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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2019 : Issue 50
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      dead link                             [ Jody Davis <baroygis@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 10-16 Nov  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 17-23 Nov  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      interviews and radio special          [ "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@yeste ]
      This week in radio history 24-30 Nov  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:32:38 -0500
    From: Jody Davis <baroygis@[removed];
    To: OldTime Radio <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  dead link

    It looks as if that great font of OTR info, Digital Deli Too
    ([removed]), is dead. I've been receiving error messages for the
    last two weeks when I try to access it. Anyone have any definitive news on it?

    Jody Davis
    Radio Host
    Board Member - Community Broadband Radio Assn
    Retired Investigative Reporter & Anchor

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    Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:32:44 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 10-16 November

     From Those Were The Days --

    11/10

    1950   Monty Woolley starred as The Magnificent Montague, which debuted
    on NBC.

    11/12

    1932   The National Broadcasting Company opened its new studios at Radio
    City in New York City. They celebrated with a gala program at Radio City
    Music Hall.

    1938   Kate Smith sang God Bless America for the very first time. It
    would later become her signature song. Irving Berlin penned the tune in
    1917 but never released it until Miss Smith sang it for the first time
    on her radio broadcast.

    1940   The chant, "invovo legem magicarum," was heard for the first time
    when Mandrake the Magician debuted on WOR in New York City.

    11/14

    1921   KYW radio, Chicago, IL broadcast the first opera by a
    professional company. Listeners heard Samson Et Dalila as it was being
    performed at the Chicago Auditorium.

     From Today in History at the NY Times -

    1922 -  the British Broadcasting Corp. began its domestic radio service.

    11/15

    1926   Network radio was born. Twenty four stations carried the first
    broadcast from the National Broadcasting Company. The program was a gala
    four and a half hour broadcast from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New
    York City.

    Joe

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    Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:33:00 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 17-23 November

     From Those Were The Days

    11/18

    1307   The story of William Tell shooting the apple off of his young
    son's noggin is said to have taken place on this day.

    (If it hadn't been for Tell there would have been no opera, if there had
    been no opera there would have been no overture, if there had been no
    overture the Lone Ranger wouldn't have had the theme music we know.
    that's a joke son, I say that's a joke.  -ed)

    11/20

    1929 - The first broadcast of The Rise of the Goldbergs, with Gertrude
    Berg as Molly, was heard on the NBC Blue network. Later, the title would
    be shortened to The Goldbergs. Mrs. Berg, incidentally, wrote the first
    scripts for the 15-minute program and starred in the show -- for $75 a
    week. ($1,113 in 2018 dollars). The program continued until 1945 (it
    returned for one season in 1949-1950). Gertrude Berg entertained
    audiences with New York style, motherly phrases like, "Button up your
    neck. It's cold outside."

    11/21

    1938   WBOE in Cleveland, OH became the first school operated radio
    station (owned by a municipality) to receive a license from the FCC.
    WBOE went on the air as a 500 watt AM station and later became an FM
    station.

    1938   The first broadcast of Central City was heard. It was an
    adventure mystery show set at the newspaper in, you guessed it, Central
    City. Elspeth Eric played the part of crime reporter Emily Olson; and
    Van Heflin was crime reporter Bob Shellenberger (later, the part was
    played by Myron McCormick). Central City aired until 1941.

    1944   "Happy trails to you, until we meet [removed]" The Roy Rogers
    Show was first heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Singing along
    with Roy (The King of the Cowboys'), were the Whippoorwills and The Sons
    of the Pioneers.

    11/22

    1906   Delegates attending the Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference in
    Germany voted to use SOS (...   ...) as the letters for the new
    international signal. The international use of "SOS" was ratified in
    1908. Its meaning? No, not "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" as many
    believe. Its only meaning was as a distress signal, quick to transmit by
    Morse code and not easily misread. It is not an acronym. Incidentally,
    how did SOS pads come to use the same initials? They're named after a
    patented process, Soap on Steel.

    11/23

    1929   Shirley Booth and Ed Gardner were married on this day. Miss Booth
    was famous for her television acting role ("Hazel"); but we remember
    when she and her husband played Miss Duffy and Archie on Duffy's Tavern.

