Subject: [removed] Digest V2001 #271
From: "OldRadio Mailing Lists" <[removed]@[removed];
Date: 8/21/2001 8:15 PM
To: <[removed]@[removed];

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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2001 : Issue 271
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: Newspaper listings on CD ROM      [ OTRChris@[removed] ]
  cassettes                             [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
  radio reproductions                   [ Garry Lewis <glewis@[removed] ]
  The Mind's Eye                        [ Henry Howard <hhoward@audiotheater. ]
  Godfrey and Chesterfield              [ "Cope Robinson" <coplandr@bellsouth ]
  Speaking of Bataan and WW11---        [ Jer51473@[removed] ]
  Mr. District Attorney                 [ "Richard Pratz" <[removed]@home ]
  Lone Ranger supporting voices         [ Joe Salerno <salernoj@[removed]; ]
  Re: Harlan Stone                      [ hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed]; ]
  Basil Rathbone's Cemetery             [ "welsa" <welsa@[removed]; ]
  Newsletter from clubs                 [ vigor16@[removed] ]
  Basil Rathbone                        [ "Robert Fells" <rfells@[removed]; ]
  neuritis and neuralgia                [ Osborneam@[removed] ]
  Meredith Willson column               [ Marklambert@[removed] ]
  Re: WNET                              [ Udmacon@[removed] ]
  Basil Burial                          [ "Harold Zeigler" <hzeigler@charter- ]
  Rathbone                              [ John Henley <jhenley@[removed] ]
  Re: Station Breaks                    [ Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed] ]
  WHIZ radio?                           [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@ ]

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:26:08 -0400
From: OTRChris@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Newspaper listings on CD ROM

A few digests back someone had inquired about libraries puting their old
microfiche
of newpaper archives on CD ROM.
This it was stated would be a great resource for OTR researchers .
In the alternate I am personally aware of quite a few actual people and
organizations
that have quite a compilation of actual pages of radio listings from old
newspapers .

I have complete access to most of them . What would it take technically
speaking  to have the image taken and put on a CD ROM?   With this
information I would be happy to discuss this possibilty with owners of these
old radio pages from newspapers of days past.  Would  there be any  demand
for  this  compilation?
If it were at all successful others may want to jump on the bandwagon with
their
old newspaper listings as well.  Perhaps some of our researchers could spend
more time at home with this sort of resource than in the library ?  Who
knows??
Just an idea . One which will probably be shot down very quickly from a
technical point of view or just plain cost perspective.



-Chris

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:26:11 -0400
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  cassettes

I looked at the length of tape that had been played back:
Ăt was "wrinkled"! The rest of the tape looked normal ("unwrinkled").

It sounds like the take-up reel of the cassette is jamming.  It's also
possible that the tape has gotten sticky and is sticking to the capstan or
the roller.

Stick a pencil or something that'll engage the reel of the cassette and run
the tape through the cassette by hand.  The action should be smooth.  If it
isn't, the cassette is jammed and won't play properly until it's freed
somehow.  A coupld of ways to deal with this:  One, take the cassette and
give it a good squeeze so that the tape is sort of centered in its coil on
the reel.  This often smooths out cheap cassettes, but I don't recall if
uneven winding is a problem on Memorex.

The other thing to do is to run the tape on fast-forward all the way to the
end and then run it back again.  This sometimes frees the reels as well.

The wrinkled sections of the tape can probably be salvaged if you're
reasonably lucky.  If the cassette is operating properly, these sections
should play fairly well.  Make sure that the tape hasn't become twisted.
This occasionally happens and the only way to correct it is to pull some
tape out until both twists are visible, then rewind the tape back into the
cassette.  Do not try this in the presence of a blowing fan, an open window,
or a cat.

If the tape is sticky, I think its surface can sometimes be cleaned with
rubbing alcohol.  You'd pull the entire tape by hand through a folded
handkerchief dipped in plain old rubbing alcohol.  I haven't run into this
condition, but I've heard of it.

Then copy the cassettes onto something else.  The cassettes were probably
fine when you bought them, but they're hardly guaranteed for fourteen years:
strange things happen to organic chemicals over time.  If there's a true
archival recording medium, I have yet to find it.

