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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2001 : Issue 274
A Part of the [removed]!
ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Radio magazines [ Michael Henry <mlhenry@[removed]; ]
Re: Damaged OTR tapes [ "S Skuse" <sskuse@[removed]; ]
NBC Chimes [ Dan Riedstra <[removed]@wcom. ]
Obit for Raymond Edward Johnson? [ Grbmd@[removed] ]
CANADA LEE [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
OBSOLETE PRODUCTS [ PURKASZ@[removed] ]
Re: LONE RANGER supporting voices [ "Michael Ogden" <michaelo67@hotmail ]
Barry Gray [ Grbmd@[removed] ]
Richard Lamparski [ Bhob <bhob2@[removed]; ]
The Non-Walking Wounded [ Bill Harris <radioguy@[removed]; ]
OTR spots and slogans [ "jstokes" <jstokes@[removed]; ]
Obsolete Products [ "welsa" <welsa@[removed]; ]
Re: Chimes [ Steve Salaba <philmfan@[removed] ]
Favorite radio actress [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
Two Characters - Same Name [ dougdouglass@[removed] ]
Re: Obsolete OTR Products [ "Dave Walter" <fredallenfan@hotmail ]
Links to all kinds of Pulp Magazines [ Elmer Standish <elmer_standish@telu ]
THE LONE RANGER IN BUFFALO? [ "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed]; ]
Yet More Pulp Magazine Links [ Elmer Standish <elmer_standish@telu ]
Texaco and the Met [ "Ed Ellers" <ed_ellers@[removed]; ]
Two-Ton Baker [ "David H. Buswell" <dbuswell@rivnet ]
BEA BENADERT [ lynn wagar <philcolynn@[removed]; ]
Network compensation of stations [ "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyro ]
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:34:35 -0400
From: Michael Henry <mlhenry@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Radio magazines
If you are looking for radio magazines for research, the
Library of American Broadcasting has an extensive
collection of American and British radio magazines from the
1920's to the present, covering programming, stars,
management, engineering, advertising, and many other
subjects. Titles include RADIO GUIDE, RADIO MIRROR, RADIO
STARS, BROADCASTING, SPONSOR, RADIO DAILY, and many more.
For a complete listing, go to:
[removed]
None of the material is circulating but you are welcome to
do on-site research at the LAB. If you have specific or
approximate dates for the information you are looking for,
I'll be happy to look up the material for you. We do allow
photocopying of the material, but some titles may not be
photocopied due to their fragile condition.
I hope this information will be useful. Please let me know
if there is anything I can do to assist you with your
research.
-Michael Henry
Library of American Broadcasting
Hornbake Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-9160
bp50@[removed]
[removed]
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:34:42 -0400
From: "S Skuse" <sskuse@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Damaged OTR tapes
In recent postings Philip Chavin wrote:
Can the remaining, yet-to-be-played-back section of old-time
radio on these Memorex cassettes somehow be salvaged?
and Michael Hayde replied:
Probably you should transfer the tape spools into a new shell. Simply buy
a cassette that has a small-screw assembly, remove the tape that's in there
(pay close attention to the way it's threaded, tho), and CAREFULLY replace
it with the spools from your Memorex cassette.
Another possible solution is to play the Memorex cassettes on a cassette
deck with a replay head which by-passes the felt pressure-pad in the
cassette.
Some of the more expensive Pioneer cassette decks have a mechanism which
lifts the tape off the pad, and replays the recording without any
pad-to-tape contact (Pioneer claims that this eliminates one type of tape
instability on playback). It does mean though that the tape can thus be
played even if the pressure-pad is missing or has deteriorated.
Any tape that has been folded (a single crease down the length of the tape)
will replay, but it must first be flattened out. Place it on a smooth
surface, with the ridge of the fold sticking up, and **very** carefully use
a plastic impliment (eg a biro tube) to flatten it out.
