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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2020 : Issue 34
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      This week in radio history 20-26 Sep  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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    Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 07:04:46 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject: This week in radio history 20-26 September

     From Those Were The Days

    9/20

    1921   KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started one of the first daily
    radio newscasts in the country. The broadcast came from the city desk of
    The Pittsburgh Post.

    1953   Jimmy Stewart debuted in The Six Shooter on NBC. He played Britt
    Ponset on the Western.

    9/21

    1946   After being tested on a regional basis, The Second Mrs. Burton
    was heard for the first time on the entire CBS network. The Second Mrs.
    Burton fared very well, having a relationship with the network for 14 years.

    1948   The serial Life With Luigi debuted on CBS. Luigi Basko was played
    by J. Carroll Naish. Naish, an Irish American, became typecast as an
    Italian immigrant, and went on to play the same role in the TV version
    in 1952.

    9/22

    1943   Singer Kate Smith finished her War Bond radio appeal. For 13
    continuous hours Smith had stayed on the air, collecting a whopping $39
    million dollars in bond pledges.  ($584,784,381 in 2019 dollars.)

    1957   The CBS Radio Workshop was silenced after 18 months of what the
    critics said was "ingenious radio programming."

    9/24

    1942   Glenn Miller ended his Moonlight Serenade series on CBS. It was
    time for Miller to go to war. The show had aired three times a week for
    Chesterfield Cigarettes.

    9/25

    1933   America's favorite cowboy, Tom Mix, was heard for the first time
    on NBC. The Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters continued on the air until
    June 1950.

    Joe
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