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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 115
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 21-27 Jun  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Can you spare 15 minutes?             [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:17:40 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 21-27 June

     From Those Were The Days -

    6/23

    1933   The Pepper Pot program welcomed a new host. Don McNeill took over
    the show and renamed it The Breakfast Club. The show, a huge success for
    the NBC Blue and later, ABC, became one of the longest running radio
    programs in history. The show aired with McNeill as host until December
    27, 1968. The Breakfast Club was a morning show that had its share of
    corny jokes, visiting celebrities and lots of audience participation.

    1941   Front Page Farrell was heard for the first time on Mutual. In
    1942, the program moved to NBC and stayed on the air until 1954. Sally
    and David Farrell were the central characters.

    1947   Wendy Warren and the News debuted on CBS. The broadcasts
    continued until 1958. No, the program was not a newscast, in the
    traditional sense. It was a serial    one of many of the time. The
    unique thing about this particular show, however, was that Wendy Warren
    and the News did utilize a real three minute newscast to open the show.
    The newscaster, delivering the news as part of the show, chose not to
    stay in the entertainment side of radio, but continued to be a true
    journalist and a legend at CBS. That newsman was Douglas Edwards.

    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 the CBS.

    6/25

    1942   The first broadcast of It Pays to Be Ignorant was aired on WOR
    and the Mutual Broadcasting System.

    6/26

    1933   The Kraft Music Hall debuted.

    1949   Fred Allen had his final program, though he continued for several
    years to guest on other shows.

    6/27

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

    1943   The Dreft Star Playhouse debuted on NBC. Jane Wyman (the former
    Mrs. Ronald Reagan) 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.

    Joe

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    Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:01:22 -0400
    From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Can you spare 15 minutes?

>     I'm on an OTR educational mission. I'm trying to discover as many shows as
>     possible that were 15 minutes in length.
>     Jody Davis

    Superman, Captain Midnight, Little Orphan Annie, Jack Armstrong,
    Terry and the Pirates just to name a few.

    Fred
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