Then don't play it until you have run the tape on fast forward to the end,
and on fast rewind to the beginning, preferrably 2 or 3 times. By doing
this, the tensioning mechanism in the cassette player will further flatten
the tape.
Put the tape into a new cassette shell, with a functional pressure-pad, if
you plan to play it on a machine that doesn't have Pioneer's suspended-tape
mechanism.
This solution is only intended to play the tape once, to enable you to
record the OTR material onto another cassette, or onto a CD, or onto a
computer (eg in mp3 format). CD is more durable. It's much less easily
damaged in the machine than tape.
A totally crumpled tape won't respond to the above treatment as well as a
folded tape.
A heavy iron might flatten out crumpled tape. But if the iron's become
magnetised, it will erase the recording, so watch out! Test it by running
the iron over a piece of junk tape first - any tape that has a recording on
it you don't want to keep! And use it cold. The **weight** of the iron is
what will flatten the tape.
That said, I haven't obtained anything like satisfactory results from the
cold-iron method, but it's a reasonable compromise if only a few seconds of
the tape have been crumpled.
The folding or crumpling is unlikely to be caused by the tape becoming
"sticky" due to the glue seeping through from the plastic backing. That
causes the tape to **adhere** to the capstan or pinch-roller and jam inside
the machine.
If it's glue, it will get on the capstan, and jam **every** tape you try to
play. So if you can play any tape at all, you've not got glue-seepage.
Don't try to even out the tape inside the cassette shell by squeezing the
shell. That can cause further damage to the tape.
The only safe way to even out a tape, that has wound unevenly, is to
painstakingly wind it to the end and then back to the beginning by hand,
using a biro tube or a pencil (or your finger!) as a winder. If you wind an
unevenly wound tape with the fast-forward button, you risk damaging the tape
even more.
Good luck!
Sandra
Go to [removed] for the best Jimmy Clitheroe site on
the web
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:34:45 -0400
From: Dan Riedstra <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: NBC Chimes
There has been some discussion on the digest about the NBC chimes. An
interesting thing I heard
recently at the end of a Fibber McGee & Molly broadcast from 1944 is that
instead of the regular three chimes, NBC used a sonovox (spelling?) just
like the ones used to do the Bromo-Seltzer
train voice to say "Buy War Bonds" in place of the actual pitched chimes.
I'm sure this was
done during one of the many War Loan Drives. Does anyone know of any other
surviving examples
of this?
Dan
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:34:52 -0400
From: Grbmd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Obit for Raymond Edward Johnson?
Can someone help me?
I learned of Raymond's passing from a Digest e-mail, but I'm looking for more
details.
I write short, condensed obits of prominent celebrities for an OTR newsletter
and Web site. In the past I've been able to research a published obit either
in my local newspaper or on the Web sites for Variety or the [removed] Times. In
Raymond's case, I struck out.
Does anyone out there have a copy of Raymond's obit that he or she could
paste into an e-mail to the Digest? Or do you know of a Web site that has it?
Any help would be appreciated.
Spence
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:34:59 -0400
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: CANADA LEE
I believe I have found a show with Canada Lee as star. Was it here some
days ago that I read a letter from someone who knew his widow?
If that person will contact me at this address:
purkasz@[removed]
I will elaborate. I am in the New York are and I think she must be too,
so it could work out just fine.
I am thrilled that this program would be available to her.
It is an episode of Theater Guild on the Air.
I can't find the title right now but will do so later.
<A HREF="[removed],+Michael+C.">
Michael C. Gwynne</A>
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:34:57 -0400
From: PURKASZ@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: OBSOLETE PRODUCTS
Reader JR brings back many memories! I actually like Kellogg's Pep, lawd
have mercy!
Have no idea what happened to any on his wonderful list, but Horlick's
Malt is alive and well in Hong Kong where I last saw it back in the mid 80's
while I was there shooting Taipan!
It made it into mainland China as well, though I could never find any
deodorant soap which was a shame because Macao is like Mississippi in the
summer!
