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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2016 : Issue 13
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
YTJD [ Radioclass <radioclass@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 21-27 Feb [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Re: Wild Bill Hicock [ Wesley Tom <[removed]@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:16:36 -0500
From: Radioclass <radioclass@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: YTJD
Jay Hickerson was requesting info on the first YTJD program. I also have
episode 1 dated Feb 18, 1949. Previous to that was an audition show dated
either Dec 6 or 7 of 1948 with Dick Powell as Johnny Dollar.
This info is from my a broadcast of this audition show on Radio Classics in
Chicago area in April of 1995 and again March 1997.
Anne
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:16:43 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 21-27 February
2/22
1954 ABC radio's popular Breakfast Club, program with longtime host,
Don McNeill, was simulcast on TV beginning this day. The telecast of the
show was a bomb, but the radio program went on as one of the longest
running programs on the air. (I saw a kinoscope of that show and
basically it was the radio show with a camera pointed at the cast.
Hmmm, come to think of it, it wasn't much different from today's video
podcasts. --ed)
2/23
1927 [removed] President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill into law that
created the Federal Radio Commission, "to bring order out of this
terrible chaos." The president was speaking, of course, of the nation's
then unregulated radio stations. The commission assigned frequencies,
hours of operation and power allocations for radio broadcasters across
the [removed] The name was changed to the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) on July 1, 1934.
2/24
1942 It was an historic day in radio broadcasting, as the Voice of
America (VOA) signed on for the first time on this day.
2/27
1922 Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convened the first National
Radio Conference in Washington, DC. Industry regulations were widely
discussed.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:18:40 -0500
From: Wesley Tom <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Wild Bill Hicock
I think we should also include Have Gun, Will Travel as another show that
started on television and then added a radio version.
Wesley Tom
Redlands, CA
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