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Date: 12/3/2018 10:14 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2018 : Issue 67
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 2-8 Decem  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      first play-by-play                    [ <rmcblc@[removed]; ]
      Jim Cox                               [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]

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    Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 23:34:40 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 2-8 December

     From Those Were The Days

    12/2

    1932   The Adventures of Charlie Chan was first heard on the NBC Blue
    network.

    12/3

    1928   The first broadcast of The Voice of Firestone was heard. The
    program aired each Monday evening at 8. The Voice of Firestone became a
    hallmark in radio broadcasting. It kept its same night, time (in 1931
    the start time changed to 8:30) and sponsor for its entire run.
    Beginning on September 5, 1949, the program of classical and
    semiclassical music was also seen on television.

    12/4

    1932   "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the
    ships at sea. Let's go to press!" The Jergens Journal aka The Walter
    Winchell Show and later, Kaiser Frazer News was first heard on the NBC
    Blue network. Winchell kept that gossip show going on the radio for 23
    years. It was sponsored at first by Jergens lotion and, later, by Dryad
    deodorant, Kaiser Frazer cars and Richard Hudnut shampoo.

    1933   One of America's great radio shows made the leap to the big time.
    Ma Perkins moved from WLW in Cincinnati, OH to the NBC Red network. The
    show proved to be so popular that it was later carried on both CBS and NBC.

    12/5

    1936   Bing Crosby took over as host of The Kraft Music Hall. Jimmy
    Dorsey (who would later be host, himself) led the Kraft Orchestra.

    1952   Mutual broadcast The Green Hornet for the final time. The show
    left the air after 15 years on Mutual, NBC and ABC.

    12/6

    1923   The first presidential address to be carried on radio was
    broadcast from Washington, DC. President Calvin Coolidge addressed a
    joint session of the [removed] Congress.

    Joe

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    Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 23:34:53 -0500
    From: <rmcblc@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  first play-by-play

    Re: 1920   The first play by play coverage of a football game was broadcast
    by WTAW in College Station, TX. Texas University beat the Aggies of Texas
    A&M, 7 3.

    This entry needs some help. First, the year was 1921; second, the game ended
    in a scoreless tie (though the score is correct for the 1920 game).

    It should be noted that "broadcast" is used in the most general sense. It
    was actually what turned out to be the "wave of the future" even into the
    1970s, as telegraph and Teletype operators sent coded messages (Morse by
    telegraph, written abbreviations by Teletype) of the action on the field, be
    it football or baseball. In this case, the description of the game was sent
    by amateur radio telegraphers to other ham stations, who in turn - knowing
    what the abbreviations meant - announced the description to crowds that
    might have gathered on campus or around newspaper offices.

    You'll find a detailed, and often confusing, account of how all this came
    about at:
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    Like a lot of other "firsts," this one also is disputed, depending on how,
    when and other circumstances:
    [removed] and
    [removed] and many other sites.

    Bob Cockrum
    Temple, Texas

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    Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 00:12:56 -0500
    From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Jim Cox

    Folks;

       Heard from friend Jack French that Jim is doing pretty [removed] had a bit
    of a health annoyance last week, but seems to be recovering nicely from it.
    Jim puts his health issues into perspective; "...have never been bewildered
    or disheartened by what has transpired in my life this year, nor am I
    frustrated by it.  Annoyed at times, but thinking [removed]"

       Jack reminds that if any of you want to send him a Holiday card, his home
    address is:

    202 S. Evergreen Rd
    Louisville, KY 40243

       Thank you, Jack!

             Charlie

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