M Kinsler
512 E Mulberry St. Lancaster, Ohio USA 740 687 6368
[removed]~kinsler

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:26:15 -0400
From: Garry Lewis <glewis@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  radio reproductions

Well look what I found-

[removed]

			yours tripping in the 50's,

				Garry D. Lewis
--
Remember: for every silver lining, there is a cloud!

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:26:18 -0400
From: Henry Howard <hhoward@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Mind's Eye

Begun in 1971, The Mind's Eye is now part of
SOUNDELUX AUDIO PUBLISHING

[removed]



  Henry Howard - moderator of  radiodrama@[removed]
770 923 7955                   [removed]

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:26:24 -0400
From: "Cope Robinson" <coplandr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Godfrey and Chesterfield

   On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 21:42:29 -0400
From: leemunsick@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]

On another product--Chesterfield cigarettes--did the reader know that the
slogan and the whole idea of "Buy 'em by the Carton" came not from Liggett
& Myers, or even their agency?  It came from a suggestion by Arthur
Godfrey, who introduced the slogan and pounded it for the rest of their
relationship.

That is certainly possible since Godfrey had a nice way of inventing his own
commercial language and since, as you point out, he was such a great
salesman, the sponsor was generally delighted with his commercial
innovation. But I would like your source for stating that Godfrey invented
the "Buy 'em by the carton" slogan.  It does not appear in m memory but it
was indeed a long time ago and my memory is slippery. In 1948 I was employed
by Newell-Emmett, Liggett & Myers ad agency, one of my assignments, as a
radio account executive was both Godfrey shows sponsored by Chesterfield. In
1951, I joined L&M as their advertising director and was employed by them
until I retired in 1980. That meant that I had more than a little to do with
the termination of the Godfrey shows on CBS.

 > I'm told by an L&M marketing exec. that during the time period that they
sponsored Mr. Godfrey on CBS (before HE fired THEM, because of his lung
cancer), Chesterfields also were represented by Perry Como (on NBC) and
Bing Crosby (ABC). which three lent themselves to the Chesterfield ABC
campaign ("Always Buy Chesterfields" for Arthur Godfrey, Bing Crosby and
Perry Como.  The cigarette maker at the same time also sponsored Bob Hope,
Jo Stafford and Dragnet (you may have heard of some of these).

Your source here I believe is incorrect and certainly, whoever he is, was
not working at Liggett in a marketing position at the time we mutually
dissolved our relationship with Arthur.  We didn't fire Arthur and he didn't
fire us.  Incidentally, I think you will find that the ABC "Always Buy
Chesterfield" predates the sponsorship of those three gentlemen but indeed
was extensively used during their contracts.

The President of Liggett & Myers (now the foreign-owned Liggett Group)
didn't like Godfrey.  But he loved the results of presenting his
programs:  Arthur Godfrey sold more Chesterfields than all of the others
above combined!  Now that's salesmanship!  Much more in my promised tome!

The Liggett Group is part of Brooke Group LTD which is, I believe, based in
Miami.  At the very least the remains of Liggett & Myers is not foreign
owned.  Ben Few, as I assume you know, was the President of Liggett & Myers
during the Godfrey years. He was my boss and he never expressed any
displeasure over Godfrey in my presence and since I was so close to both Few
and Godfrey, I think he would have.  And further for the record, Godfrey was
an excellent salesman for Chesterfield but it would have been impossible in
those days, if not now, to attribute specific sales to any one of those
radio shows. I will look forward to your "promised tome" and by that time
you will have discovered that the Crosby Chesterfield show was on CBS.

Cope Robinson

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:26:26 -0400
From: Jer51473@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Speaking of Bataan and WW11---

 does anyone know of the existence of broadcasts of the liberation of Camp
Cabantuan(sp) in the Phillipines in 1945? I recently bought a book from Sams
this summer entitled Ghost Soldiers. I consider myself an amateur historian
of WW11 and I knew that these Bataan survivors were liberated near the end of
the war. What shocked me was to learn that they were liberated by [removed]
Rangers via a very well planned and highly dangerous raid. One hundred
rangers were involved to free about three hundred mostly American prisoners
and usher them safely across many miles of enemy territory. To put this in
better perspective one has to consider the unbelieveable deteriated physical
condition of the prisoners. Anyway, as many books, movies , and vidios I have
been exposed to about the war, I only recently became aware of this daring
raid. All the rangers were highly decorated for valor and at the time it was
called one of the grearest feats in all our military history with good media
exposure. