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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2020 : Issue 44
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


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  This week in radio history 25-31 Oct  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 06:43:42 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
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Subject: This week in radio history 25-31 October

 From Those Were The Days

10/25

1937   Stella Dallas made her debut on the NBC Red network. Stella hung 
out  on NBC until 1955 with Anne Elstner in the title role for the 
entire run.  Stella Dallas was "A continuation on the air of the true 
life story of  mother love and sacrifice, in which Stella saw her own 
beloved daughter, Laurel, marry into wealth and society, and realizing 
the difference in  their tastes and worlds, went out of Laurel's life."

10/26

1935   A talented 13 year old sang on Wallace Beery's NBC show. Judy 
Garland delighted the appreciative audience. The young girl would soon 
be in pictures and at the top of stardom. It would be only four years 
before Ms. Garland (George Jessel gave her the name, thinking it would 
be better than her own, Frances Gumm) captured the hearts of moviegoers 
everywhere with her performance as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.

10/27

Marconi, Fessenden, and De Forest were the catalysts. However, it was an 
engineer for Westinghouse Electric who, in 1916, was broadcasting music 
from his garage (in Wilkinsburg, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh) over a 
wireless (amateur radio station 8XK) who really got the whole thing 
started. A newspaper article about the broadcasts caused such interest 
that the head honchos at Westinghouse decided to build a real radio station.

It took until this day in 1920 for the Westinghouse radio station to 
receive a license to broadcast. The license for KDKA, Pittsburgh came 
from the [removed] Department of Commerce. Although the license was 
officially issued on this day, KDKA did not start their broadcast 
operations for a week (they had to wait until the license was posted in 
the station). On November 2, 1920, the station aired the returns of the 
Harding/Cox election ... the first radio programming to reach an 
audience of any size ... approximately 1,000 people.

1947   This is Nora Drake premiered on NBC. Nora solved domestic, social 
and child raising problems until January 2, 1959.

1947   "The one, the only Groucho" Marx appeared as quizmaster on You 
Bet Your Life for the first time on ABC. George Fenneman was Groucho's 
eternal straight man. Fenneman stayed with Marx during the program's run 
on radio (1948-1959) and TV (1950-1961). By the way, who is buried in 
Grant's tomb?

10/28

1922   WEAF in New York broadcast the first collegiate football game 
heard coast to coast. Princeton played the University of Chicago at 
Stagg Field in the Windy City. The broadcast was carried on phone lines 
to New York City, where the radio transmission began. (Princeton 21,
Chicago 18.)

1946   Our favorite flying cowboy was heard on ABC for the first time. 
Sky King starred Jack Lester, then Earl Nightingale, and finally, Roy 
Engel, as Sky. Beryl Vaughn played Sky's niece Penny; Jack Bivans was 
Clipper and Cliff Soubier was the foreman. Sky King was sponsored by
Peter Pan Peanut Butter

10/30

Orson Welles, known to radio audiences as The Shadow, presented his 
famous dramatization of [removed] Wells' The War of the Worlds on CBS's 
Mercury Theater at 8 [removed]

10/31

1942   One of the great wartime shows premiered. CBS debuted Thanks to 
the Yanks, starring Bob Hawk. It became one of the most popular of the 
wartime programs.

Joe

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