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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2020 : Issue 49
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 15-21 Nov  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 09:08:02 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: This week in radio history 15-21 November

     From Those Were The Days

    11/15

    1926   Network radio was born. Twenty four stations carried the first
    broadcast from the National Broadcasting Company. The program was a gala
    four and a half hour broadcast from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New
    York City.

    11/18

    1307   The story of William Tell shooting the apple off of his young
    son's noggin is said to have taken place on this day.

    (If it hadn't been for Tell there would have been no opera, if there had
    been no opera there would have been no overture, if there had been no
    overture the Lone Ranger wouldn't have had the theme music we know.
    That's a joke son, I say that's a joke.  --ed)

    11/20

    1929 - The first broadcast of The Rise of the Goldbergs, with Gertrude
    Berg as Molly, was heard on the NBC Blue network. Later, the title would
    be shortened to The Goldbergs. Mrs. Berg, incidentally, wrote the first
    scripts for the 15-minute program and starred in the show -- for $75 a
    week. ($1,113 in 2018 dollars).  The program continued until 1945 (it
    returned for one season in 1949-1950). Gertrude Berg entertained
    audiences with New York style, motherly phrases like, "Button up your
    neck. It's cold outside."

    11/21

    1938   WBOE in Cleveland, OH became the first school operated radio
    station (owned by a municipality) to receive a license from the FCC.
    WBOE went on the air as a 500 watt AM station and later became an FM
    station.

    1938   The first broadcast of Central City was heard. It was an
    adventure mystery show set at the newspaper in, you guessed it, Central
    City. Elspeth Eric played the part of crime reporter Emily Olson; and
    Van Heflin was crime reporter Bob Shellenberger (later, the part was
    played by Myron McCormick). Central City aired until 1941.

    1944   "Happy trails to you, until we meet [removed]" The Roy Rogers
    Show was first heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Singing along
    with Roy (The King of the Cowboys'), were the Whippoorwills and The Sons
    of the Pioneers.

    Joe

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