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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2016 : Issue 76
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Number Please                         [ "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 20-26 Nov  [ [removed]@[removed] ]
      Number Please program in pCloud fold  [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]

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    Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:46:26 -0500
    From: "Ian Grieve" <austotr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Number Please

    In Digest V2016 #75, Read Burgan asks about why there aren't more "Number
    Please".  Read, I have a 16" WOR Disc labelled "Number Please" ep417
    Broadcast Date September 6th, 1948 and ep418 Broadcast Date September 8th,
    1948.

    I picked it up just to check it had nothing to do with the Australian series
    which uses a similar name.

    Happy to make a recording for you if you don't have that one.

    Ian Grieve
    Australia

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    Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:47:04 -0500
    From: [removed]@[removed]
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 20-26 November

     From Those Were The Days

    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. ($1,050 in 2015 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.

    11/22

    1906   Delegates attending the Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference in
    Germany voted to use SOS (...   ...) as the letters for the new
    international signal. The international use of "SOS" was ratified in
    1908. Its meaning? No, not "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" as many
    believe. Its only meaning was as a distress signal, quick to transmit by
    Morse code and not easily misread. It is not an acronym. Incidentally,
    how did SOS pads come to use the same initials? They're named after a
    patented process, Soap on Steel.

    11/23

    1929   Shirley Booth and Ed Gardner were married on this day. Miss Booth
    was famous for her television acting role ("Hazel"); but we remember
    when she and her husband played Miss Duffy and Archie on Duffy's Tavern.

    1958   One of the last drama programs on radio debuted. It was unusual
    in that it followed the TV show of the same name. Have Gun Will Travel
    was broadcast on CBS and starred John Dehner as Paladin.

    11/24

    1937   Music from the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, Massachusetts was
    beamed coast to coast on NBC. The special guests during this broadcast
    were Glenn Miller and his orchestra.

    11/25

    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.

    1944   CBS presented The FBI in Peace and War for the first time. It
    became one of the longest running crime shows on radio lasting 14 years.

    1945   A spoof of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, [removed] Pinafore, was
    broadcast on The Fred Allen Show. The spoof was titled, The Brooklyn
    Pinafore. Joining actress Shirley Booth in the skit was baseball great
    Leo 'The Lip' Durocher.

    1960   Radio actors were put out of work when CBS axed five serials
    (soap operas) from the airwaves. We said so long to The Second Mrs.
    Burton (after 14 years), Young Doctor Malone, Whispering Streets (after
    8 years), Right to Happiness (after 21 years) and Ma Perkins (after 27
    wonderful years.) In 1940, the high point for these radio programs,
    there were as many as 45 on the air each day!

    11/26

    1945   Bride and Groom, debuted on the ABC network. It is estimated that
    1,000 newly wed couples were interviewed on the program before it left
    the airwaves in 1950.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:06:11 -0500
    From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Number Please program in pCloud folder

    Folks;

       Read Burgan provided an episode of Number Please, which I placed in the
    Digest's pCloud Shared Folder for your enjoyment. If you don't have access
    (it's completely free, and doesn't require any software installation since
    you can access through any web browser), let me know and I'll send
    instructions.

              Charlie

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