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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2019 : Issue 5
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 20-26 Jan  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:24:37 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 20-26 January

     From Those Were The Days -

    1/20

    1954   The National Negro Network was formed on this date. Some 40 radio
    stations were charter members of the network.

    1/21

    1927   The first opera to be broadcast over a national radio network was
    presented in Chicago, IL. Listeners heard selections from Faust.

    1946   The Fat Man debuted on ABC. J. Scott Smart, who played the portly
    detective, weighed in at 270 pounds in real life.

    1/22

    1956   Raymond Burr starred as Captain Lee Quince in the Fort Laramie
    debut on CBS. The program was said to be in "the Gunsmoke tradition."

    1/23

    1937   In an article published in Literary Digest, Edgar Bergen
    mentioned that he made his dummy pal, Charlie McCarthy, the beneficiary
    of a $10,000 trust fund ($173,640 in 2017 dollars) to keep him in
    serviceable condition and repair.

    1/24

    1930   Ben Bernie (Benjamin Anzelwitz) began a weekly remote broadcast
    from the lovely Roosevelt Hotel in NYC.

    1942 - Abie's Irish Rose was first heard on NBC this day replacing
    Knickerbocker Playhouse. The program was based on the smash play from
    Broadway that ran for nearly 2,000 performances. Sydney Smith played the
    part of Abie. Rosemary Murphy was played by Betty Winkler.

    1/25

    1937   NBC presented the first broadcast of The Guiding Light.

    1944   The character, a black maid named Beulah and played by a white
    man, Marlin Hurt, aired for the first time on Fibber McGee and Molly.
    The spinoff, Beulah, became a radio series in 1945.

    1/26

    1947   The Greatest Story Ever Told was first heard on ABC.

    Joe

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