Johnny Walker Black Scotch, my drink at the time, was $7 American for
[removed]!!!
Sigh!
<A HREF="[removed],+Michael+C.">Michael
C. Gwynne</A>
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:35:49 -0400
From: "Michael Ogden" <michaelo67@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: LONE RANGER supporting voices
In the course of mentioning the actors who appeared regularly on THE LONE
RANGER, it's worth remembering that in Detroit, as in other large centers of
broadcasting activity such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, radio
actors gravitated from station to station in the pursuit of work and could
have been regulars on any number of programs. Among the LONE RANGER
regulars, Bill Saunders ("Butch Cavendish" and other outlaws) is
particularly notable, because he also worked pretty steadily on another
long-lived Detroit series over at rival station WJR--namely, THE HERMIT'S
CAVE. Likewise, the gravel-voiced Paul Hughes. In fact, the 18-show HERMIT'S
CAVE set which Radio Spirits issued a few years ago has Saunders in the
majority of the broadcasts, including one of my favorites, "Vampire's
Desire." (I'm a sucker for radio dramas that take place entirely or almost
entirely in the dark--like the famous BBC play "A Comedy of Danger.")
Unfortunately, none of the HERMIT'S CAVE programs in the Radio Spirits set
have recording or broadcast dates listed, but I'm presuming that they're
mostly from the early Forties, which was when THE HERMIT'S CAVE first went
heavily into syndication.
Mike Ogden
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:37:11 -0400
From: Grbmd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Barry Gray
Andy asked, in part:
I am looking for some information about early talk radio programs,
preferably those with call-ins.
.....................
Also, I am aware that Barry Gary or maybe it was Barry Gray of WMCA spoke
with his callers.
When I was a teenager in the Forties, living in suburban New York, there was
a late-night radio show hosted by Barry Gray. It began, I think, at 11 [removed],
so I had trouble getting my parents to let me listen to it, but I did hear
some of the programs, at least the beginning segments.
It was a live program from New York's Copacabana nightclub, and I think
"Copa" was part of the program's title, as in "Live From the Copa." I'm not
sure if it was strictly local, or if it was fed to any other stations.
Gray tried mainly to entice celebrities to come over to talk on-air, but he
may have taken phone calls too. I remember he had a gimmick he called The
Game, in which he gave clues to the name of a celebrity, for which he would
eventually give the answer. (I remember that because I remember having
trouble talking my folks into letting me stay up at least until he gave the
answer to The Game.)
I seem to recall also that a variation of the show appeared on [removed]
television, at least briefly.
Hope this helps.
Spence
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:37:15 -0400
From: Bhob <bhob2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Richard Lamparski
DAVE GOLDIN on radio station WHIZ and Captain Marvel:
[removed]
To answer one of the questions about RICHARD LAMPARSKI and WHATEVER
BECAME [removed], yes, there was a TV series based on his books and WBAI
radio interviews. Titled WHATEVER BECAME OF HOLLYWOOD?, this series ran
through the Seventies on the CBC as part of a program called GALLERY.
Lamparski also made WHATEVER BECAME [removed] appearances on THE
MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW, and I recall seeing him host a half-hour CAMERA THREE
on the history of tap-dancing. He was an excellent TV host, and I
wondered at the time why he didn't do more with CAMERA THREE.
Some of the people he interviewed on his WHATEVER BECAME [removed] radio
show between 1965 and 1972: Olga Baclanova, Buffalo Bob, Busby Berkeley,
Spring Byington, Bud Collyer, Leo Gorcey, Libby Holman, Moe Howard,
Christine Jorgenson, Ruby Keeler, Pinky Lee, Butterfly McQueen, Bill
Owen, Jack Pearl, Benny Rubin, Peggy Wood.
As for the question, "Whatever became of Richard Lamparski?" several
messages on [removed] and other newsgroups state that Lamparski
lives in California and retired from nostalgia writing about 15 years
ago.
