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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2020 : Issue 25
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 23-29 Aug [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
KNX celebrate there birthday [ "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@yeste ]
This week in radio history 30 August [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
New Server [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:50:28 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: This week in radio history 23-29 August
From Those Were The Days
8/24
1950 - The summer replacement radio show for "Suspense", titled
"Somebody Knows", was heard for the final time on radio. The program
offered a reward of $5,000 ($53,860 in 2010 dollars) for information
that led to the solving of crimes. "Somebody Knows" began with the
introduction, "You out there. You, who think you have committed the
perfect crime -- that there are no clues, no witnesses -- listen.
Somebody knows."
8/25
1949 NBC debuted Father Knows Best. The Thursday night program aired
for five years. Robert Young played the role of Jim Anderson, the ever
patient father. The rest of the family included wife Margaret, son Bud
and lovely daughters Betty (the eldest) and Kathy. The family lived on
Maple Street in Springfield.
8/26
1939 Arch Oboler's Plays presented the NBC Symphony, for the first
time, as the musical backdrop for the drama, This Lonely Heart.
8/28
1922 The first paid commercial to be broadcast on radio was heard on
WEAF in New York City. Announcer [removed] Blackwell spoke about Hawthorne
Court, a group of apartment buildings in Queens, New York. The
Queensboro Realty Company, of Jackson Heights, bought what was called
Toll Broadcasting. WEAF, owned by AT&T, sold their block programming,
five one minute programs, one a day for five days, for $50 ($775 in 2019
dollars) plus long distance toll fees. The Queensboro Realty Company
paid $100 ($1550 in 2019 *) for 10 minutes of commercial airtime.
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1938 The first degree given to a ventriloquist's dummy is awarded to
Charlie McCarthy Edgar Bergen's wooden partner. The honorary degree,
"Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback", is presented on radio by Ralph
Dennis, the dean of the School of Speech at Northwestern University.
Joe
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:54:51 -0400
From: "Walden Hughes" <waldenhughes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: KNX celebrate there birthday
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Hi Everybody,
I am helping to provide audio to KNX Radio in order for them to produce a
series on there radio history. They want to celebrate there 100 birthday.
If you have any audio from the past up to 2019. Please contact me off list.
Take care,
Walden Hughes
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 08:27:05 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 30 August to 5 September
From Those Were The Days
8/30
1951 Screen Directors' Playhouse was heard for the final time on NBC.
The program had featured some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
8/31
1941 The Great Gildersleeve, a spin off of Fibber McGee and Molly,
started on NBC.
1942 "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ... the caped crusader
returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Superman had been
dropped from the program schedule earlier in the year, but the outrage
of youngsters brought the show back to the airwaves. Wow! The amazing
power of Kryptonite in the hands of kids! Bud Collyer, later of TV's
Beat the Clock and To Tell The Truth, played Clark Kent aka Superman on
the series.
9/1
1922 The first daily news program on radio was The Radio Digest, on
WBAY. The program, hosted by George F. Thompson, the program's editor,
originated from New York City.
9/2
1931 15 Minutes with Bing Crosby debuted on CBS.
9/5
1938 The NBC Red network broadcast Life Can Be Beautiful for the first
time. The program was "an inspiring message of faith drawn from life."
The program aired until 1954.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 13:39:48 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: New Server
Folks;
If you can read this Digest, the new server is running properly. ;)
Charlie
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