         [removed]

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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:21:42 -0400
From: "rita powell" <crisco1950@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  puff wheat and rice deeds

i had abou a foot of land there also i also had about 6 inches of land
somewhere else from popsrite popcorn maybe we are land barrons the old coot
pawpaw

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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:22:02 -0400
From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  50% off some BearManor Media books this weekend

Hi, all. Take a look at [removed]
and click on the link at the very top to check out
what's 50% this weekend!

Ben Ohmart
Radio, TV, film books
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