    1958   One of the last drama programs on radio debuted. It was unusual
    in that it followed the TV show of the same name. Have Gun Will Travel
    was broadcast on CBS and starred John Dehner as Paladin.

    Joe

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    Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:51:31 -0500
    From: "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  interviews and radio special
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    Hi Everybody,

    John, and Larry Gassman  and yours truly are trying to back up radio history
    for future Generation.  If you have any interviews, radio special or air
    checks of special broadcast.  Please contact us?  We are trying to make sure
    as many of these audio files will be pass down to the future.    Thank you
    for any help,

    Walden

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    [ADMINISTRIVIA: This is interesting, and IMHO one of the WORST way to, "back
    up radio history." I'm not saying you shouldn't provide information to my
    friend Walden and the Gassman brothers (lord, I miss their puns!). But if you
    are TRULY interested in making sure radio history is preserved, give copies
    to everyone you know interested in Old-Time Radio.

    True preservation isn't allowing a single entity to have (and control!) the
    [removed]'s having hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people
    holding and sharing copies! We have most of what we have now because in the
    60's to the 80's, collectors shared and bought reels and cassettes of
    programs, mailing them across the world to each other in what was then the
    most efficient method of sharing. Now, it's even [removed] cannot tell you
    how many times I've emailed links to requested programs; a dashed email and
    done. And I'm hardly [removed] people have shared freely of their
    collections to me, too. For many items of general interest, both audio and
    video, I set up the OTR Digest shared folder, where any Digest subscriber
    can, with a free pCloud account, access anything I share [removed] I share
    a lot. Want to watch The Night that Panicked America? It's there, along with
    episodes of The Eternal Light, Bob Edwards programs dealing with old radio, a
    big ZIP file of radio news [removed] I'll cheerfully add more of
    anything you folks are interested in having there. And feel free to download
    your own copies of anything or everything that's there, and give copies to
    your friends, [removed]

    So yeah, send any interviews, radio specials, or air checks to Walden and the
    Gassman brothers. But send them to all your friends, [removed] them to me
    for inclusion in the OTR Digest shared [removed] them all [removed]
    the more people that have copies, the less likely any of this material will
    be lost.  --cfs3]

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    Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:49:42 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 24-30 November

     From Those Were The Days

    11/24

    1937   Music from the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, Massachusetts was
    beamed coast to coast on NBC. The special guests during this broadcast
    were Glenn Miller and his orchestra.

    11/25

    1920   The first play by play coverage of a football game was broadcast
    by WTAW in College Station, TX. Texas University beat the Aggies of
    Texas A&M, 7 3.

    1944   CBS presented The FBI in Peace and War for the first time. It
    became one of the longest running crime shows on radio    lasting 14 years.

    1945   A spoof of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, [removed] Pinafore, was
    broadcast on The Fred Allen Show. The spoof was titled, The Brooklyn
    Pinafore. Joining actress Shirley Booth in the skit was baseball great
    Leo 'The Lip' Durocher.

    1960   Radio actors were put out of work when CBS axed five serials
    (soap operas) from the airwaves. We said so long to The Second Mrs.
    Burton (after 14 years), Young Doctor Malone, Whispering Streets (after
    8 years), Right to Happiness (after 21 years) and Ma Perkins (after 27
    wonderful years.) In 1940, the high point for these radio programs,
    there were as many as 45 on the air each day.

    11/26

    1945 - "Bride and Groom" debuted on the ABC network. It is estimated
    that 1,000 newly-wed couples were interviewed on the program before it
    left the airwaves in 1950.

    11/27

    1930   Broadcasting from "...the little theatre off Times Square,"
    according to the show's introduction, The First Nighter was first heard.
    The program, which actually originated from Chicago, then from
    Hollywood, aired for 23 years and featured dramas and comedies.

    11/28

    1932   Groucho Marx performed on radio for the first time.

    11/29

    1950   "I Fly Anything", starring singer Dick Haymes in the role of
    cargo pilot Dockery Crane, premiered on ABC. With a title like that, is
    it any wonder the show only lasted one season? Haymes went back to
    singing and did very well, thank you.

    11/30

    1940   Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married.

    Joe

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