...
Bhob @ PRE-FUSE @ [removed]
.
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:37:24 -0400
From: Bill Harris <radioguy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Non-Walking Wounded
"Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed]; comments:
Although for other reasons Mr. Harris is probably correct, having a
small group of letters represent a phrase isn't unusual -- it's using a
_code_ as opposed to a cipher. "SOS" means "I am in difficulty/peril and
need assistance." Three letters to convey a much longer phrase. There
might have been a field code book that could employ an eight- to
ten-character group to convey a [removed]
These are referred to as "Q" codes and as Stephen implies, are three letter codes
that have assigned meanings. QTH? ( what is your location?) - QTH (my location
[removed]) QSY to xxx (change frequency to xxx) - QRS? (shall I send more slowly?) -
QRS (I will send more slowly) - QSB? (is my signal fading?) - QSL? (can you
acknowledge receipt?) - QSL (I acknowledge receipt), ect. [removed] get the idea I
did not detect any of these Q codes or what sounded like any other three letter
codes in anything of what I listened to.
As an aside, the first code (this is before radio and the Morse code) consisted of
only dits, no dahs, and only numbers were sent. The receiving telegrapher would
copy down a series of numbers and then look up the corresponding phrase in a code
book just as Steven describes above.
However, his observation,
rings true. And Walter Winchell, at the beginning of his show would
rattle a telegraph key without having the slightest idea of Morse Code.
But what does it for me is the quote from the commentator: "they're
piling dead wounded soldiers in our tunnel." Either the soldiers are
wounded or dead. "dead wounded soldiers" is rather oxymoronic; even
allowing for exhaustion by the commentator, that seems like a strange
phrase.
I went back and listened again to make sure I did not miss an "and" and yep "dead
wounded soldiers" is what he said. Is that one of them epoxymorons?
Bill Harris
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:37:39 -0400
From: "jstokes" <jstokes@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OTR spots and slogans
Ah. That calls for another montage here.
"It's 8 o'clock. B-U-L-O-V-A. Bulova watch time. {Go broke buying one
for her, this Christmas, chump!}" The {} are probably the thoughts of the
anncr, as he reads the copy. :)
And locally on KSDN, Aberdeen, South Dakota, many years ago, -- "It's 7
o'clock, courtesy of your Olwen Angell Store, in Aberdeen. Where mail
orders are prompty filled!" {bet the anncrs joked about "mail orders are
promptly filed." }
"It's 9 o'clock. Do you know where your children are tonight?"
SFX of RR train with chorus over "Bromo Selzer, Bromo Selzer, Bromo
[removed]" {fade out/crossfade}
"Yes, it's time for Jack Armstrong, the All-American boy. Brought to you
by General Mills, who wants to get you to eat Wheaties." {I heard that
verbatim on an old ET of the show, as voiced by anncr Tom Moore! That is
about as blatant an ad as you'll hear!" }
"So, next time you need to fill up your tank with quality gasoline, stop at
the sign of the Flying Red Horse!"
"Winston tastes good like a cigarette should. Winston has full rich
tobacco flavor. The flavor comes right home to you."
"You can take Salem out of the country. But -- you can't take the country
out of Salem." {anybody hear the joke about the tree in Salem?}
"The Cudahy Packing Company, makers of Old Dutch Cleanser, [removed]"
{what a corporate tie-in. and for what purpose???}
"Electricity is penny-cheap from NSP today!" {regional spot. what the
heck, turn on all the appliances! it's so cheap!}
- --------------------------------------------------------
AND NOW A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO MINNEAPOLIS'S VERY OWN DICK WILSON, OF
CARMICHAEL-LYNCH ADVERTISING, WHO GAVE US --
"Give wings to your thoughts! Your spirits SO-OO-ARRRR! On Northwest
Orient (cymbal crash) Airlines!"
"We're gonna win Twins. We're gonna score. We're gonna win Twins.
