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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2017 : Issue 48
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
College Quiz Bowl [ Archie <y_know_archie@[removed]; ]
the new Shadow episodes [ John Olsen <jrolsen2@[removed]; ]
Stan Freberg [ [removed]@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:04:01 -0400
From: Archie <y_know_archie@[removed];
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Subject: College Quiz Bowl
I was listening to "College Quiz Bowl" this afternoon from NBC in 1954. The
competing college was hosted by WTIC.
The college students of the 50s were so much broader educated than later
generations. I consider myself well educated but these students knew so much
classical stuff and poetry that I don't think my generation were exposed to.
I was born in 1951.
Archie
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 02:02:43 -0400
From: John Olsen <jrolsen2@[removed];
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Subject: the new Shadow episodes
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If you're curious about the new CD set of The Shadow released by Radio
Spirits, I've gotten them, listened to them, and have micro-reviews of them
that will be posted to my blog Friday morning, July 14th.
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Shadow episodes, eleven of which are newly circulated "lost" episodes!
John
See the pulpy side of things. Check out That's Pulp!
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 01:58:02 -0400
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Subject: Stan Freberg
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.
There was a lot more to it than that. The networks had changed the
method of affiliate compensation, which meant that local stations could
make more money with a local DJ playing records than by carrying network
shows. That meant that most affiliates didn't really want to carry
anything but the network news. I wonder how many CBS affiliates
actually carried Freberg's show. I heard it because WEEI, the CBS
station in Boston at the time, was CBS owned and operated.
And I don't remember any promotion of Freberg's show, except maybe
program announcements on the station. No newspaper ads, no promotion on
television. People don't usually listen to shows they don't know about,
unless they happen to stumble on them. With some good ads, it could
have been appointment radio.
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A. Joseph Ross, [removed] | 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 | Newton, MA 02459
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