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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2016 : Issue 65
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 2-8 Octob  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      SummersTime Halloween Program         [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]

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    Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:29:40 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 2-8 October

    10/3

    1901   The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated on this day.
    After a merger with Radio Corporation of America, RCA Victor became the
    leader in phonographs and many of the records played on them. The famous
    Victrola phonograph logo, with Nipper the dog, and the words "His
    Master's Voice", appeared on all RCA Victor phonographs and record labels.

    1946   Dennis Day started his own show on NBC. Dennis, a popular tenor
    featured on The Jack Benny Show, played the same (type) naive young
    bachelor he played on the Benny show. A Day in the Life of Dennis Day
    aired for five years.

    10/4

    1948   Gordon MacRae hosted the premiere of a radio classic. The
    Railroad Hour debuted on ABC. The theme song was I've Been Working on
    the Railroad and the show was sponsored by, get ready, America's Railroads.

    10/5

    1930   The New York Philharmonic Orchestra was first heard on the air
    over CBS from Carnegie Hall. The Sunday afternoon concerts set CBS back
    $15,000 ($215,473 in 2015 dollars). Not per week, but for the entire season!

    1930   This was a big day for CBS. Following the orchestra broadcast
    (above), Father Coughlin, The Fighting Priest was first heard on network
    radio. He lit up the airwaves with oratory that aired into the early
    forties.  He was first heard on WJR Detroit in 1926.

    1934   The first major network radio show to originate from Hollywood
    aired on this day. Hollywood Hotel was heard on CBS and was heavily
    promoted as being the first to broadcast from the West Coast of the [removed]

    1947   A small Northern California company got a major boost from Bing
    Crosby. The first show recorded on tape was broadcast on ABC. 'Der
    Bingle' was so popular, that his taped show promoted wide distribution
    of the new magnetic tape recorders that would become broadcast classics
    the venerable Ampex 200.

    1952   After an 11 year run, Inner Sanctum, the legendary mystery
    series, was heard for the final time.  There is the story of a staffer
    who did actually oil the door before one [removed] ed.  (PS I have a
    door that creaks just like that one when opened slowly.  I've never
    oiled it in the hopes Raymond would appear.)

    10/6

    1937   Hobby Lobby debuted on CBS. The host was the dean of American
    hobbyists, Dave Elman. The show's theme was The Best Things in Life are
    Free. Sponsors included Fels Naptha soap, Hudson paper products and
    Colgate Dental Creme.

    10/7

    1922   The first radio network, of sorts, debuted. It was a network of
    just two stations. WJZ in Newark, NJ teamed with WGY in Schenectady, NY
    to bring the World Series game direct from the Polo Grounds in New York.
    Columnist Grantland Rice was behind the microphone for that broadcast.

    1939   Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy was heard for the first time on CBS
    radio. Tom Hopkins, Kate's husband, was played by Clayton 'Bud' Collyer,
    later of eventual Superman fame. The 15 minute radio drama was written
    by Chester McCraken and Gertrude Berg (writer and Emmy Award winning
    actress of The Goldbergs, a popular radio and TV series in the 1940s &
    1950s). The announcer for the four year run of Angel of Mercy was Ralph
    Edwards of future This is Your Life fame. And the sponsor was Maxwell
    House of coffee fame.

    1940   Portia Faces Life debuted on the NBC Red network. This radio soap
    opera centered around the life of Portia Blake Manning, an attorney and
    a widow with a young son.  Portia Faces Life was extremely popular, and
    therefore, had many sponsors    none of which were soap. The sponsors
    included Post Toasties, Grape Nuts Flakes, Grape Nuts Wheat Meal,
    Maxwell House coffee, Jell O desserts and La France bleach.

    10/8

    1935   The O'Neills debuted on CBS. The theme song, Londonderry Air,
    opened the 15 minute soap opera. The O'Neills aired Mondays, Wednesdays
    and Fridays at 7:30 [removed] In 1936 it moved to daytime where it stayed
    until 1943 on NBC's Red and Blue networks and on CBS, too. One of
    radio's original soaps, it was sponsored appropriately by Silver Dust,
    Ivory soap and Ivory soap flakes.

    1935   Wedding bells pealed for a singer and a bandleader who tied the
    knot, making radio history together. The bandleader was Ozzie Nelson and
    the singer was Harriet Hilliard. They would make the history pages again
    on this very day nine years later.

    1944   The first broadcast of The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet was
    heard on the CBS network.

    Joe

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    Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 23:23:33 -0400
    From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  SummersTime Halloween Program

    Folks;

       Kate and I are putting together our newest Halloween-themed episode of
    SummersTime with another spooky trip to the Nostalgialand Cemetary, and we'd
    really appreciate some program suggestions! What Halloween shows are your
    favorites? Comedy, mystery or horror, everything's fair game - we have three
    hours this year, so even more candy-corn and house-egging!

       Shows we've already played in previous trips to the Cemetary:

    Witch's Tale, The       371019 Four Fingers and a Thumb
    Our Miss Brooks         481031 Halloween
    Father Knows Best       531029 Halloween Blues
    Quiet, Please           471027 Don't Tell Me About Halloween
    Escape                  491115 Three Skeleton Key
    Jack Benny Program, The 411102 Halloween Celebration
    Inner Sanctum Mysteries 451106 #244 The Wailing Wall
    Baby Snooks             461101 Halloween

       So which of _your_ favorite Halloween programs should we run this year?

             Charlie

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