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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2014 : Issue 7
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Ed Sullivan                           [ Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@sbcgloba ]
  This week in radio history 19-25 Jan  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Radio on Television                   [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]

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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:27:46 -0500
From: Steve Salaba <dangerdanger@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Ed Sullivan

To add to a recent post, Jack Benny once said that Ed had a sports show of
some kind when Jack appeared on it. I don't know how accurate Jack's memory
was at the time. There may be more to it, at any rate.

And, yes I do recall when Ed substituted for Red. Ed played himself
effectively in the movie version of Bye Bye Birdie, IIRC. :)

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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:28:04 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 19-25 January

 From Those Were The Days -

1/20

1954   The National Negro Network was formed on this date. Some 40 radio
stations were charter members of the network.

1/21

1927   The first opera to be broadcast over a national radio network was
presented in Chicago, IL. Listeners heard selections from Faust.

1946   The Fat Man debuted on ABC. J. Scott Smart, who played the portly
detective, weighed in at 270 pounds in real life.

1/22

1956   Raymond Burr starred as Captain Lee Quince in the Fort Laramie
debut on CBS. The program was said to be in "the Gunsmoke tradition."

1/23

1937   In an article published in Literary Digest, Edgar Bergen
mentioned that he made his dummy pal, Charlie McCarthy, the beneficiary
of a $10,000 trust fund ($157,802 in 2012 dollars) to keep him in
serviceable condition and repair.

1/24

1930   Ben Bernie (Benjamin Anzelwitz) began a weekly remote broadcast
from the lovely Roosevelt Hotel in NYC.

1942 - Abie's Irish Rose was first heard on NBC this day replacing
Knickerbocker Playhouse. The program was based on the smash play from
Broadway that ran for nearly 2,000 performances. Sydney Smith played the
part of Abie. Rosemary Murphy was played by Betty Winkler.

1/25

1937   NBC presented the first broadcast of The Guiding Light.

1944   The character, a black maid named Beulah and played by a white
man, Marlin Hurt, aired for the first time on Fibber McGee and Molly.
The spinoff, Beulah, became a radio series in 1945.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:57:20 -0500
From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Radio on Television

Folks;

   Some of you used the Digest's referral link when getting your Copy
account, which gave the Digest's Copy folder extra space. I hate seeing
storage space unused, [removed]

   I've started a new folder in the Digest's Copy folder called Radio on TV,
where I plan to gather a bunch of the video files I've collected over the
years. All of these videos will have something to do with radio
[removed] of radio programs on television, radio actors who made the
transition to television, and other connections.

   The first thing I've added to that folder is the 1954 pilot (a pilot is a
single episode of a proposed television program produced as a test to see if
the series should be purchased by the network) of The Shadow. The series was
never made, so the only episode is this, The Case of the Cotton Kimono.

   The video file I have is not the [removed]'s only 320x238 with an audio
auto-gain problem, so if anyone has a better copy of this program let me know
and I'll cheerfully replace this with a better copy. Meantime, enjoy this
failed pilot!

   (If you don't have access to the Digest's Copy folder, or have an account
but can't remember how to get to the Digest's folder, drop me a note. It's
completely free to get a Copy account.)

         Charlie

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