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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2018 : Issue 23
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Largest radio audience                [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
  JFK audio                             [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 18-24 Mar  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 20:16:38 -0400
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
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Subject:  Largest radio audience

1937   Fred Allen and Jack Benny met in one of the biggest publicity
gags ever. It was called, "The Battle of the Century."  The two
comedians locked horns in the ballroom of the Hotel Pierre, exchanging
torrid insults that were heard by the second largest audience in the
history of radio.

OK, I'll bite, what was the largest audience in the history of radio?

I'm guessing it may have been the Clay-Liston fight in 1964, but that's
just a guess.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed] . 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 . Newton, MA 02459
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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 20:18:46 -0400
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
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Subject:  JFK audio
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 Hi. I thought this might be of passing interest:

JFK's lost speech brought to life
 Audio technology was used to recreate JFK's voice so that the 55-year-old
speech could be heard.

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Cheers ! Graeme

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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 20:18:57 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 18-24 March

 From Those Were The Days

3/18

1940   Light of the World was first heard on NBC. The soap opera was
unique in that it featured the Bible as the center of the story line.

3/21

1924   The voice of Lowell Thomas was first heard on radio. Thomas was
heard talking about "Man's first flight around the world", on KDKA in
Pittsburgh, PA.

3/22

1948   The Voice of Firestone was one of the first commercial radio
programs to be carried simultaneously on both AM and FM radio stations.

3/23

1940   Truth or Consequences was first heard on radio. Ralph Edwards
produced and hosted the [removed] The show was originally heard on only
four CBS stations. Later, NBC picked up the show where it eventually
became the most popular of all radio audience-participation stunt shows.

3/24

1932   Belle Baker hosted a radio variety show from a moving train ... a
first for radio broadcasting. The program originated from a Baltimore
and Ohio train that chugged its way around the New York area. The
broadcast was heard on WABC in New York City.

1935   After a year as a local show from New York City, Major Bowes'
Original Amateur Hour was heard on the entire NBC network. The show
stayed on the air for 17 years. Later, Ted Mack took over for Bowes and
made the move from radio to television.

Joe

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