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This week in radio history 4-10 Octo [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 08:15:50 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 4-10 October
From Those Were The Days
10/4
1948 Gordon MacRae hosted the premiere of a radio classic. The
Railroad Hour debuted on ABC. The theme song was I've Been Working on
the Railroad and the show was sponsored by, get ready for it, America's
Railroads.
10/5
1930 - Father Coughlin, "The Fighting Priest" was first heard. He lit
up the airwaves with oratory that aired into the early forties.
10/6
1937 Hobby Lobby debuted on CBS. The host was the dean of American
hobbyists, Dave Elman. The show's theme was The Best Things in Life are
Free. Sponsors included Fels Naptha soap, Hudson paper products and
Colgate Dental Creme.
10/7
1922 The first radio network of sorts debuted. It was a network of
just two stations. WJZ in Newark, NJ teamed with WGY in Schenectady, NY
to bring the World Series game direct from the Polo Grounds in New York.
Columnist Grantland Rice was behind the microphone for that broadcast.
1939 Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy was heard for the first time on CBS
radio. Tom Hopkins, Kate's husband, was played by Clayton 'Bud' Collyer,
later of eventual Superman fame. The 15 minute radio drama was written
by Chester McCraken and Gertrude Berg. The announcer for the four year
run of Angel of Mercy was Ralph Edwards of future This is Your Life
fame. And the sponsor was Maxwell House of coffee fame.
1940 Portia Faces Life debuted on the NBC Red network. This radio soap
opera centered around the life of Portia Blake Manning, an attorney and
a widow with a young son. Portia Faces Life was extremely popular, and
therefore, had many sponsors none of which were soap. The sponsors
included Post Toasties, Grape Nuts Flakes, Grape Nuts Wheat Meal,
Maxwell House coffee, Jell O desserts and La France bleach.
10/8
1935 The O'Neill's debuted on CBS. The theme song, Londonderry Air,
opened the 15 minute soap opera. The O'Neill's aired Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays at 7:30 [removed] In 1936 it moved to daytime where it stayed
until 1943 on NBC's Red and Blue networks and on CBS, too. One of
radio's original soaps, it was sponsored appropriately by Silver Dust,
Ivory soap and Ivory soap flakes.
1935 Wedding bells pealed for a singer and a bandleader who tied the
knot, making radio history together. The bandleader was Ozzie Nelson and
the singer was Harriet Hilliard. They would make the history pages again
on this very day nine years later.
1944 The first broadcast of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet was
heard on the CBS network.
Joe
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