Watch that baseball soar! Give us a home run. Shout 'hip, hip, hooray!'
Cheer for the Minnesota Twins today!"
"Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't. Almond Joy's got
nuts. Mound's don't."
SFX -- MUSICAL CHIMES THROUGHOUT --
CHORUS & ORCHESTRA
"Northwestern National Bank. May we serve you, today?"
"...at the Fisher Nut (NUT SFX) Factory!"
- ----------------------------------------------------------
And Dick Wilson could not write a note of music. He would tap out the
rhythm and sing the songs he composed at a presentation to the client!
More next time, gals and guys. Till then, this is Jim Stokes, saying stay
tuned to this OTR station! This is the OTR Radio Network!
JS :)
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:10:48 -0400
From: "welsa" <welsa@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Obsolete Products
What's obsolete about Crisco? It's still very much a product, at least on
grocery shelves in Wisconsin!
I was interested in Lux Soap. Lots of web sites come up when you do a
search for it. There is still a product by that name, but it all seems to
come from Thailand, India and similar places. Probably not the same
product.
In addition to Roma Wines being gone, how about Cresta-Blanca, and Petri? I
haven't seen them in years. Mogen David is still very much with us,
however.
And Lava soap is still around (bar and liquid form, now), but what about
Lifebuoy? Is that still out there somewhere?
Boston Blackie used to be sponsord by Rocksam and Harmon Brewers, makers of
R & H Beer. Undoubtedly a regional product. Anyone know if they're still
around?
Ted
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:11:51 -0400
From: Steve Salaba <philmfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Chimes
I don't recall this being mentioned on this list before, but while in
Chicago recently I was listening to "Those Were The Days" and a program
they were broadcasting ended with the NBC chimes except they sounded a bit
like a voice saying "Buy War Bonds". An almost subliminal effect.
IIRC, this was done with a device called "Audiovox". In an old Kay Keyser
movie I once saw on AMC, this device was used to make a "wind " sound
effect contain a creepy voice. In fact, afte the movie was over, I recall a
litte post-credit short introducing the device and an explanation of how it
worked. This short was a part of the original movie, a kind of strange
add-on.
Steve
SoftWear Toys & Tees ([removed])
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:11:49 -0400
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Favorite radio actress
Harry Bartell asks what criteria we use to name our favorite radio
actresses. My favorite is without doubt Virginia Gregg. She is believeable
in everything I hear her do.
Her great talent is perhaps also the cause for her not being as well known
as some others. She could play hillbilly-types, cranky old women, tender
loving young women, etc. You have to listen carefully to recognize it is
she. This is in contrast to someone like Mercedes MacCambridge for example,
who when you hear her, you say, oh, there's Mercedes playing so-and-so.
That's my choice and that's my reason.
Barbara
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:11:47 -0400
From: dougdouglass@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Two Characters - Same Name
I remember Clarabelle Hornblow as the clown on "Howdy Doody" who honked
because he didn't speak. Why would a TV show use the name of a female
character from "The Lone Ranger"?
---Doug
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:12:55 -0400
From: "Dave Walter" <fredallenfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Obsolete OTR Products
In case it hasn't been mentioned yet, the manager of my local cancer---erm,
tobacco specialty shop advises me that several brands of cigarettes that
were once OTR sponsors are no longer marketed, at least by his distributor.
Among them are Old Gold (Songs by Sinatra), Fatima (Dragnet) and, of course,
Phillip Morris itself.
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:12:58 -0400
From: Elmer Standish <elmer_standish@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Links to all kinds of Pulp Magazines
This site has links to many sites tha deal with Pulp Magazines from
which many of the OTR programs were derived.
[removed]~[removed]
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:13:05 -0400
From: "Owens Pomeroy" <opomeroy@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: THE LONE RANGER IN BUFFALO?
