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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2017 : Issue 16
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This Week in Radio History            [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
  Jean Rouverol Butler (1916-2017)      [ "Tom Rose" <TomR5@[removed]; ]

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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:48:44 -0400
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  This Week in Radio History

Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:30:48 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];

3/22

1948   The Voice of Firestone was one of the first commercial radio
programs to be carried simultaneously on both AM and FM radio stations.

I remember it on television in the early-mid 1950s, and also on AM and
FM.   I found it on two different radio stations while it was on TV, and
I eventually figured out that this was because one station was the
affiliate of the network that carried Firestone, and the other station
had an FM signal as well.

3/23

1940   Truth or Consequences was first heard on radio. Ralph Edwards
produced and hosted the [removed] The show was originally heard on only
four CBS stations. Later, NBC picked up the show where it eventually
became the most popular of all radio quiz shows.

I realize it's not your fault, it's the reference you're using, but as
I've said before around here, Truth or Consequences was NOT a quiz
show.  It was an audience-participation stunt show, much like People are
Funny.

But they did pretend to be a quiz show.  They started out with a
"contestant," who was asked a question and told that if s/he answered
the question correctly, s/he would win a prize.  And if not, they would
have to pay the consequences.  But the question was usually a riddle,
with an answer not easy to guess.  Examples of "quiz" questions on the
show were "What is a paradox?  Two doctors."  "What do an elephant and a
clam have in common?  Neither can ride a bicycle."  "What does a man
preparing his income taxes have in common with a woman preparing to go
to the beach?  They both take off as much as the law will allow."

I once saw a contestant answer the question correctly, whereupon Bob
Barker, then the host, said he'd gotten a signal from the control booth
that he had asked the wrong question and proceeded to ask another, which
the contestant couldn't answer.

The consequence was usually some sort of stunt, often with a component
that the contestant wasn't told about.  The audience was usually let in
on the secret before the contestant came out, with a confident
assumption that the contestant wouldn't answer the question correctly
and would therefore have to pay the consequences.

While Ralph Edwards continued to own and produce the show, he was
eventually succeeded as host by Jack Bailey, who also hosted Queen for a
Day.  By that time the show was also on television.  In the mid-1950s,
when ToC reappeared as a weekday morning show on TV, Ralph Edwards
introduced the first show, said that Jack Bailey was now too busy
crowning queens, and introduced the new host, Bob Barker. whom Edwards
had heard on his car radio one day and liked. Barker continued to host
the show as a weekday daytime show, while eventually a new prime time
version was launched, with other hosts.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed] | 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 | Newton, MA 02459
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:49:15 -0400
From: "Tom Rose" <TomR5@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Jean Rouverol Butler (1916-2017)
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I sadly announce the passing of Jean Rouverol Butler.  Many attendees to the
Newark Conventions will know her as an active participant and partner of
Cliff Carpenter.  She  appeared on One Man's Family until 1951.  We will
miss her smile terribly,

Tom  Rose

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