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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2015 : Issue 57
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 5-11 July  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 21:57:35 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 5-11 July

 From Those Were The Days

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.

 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.

Joe

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