I was always under the inpression that The Lone Ranger came out of WXYZ in
Detroit and starred only George Stevens, Earl Graiser & Brace Beamer. Now,
lo & behold we find that there was a Lone Ranger in Buffalo at WEBR and
starred John Barnett & Art Schmidt. (Was this a local version of the Network
show?).
Nowhere in any of the reference books I have mentions this series from
Buffalo. Can anyone fill in the blanks - and - are any of these
Buffalo-based shows on tape? I hope someone can solve this "mystery".
Owens Pomeroy
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:13:27 -0400
From: Elmer Standish <elmer_standish@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Yet More Pulp Magazine Links
[removed]
This site has a major collection of Pulp Magazine Links and others.
Could provide lots of background concerning many of the heroes of OTR
Programs.
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:13:36 -0400
From: "Ed Ellers" <ed_ellers@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Texaco and the Met
Bryan Wright (Vntager8io@[removed]) wrote:
As to longest sponsor of a radio series, how about Texaco's sponsorship of
the Met. Opera broacasts? Texaco has sponsored the Met. Opera broadcasts
since Dec. 1940 (according to Dunning) and still does so [removed] 61 years
later.
Well, sort of. These days Texaco lists its underwriting of the Met
broadcasts under "philanthropy" rather than as advertising. Since the
broadcasts are now carried largely by public radio stations, they can't be
sponsored in the traditional broadcasting sense. (I wasn't able to find
anything on their Web site indicating when this change took place, though it
obviously was after Texaco started the ad hoc network in 1960.)
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:13:50 -0400
From: "David H. Buswell" <dbuswell@[removed];
To: "OTR" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Two-Ton Baker
Does anyone who lived in the Chicago area in the 1940s remember a popular
local (I believe) radio pianist and vocalist named Two-Ton Baker? I recall
he was quite popular in the Midwest at the time, but there's not much, if
any, information about him. I can't the recall the station, but it might
have been WMAQ.
Dave
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:15:49 -0400
From: lynn wagar <philcolynn@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: BEA BENADERT
I AM GOING TO DO A STORY ON BEA BENADERT AND WAS
WONDERING IF EVERY ONE COULD SUPPLY ME WITH THE NAME
OF THE SHOW, ROLE NAME AND DATE OF ANY SHOWS/PROGRAMS
THAT SHE MAY HAVE DONE. MOSTLY I AM LOOKING FOR SMALL
PARTS OR GUEST SPOTS SHE MAY HAVE DONE. YOUR HELP IS
GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!
LYNN WAGAR
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:15:51 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Network compensation of stations
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 00:20:12 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
With not enough money coming in from network fees, the stations had to drop
network programs in favor of locally-sold programming -- and that, in
short, is what killed the OTR Era
I remember that. Sometime in the mid-1950s, I began to notice stations
carrying fewer network programs. At the time, I didn't know why, but I
noticed it. It also seemed to me at the time that the NBC and CBS
stations were better about carrying network programs than the ABC and
Mutual stations. I would assume, now, that this was because NBC and
CBS continued to make it more worthwhile for stations to carry network
programs.
What surprises me is that the networks, realizing that this was killing
their ability to clear their programs, let it go on. In the case of CBS,
NBC, and ABC, I suppose they didn't see money in radio any more and
wanted to focus their resources on television. ABC, particularly, was a
new network and, until the United Paramount merger went through, was
cash-strapped and trying to compete with the others in television. NBC
and CBS, as the more established networks, probably could afford to
keep radio compensation for longer.
Mutual is a stranger case. They didn't go into television, but still killed
their radio network by cutting back compensation. Being completely
committed to radio, one would have expected them to try the hardest to
keep network radio going. But, being a smaller network, they might
have had more difficulty continuing to find the cash to continue. They
must have realized they were destroying network radio by cutting
affiliate compensation, but they must have had to do it anyway because
of reduced revenue.
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed]
15 Court Square, Suite 210 lawyer@[removed]
Boston, MA 02108-2503 [removed]
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