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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2018 : Issue 39
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 24-30 Jun [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 1-7 July [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 7-14 July [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
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Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 14:53:33 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 24-30 June
From Those Were The Days
6/24
1960 The Romance of Helen Trent was heard for the last time. Helen and
her boy toy, Gil Whitney, were about to be married, but the loving
couple never made it to the altar just in case the show would ever be
renewed. Helen Trent and her romance aired for 27 years a total of
7,222 episodes on CBS.
6/25
1942 The first broadcast of It Pays to Be Ignorant was aired on the
Mutual Broadcasting System.
6/26
1933 The Kraft Music Hall debuted.
1949 Fred Allen broadcast his final program, though he continued for
several years to guest on other shows.
6/27
1943 The Dreft Star Playhouse debuted on NBC. Jane Wyman starred in
the first broadcast, titled Bachelor Mother.
1944 The Alan Young Show debuted on NBC. It was a summer replacement
for the popular Eddie Cantor. The show became a regular in the fall NBC
lineup.
6/28
1940 As a summer replacement for blind piano virtuoso Alec Templeton,
Quiz Kids was first heard. The show continued on NBC until 1953.
6/29
1932 Vic and Sade debuted on the NBC Blue network this day.
1947 Radio's show with a heart made its debut. Strike It Rich became a
favorite on CBS. Todd Russell was the original host. Warren Hull took
over a few years later.
1951 Bill Stern did his last 15 minute program of sports features for
NBC. Stern had been with NBC for 14 years. He later moved to the Mutual
Broadcasting System to finish out an illustrious sportscasting career.
6/30
1921 Documents were signed forming the Radio Corporation of America,
better known as RCA. RCA soon rivaled its main competitor, General
Electric (GE).
Joe
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Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 14:53:39 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 1-7 July
From Those Were The Days
7/1
1934 The Federal Communications Commission, as mandated in the
Communications Act of 1934, replaced the Federal Radio Commission as the
regulator of broadcasting in the United States.
7/2
1939 The Aldrich Family debuted on NBC.
1946 CBS signed Arthur Godfrey to do a weekly nighttime show.
1951 NBC presented Bob and Ray (Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding) on a
network show.
7/3
1939 Chic Young's comic strip character, Blondie was first heard on CBS.
1940 The legendary comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello debuted
with their network show on NBC.
1945 NBC gave the comedian/pianist Victor Borge his own the summer
replacement show for Fibber McGee and Molly. He had been heard a few
years earlier as a semi regular on NBC's "Kraft Music Hall" with Bing
Crosby.
7/4
1943 The Rhythm Boys, Bing Crosby, Al Rinker and Harry Barris, were
reunited for the first time since the 1930s on Paul Whiteman Presents on
NBC.
1951 Jack Webb, along with Dragnet, also did a summer show that of
Pete Kelly. Pete Kelly's Blues, a crime drama, was the summer
replacement on NBC for Halls of Ivy (with Ronald Colman and Benita Hume).
7/5
1943 The Adventures of Nero Wolfe debuted on the NBC Blue network.
Nero Wolfe was "the detective genius who rates the knife and fork the
greatest tools ever invented by man." The 'gargantuan gourmet' continued
on the air until 1951.
1948 My Favorite Husband, with Lucille Ball, became the gifted
redhead's first regular radio program on CBS. Richard Denning co
starred with Lucy as "two people who live together and like it." (Which
today has a different [removed] -ed)
1951 The Silver Eagle debuted on ABC as a entry into radio's action
adventure lineup. Jim Ameche starred as Jim West.
7/6
1943 Judy Canova, the 'Queen of the Hillbillies', began a weekly
comedy show on CBS.
1947 A hidden microphone eavesdropped on unsuspecting people for the
first time this night, as Candid Microphone hit the ABC airwaves.
7/7
1927 Christopher Stone becomes the first British 'disc jockey' when
he plays records for the BBC.
From Those Were The Days
1920 A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time
on a [removed] Navy airplane near Norfolk, Virginia.
1943 Flashgun Casey was heard on radio. The name of the program had
several name changes,
Casey, Press Photographer, Crime Photographer and ended up as Casey,
Crime Photographer.
Joe
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Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 14:53:46 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 7-14 July
From Those Were The Days
7/8
1950 Joel McCrea appeared in the lead role of Tales of the Texas
Rangers on NBC.
7/11
1944 The Man Called X, starring Herbert Marshall, debuted on CBS.
7/12
1934 The first appointments to the newly created Federal
Communications Commission were made. The governing body of the American
broadcasting industry was first served by seven men named as commissioners.
1946 The Adventures of Sam Spade was heard on ABC for the first time.
7/14
1957 Funnyman Stan Freberg debuted a new weekly comedy program on CBS.
The Freberg show only lasted a short time and that newfangled
contraption, television, was blamed for the show's quick demise.
Joe
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