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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2020 : Issue 16
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Voice of Firestone                    [ Martin Fass <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
      OTR Actors across US & Canada perfor  [ DennyT49 <dennyt49@[removed]; ]
      Historical museum to virtually prese  [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 24-30 May  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Debate                                [ karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@hotma ]

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    Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 15:22:21 -0400
    From: Martin Fass <watchstop@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Voice of Firestone
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    This program and The Bell Telephone Hour were established as "The Monday Night
    of Music" on NBC, years before television. I was a kid in the forties,
    profiting at the time as well as, it turned out, all through my life, because
    my parents never missed a minute of these concerts, and I and my brother were
    right there, too.
    Yet another example of how much of a vital role radio played in our world.
    -Martin Fass

    Sent from Frontier Yahoo Mail for iPhone

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    Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 15:23:33 -0400
    From: DennyT49 <dennyt49@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OTR Actors across US & Canada  performing
     together online
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    Fans of OTR will be interested to learn of this new wonderful and creative
    project to keep OTR productions alive during our current pandemic!

    Actors from six different OTR Troupes across the US and Canada are performing
    together online via video conference and posting them for free viewing on
    Project Audion.  This is the brain child of Larry Groebe of the Generic Radio
    Workshop in Dallas Texas.  It's vintage radio meeting modern technology. Watch
    or just listen - search for "Project Audion" on Facebook or Youtube.
    In the first production, you can listen and watch episodes of the mystery show
    "Suspense" and the soap opera "Mary Noble, Back Stage Wife." The second
    production was the terrifying and timeless Arch Obler play, "Special to
    Hollywood"The upcoming third production will be of the classic 1937 Columbia
    Radio Workshop's broadcast "RUR"  which is the audio adaptation of the
    historic 1920 sci-fi play which introduced the world to robots!  It will
    premier on Friday, May 29th at 9 [removed] EST.  [removed]
    or [removed] ThompsonAdvent Radio
    PlayersWestminster, CO

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    Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 15:25:26 -0400
    From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
    To: OTR <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Historical museum to virtually present an
     episode of Fibber McGee and Molly
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    This looks interesting: an historical museum in Edmund, OK will present a reenactment of an episode of Fibber McGee and Molly on June 14 via Zoom.

    Historical museum to virtually present 1940s radio comedy show

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    The Edmond Historical Society and Museum will virtually present 1940s Radio Comedy Theater: "Fibber McGee the [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 15:25:38 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 24-30 May

     From Those Were The Days --

    5/26

    1940 - "Invitation to Learning" was first heard on CBS radio. The
    educational radio program ran for 15 years on the network.

    5/28

    1931 - WOR radio in New York City premiered "The Witch's Tale". The
    program was broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System (of which WOR
    was the flagship station) where it aired until 1938.

    5/29

    1939 - "When a Girl Marries" was first heard on CBS. The serial
    continued for eighteen years.

    1943 - "The Million Dollar Band" was heard for the first time on NBC
    radio. Charlie Spivak was the first leader of the band that featured
    Barry Wood as vocalist. The unusual feature of the show was the awarding
    each week of five diamond rings!

    5/30

    1922 - "Smilin" Ed McConnell debuted on radio, smiling and playing his
    banjo. McConnell quickly became a legend in the medium.

    1935 - "America's Town Meeting" was heard on radio for the first time.
    The NBC program continued for 21 years, with a name change to "America's
    Town Meeting of the Air".

    1938 - "Joyce Jordan, Girl Intern" was first heard interning on CBS
    radio.  The show became Joyce Jordan, MD, on NBC in the '40s and later
    morphed into "The Brighter Day" (1948).

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 15:26:27 -0400
    From: karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Debate

    5/23 -1922 - The first debate to be heard on radio was broadcast on WJH in
    Washington, DC. The two debaters argued about the topic of Daylight
    Saving Time with the audience acting as the judge.

    Broadcasting's first debate-- and it STILL isn't settled!

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