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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2013 : Issue 116
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Thank you for a wonderful 30 plus ye  [ "Steven Kelez" <skelez@[removed]; ]
  Peter Bogdanovich                     [ booksteve@[removed] ]
  Percentage of US households with rad  [ BoB M <r_j_mort@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 3-9 Novem  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Percentage of US households with rad  [ "celticone22-radiodigest@[removed]" ]
  War of the Worlds - Peter Bogdonovic  [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
  Population with radios                [ Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed]; ]
  [removed] homes with radios                [ Jim Hilliker <jimhilliker@sbcglobal ]
  Bogdanovich and Welles                [ Michael Berger <[removed]@yaho ]
  Re: Peter Bogdanovich and WOTW        [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]
  War of Worlds fallout                 [ Mary Poehler <MoCelt@[removed]; ]
  More WotW Stuff                       [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]

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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:08:33 -0400
From: "Steven Kelez" <skelez@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Thank you for a wonderful 30 plus years
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I recently folded up the Radio Showcase tent after 30 great years serving
this hobby. Over this time, I have accumulated a large collection of
recordings, Books, magazines, fanzines, catalogs, and misc. recording
equipment. The problem now is continuing to house everything. Therefore, I
have decided to slowly sell off what I can. I have over 7000 master
cassettes and 3400 CDs I used in the business. If anyone would like to make
a reasonable offer for either group of recordings please contact me off
list. I also have a number of excellent condition industrial cassette
duplicators, though these days cassettes are not very viable. In addition,
if you need blank cassettes I have 110 blank music grade cassettes and
Norelco style cases going real cheap. Of the books I have, the crown jewel
is a limited edition of "From Out of the Past - a Pictorial History of the
Lone Ranger." It is number 66 of 250 and signed by Dave Holland. Again, if
interested make an offer. I plan to slowly go through the collection listing
the items, and if you have an interest in such things send me an email and
I'll forward a sales list from time to time.

The Web site, [removed], is still active, though you cannot
order anything. I have left it in place for the time being as a resource for
existing recordings, and I may do something else with it in the future.

In addition, I would like to send out a very big thank you to all my past
customers and friends that this wonderful hobby afforded me. Old time radio
will live forever no matter what method of delivery comes next.

Steven Kelez

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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:09:37 -0400
From: booksteve@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Peter Bogdanovich
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Regarding the question of the involvement of Peter Bogdanovich in the War of
the Worlds documentary, I'm certain it's because of his personal history as a
confidante and biographer of Welles.

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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:10:17 -0400
From: BoB M <r_j_mort@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Percentage of US households with radios in 1938
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As this chart shows:

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Radio penetration went from 50% in 1935 to 80% in 1940, so a reasonable extrapolation for late 1938 would be in the 75% area.

The chart is an interesting display of the rise and fall of telecommunication products since 1920.

Bob Mortimer

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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:10:23 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 3-9 November

 From Those Were The Days -

11/5

1934   The first broadcast of The Gumps was heard on CBS. Wilmer Walter
played Andy Gump, Agnes Moorehead was Gump's wife, Min, and Jackie Kelk
was son, Chester. Karo syrup and Pebico toothpaste/tooth powder sponsored.

1950   "The greatest stars of our time on one big program" was the
introduction by actress Tallulah Bankhead, who opened the 90 minute Big
Show on NBC. It was a big show all right. The peacock saw red as losses
exceeded a million dollars ($9,409,492,629 in 2012 dollars) in the three
years the program was on the air.

11/7

1932   CBS presented the first broadcast of Buck Rogers in the 25th
Century. Matt Crowley, Curtis Arnall, Carl Frank and John Larkin played
Buck in the serial over the years (1932 1947).

1937   Dr. Christian debuted on CBS. Jean Hersholt played the part of
the kindly, elderly Dr. Christian who practiced on the air until 1954.
Laureen Tuttle, Kathleen Fitz, Helen Kleeb and Rosemary De Camp played
his nurse, Judy. The Dr. Christian theme song was Rainbow on the River.
Sponsors of the show included Vaseline (petroleum jelly, hair tonic and
lip ice).

1938   The first broadcast of This Day is Ours was heard on CBS. Eleanor
McDonald, played by Joan Banks and later by Templeton Fox, had all kinds
of problems. Her child was kidnapped, she lost her memory, helped a
friend find a killer, etc. The soap opera ran for two years.

11/9

1948   This is Your Life debuted on NBC. Ralph Edwards hosted the radio
show for two years before it moved to television.

Joe

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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:10:44 -0400
From: "celticone22-radiodigest@[removed]" <celticone22-radiodigest@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Percentage of US households with radios in 1938

Don Holshuh asked:

Does anyone have figures on how many US households had radios in 1938
or other years for that matter?

The link below takes you to the website "Radio History: 1937".   There Donna
L Halper, Assistant Professor of Communication at Lesley University,
Cambridge, MA, states "It was estimated that over 80% of the population had
at least one radio, and millions now had radios in their [removed]"

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Anne Walker

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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:10:57 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  War of the Worlds - Peter Bogdonovich

Joe Salerno asked:

"Another thing I wondered about in the PBS program - Peter Bogdanovich.
What was his connection to the event?"

Peter Bogdonovich having been a film director and critic made Orson
Welles his life's interest and has been for a long time, an expert on
Welles' life especially as a director and entertainer.  Besides books on
legendary directors he also co-wrote a bio book (with Orson Welles) on
the director's life in film and entertainment called "This Is Orson Welles."

Jim Widner

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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:11:14 -0400
From: Jim Widner <jwidner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Population with radios

Don Holshuh wondered:

"Does anyone have figures on how many US households had radios in 1938
or other years for that matter? "

According to Hadley Cantril's book on the impact of War of the Worlds
when it was published in 1940 (presumably written in 1939-50), he says:
"It is estimated that of the 32,000,000 families in the United States
27,500,000 have [removed]"  So I would say you have your percentage
backwards and 20% do NOT have radios versus the 80% who do.

Jim Widner

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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:11:23 -0400
From: Jim Hilliker <jimhilliker@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  [removed] homes with radios
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Hi.  In reply to Don A. Holshuh's request for some data on the number or
percentage of [removed] homes with radios, I've found some reliable sources and
others where I can't tell where they got their statistics.  I have a copy of
the 1938 Radio Annual, from their "Facts and Figures" page. It stated that as
of the beginning of 1938, "out of 31,500,000 [removed] families, more than
25,000,000 have radio sets."  That comes out to [removed] percent of [removed] families,
but I don't know if that means the same as households.   The 1938 Radio Annual
also said that of the 25 million American families at least one radio set in
the home, 4,500,000 had two or three radio sets in the home.  Plus, there were
5 million radios in automobiles in 1938.  In addition, the average radio was
in use 4 hours each day, and that on average, radio sets were replaced every 3
years.   (The 1938 Radio Annual also said there 723 radio stations in the
United States then, with NBC having 143
 affiliates, CBS with 115 stations and Mutual with 76.)

Another website
listed some stats from the Radio Advertising Bureau, and all they had was 39%
of homes with radio in 1930 and 73% of [removed] homes had radio in 1940.

From
the March 1928 publication "Radio Retailing", January of 1924 showed that
about [removed] of [removed] homes had a radio set; [removed] in January of 1925; 18% in
January of 1926; [removed] in January of 1927 and [removed] in January of 1928.
Author Susan [removed] in her book "Listening-In-Radio and the Amrrican
Imagination" on page 128 said that by 1933, [removed] of [removed] households had at
least one radio.  But, the 1938 figures I've found indicate less than 80% of
homes had radios, more like 70%.  I'd like to see figures on how may homes in
the [removed] had radios during World War II to 1950 or so.

Jim Hilliker
Monterey,
CA

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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:11:52 -0400
From: Michael Berger <[removed]@[removed];
To: otr <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Bogdanovich and Welles

The film director Peter Bogdanovich was an admirer of Welles and wrote a
fascinating book, This Is Orson Welles, about his career.
Welles, though a marvelous story teller and favored talk show guest, was
notoriously unreliable in recalling his own 'history' - including the War of
the Worlds story.
The interview excerpts of Welles on the BBC podcast about WofW gave a
dramatic but factually unsupported version of events during and after the
1938 broadcast.
Perhaps he borrowed from reports in the next day's NY Times, which wrote of
'thousands' of phone calls and 'hundreds' of panic-stricken NYC residents,
with no supporting facts save a few quotes from individuals.
Another aspect of that program that I failed to note in my earlier post was
that the print media reaction to the show was dictated in part by its
competitive emotions regarding the rising role of radio in news reporting in
the late 1930s. - Michael Berger

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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:13:15 -0400
From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Peter Bogdanovich and WOTW

On 11/2/2013 joe salerno wrote:
Another thing I wondered about in the PBS program - Peter Bogdanovich. What
was his connection to the event? The manner in which he was presented seemed
to indicate that he had some knowledge or connection to the event or the
people. Yet I see from a wiki article that he was not born until a year after
the broadcast took place. Anything he reports is not first hand experience. So
why him? Why not someone who lived thru the event?

Peter Bogdanovich was a close personal friend of Orson Welles. Welles 
stayed at the Bogdanovich home whenever he was in LA. Bogdanovich made 
at least two significant films based on Welles' filming methods--great 
depth of field, black and white, etc., all contrary to Hollywood.

There is no question that in the many evenings Welles must have spent 
with Bogdanovich that WOTW would be discussed in detail.

Don Shenbarger

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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:13:25 -0400
From: Mary Poehler <MoCelt@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  War of Worlds fallout

Toward the end of his life, Orson Wells was befriended by  Peter Bogdanovich
and I believe even lived in a guest house on his property.

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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:17:24 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  More WotW Stuff

Folks;

   Am slowly gathering up some other media material relating to Welles' The
War of the Worlds broadcast; I've slightly reorganized the shared Copy folder
gathering it together into a "War of the Worlds Material" folder, and will
continue to add stuff as I receive them. If you don't currently have access
to the folder, just drop a note to me with your Copy account email address
and I'll get you added. If you need info on a free Copy account, let me know.

         Charlie

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