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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2019 : Issue 6
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 27 Januar  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      This week in radio history 2-9 Febru  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 11:33:20 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 27 January to 2
     February

     From Those Were The Days -

    1/27

    1931 - NBC radio introduced listeners to "Clara, Lu 'n' Em" on its Blue
    network (later, ABC radio). The show became the first daytime radio
    serial when it was moved from its original nighttime slot.

    1948 - Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first
    magnetic wire recorder. The `Wireway' machine with a built-in oscillator
    sold for $[removed]  ($1,[removed] in 2017 dollars dollars).

    1956 - The "CBS Radio Workshop" was heard for the first time. This first
    broadcast featured Aldous Huxley narrating his classic, "Brave New World".

    1/28

    1940 Beat the Band made its debut on NBC, with the Ted Weems band. Beat
    the Band was where listeners' questions were selected in the hopes of
    stumping the band. If a listener's question was chosen, he or she
    received $10 ($177 in 2017 dollars ) The questions were posed as
    riddles: What song title tells you what Cinderella might have said if
    she awoke one morning and found that her foot had grown too large for
    her glass slipper? If the band played the correct musical answer, Where
    Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?, the listener lost.

    When Raleigh cigarettes sponsored Beat the Band, the listener who beat
    the band won $50 ($888 in 2017 dollars) and two cartons of cigarettes
    ... Raleigh's, of course. When the sponsor changed to General Mill's Kix
    cereal, if the listener beat the band, he/she won twenty bucks ($355 in
    2017 dollars ) and a case of Kix cereal.

    1934   As a result of a compliment paid on this day, by Walter Winchell,
    in his newspaper column; a local disc jockey began receiving several
    offers from talent scouts and producers. The DJ became known as the
    Redhead, adored by thousands in Washington, DC and, later, by millions
    across the country on CBS radio and TV. His trademark (strumming a
    ukulele and delivering down home patter) endeared him to fans for many
    years. We remember the broadcasting legend, Arthur Godfrey. "I wanna go
    back to my little grass [removed]"

    1/30

    1933    The Lone Ranger was heard for the first time.

    1/31

    1936   The Green Hornet was introduced by its famous theme song, The
    Flight of the Bumble Bee. The radio show was first heard on WXYZ in
    Detroit, MI on this day. The show stayed on the air for 16 years. The
    Green Hornet originated from the same radio station where The Lone
    Ranger was performed. You may remember that the title character in The
    Green Hornet was really named Britt Reid. He was, in fact, supposed to
    be the great nephew of John* Reid, the Lone Ranger. Both popular series
    were created by George Trendle and Fran Striker.  (*The name of John is
    disputed since his first name is believed not to be recorded anywhere).

    2/2

    1946   The Mutual Broadcasting System presented Twenty Questions for the
    first time. Bill Slater was the master of ceremonies.

    Joe

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    Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 11:33:27 -0500
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 2-9 February

     From Those Were The Days

    2/5

    1931   Eddie Cantor's long radio career got underway as he appeared on
    Rudy Vallee's The Fleischmann Hour.

    1940   Amanda of Honeymoon Hill debuted. Joy Hathaway starred as 'the
    beauty of flaming red hair'. The program stayed for six years on NBC.

    2/6

    1950   NBC first broadcast Dangerous Assignment. The show starred Brian
    Donlevy in the role of soldier of fortune, Steve Mitchell.

    2/8

    1924   John Joseph Carty of the Bell Telephone System spoke in Chicago,
    IL. His speech was carried across the nation on the first coast to coast
    radio hookup. An estimated 50 million people heard the speech.

    Joe

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