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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2019 : Issue 39
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 7-13 July  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 14-20 Jul  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:24:54 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 7-13 July

 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.

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.

Joe

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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:25:04 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 14-20 July

 From Those Were The Days

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.

7/16

1934   NBC Red network premiered the musical drama, Dreams Come True. It
was a show about baritone singer Barry McKinley and his novelist
sweetheart.

7/18

1936   The critically acclaimed, experimental theatre of the air, The
Columbia Workshop, debuted on CBS.

7/19

1942   The Seventh Symphony, by Shastakovich, was performed for the
first time in the United States by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony
Orchestra.

1948    Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden and Gale Gordon, debuted on
CBS this day.

7/20

1935   NBC debuted G men. The show was later renamed Gang Busters.

Joe

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