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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2016 : Issue 82
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Tune into Yesterday Issue 79 [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 11-17 Dec [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:59:33 -0500
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Tune into Yesterday Issue 79
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HiORCA's Tune into Yesterday magazine Issue 79 is now available in the UK.
Articles include our usual updates from the archives, plus articles about
radio in the Cold War era, and 'news men' on the American networks from the
1930s - 1960s. AB sample copy is free in the UK from ourB membership sec
John Wolstenholme: ORCA, PO Box 1922, Dronfield, S18B 8XA.
Cheers ! Graeme
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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:59:48 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 11-17 December
12/11
1944 The Chesterfield Supper Club debuted on NBC. Perry Como, Jo
Stafford and many other stars of the day shared the spotlight on the 15
minute show that aired five nights a week. The show was sponsored by
Chesterfield cigarettes.
12/12
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1901 Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first
transatlantic radio transmission in St. John's Newfoundland.
From Those Were The Days
1937 The Federal Communications Commission was a bit upset with NBC.
The FCC scolded the radio network for a skit that starred Mae West. The
satirical routine was based on the biblical tale of Adam and Eve but
West's "suggestive" reading was not to network standards. So, following
its scolding by the FCC, NBC banned Miss West from its airwaves for
several years. Even the mere mention of her name on NBC was a no-no, it
is said.
12/13
1942 The characters of Allen's Alley were presented for the first time
on The Fred Allen Show. This particular segment of the show became very
popular and was used by Allen until 1949. Remember the stops along the
way in Allen's Alley? They were at the Brooklyn tenement of Mrs.
Nussbaum, the farmhouse of Titus Moody, the shack of Ajax Cassidy and
the antebellum mansion of Senator Beauregard Claghorn.
12/14
1953 Fred Allen returned from semi-retirement to narrate Prokofiev's
classic, Peter and the Wolf, on the Bell Telephone Hour on NBC.
12/16
1949 After a decade on radio, Captain Midnight was heard for the final
time.
12/17
1936 Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen kidded around with his pal, Charlie
McCarthy (who was a bit wooden, we [removed]), for the first time on
radio. The two debuted on The Rudy Vallee Show on NBC. Soon, Bergen
became one of radio's hottest properties, and was called Vallee's
greatest talent discovery.
Joe
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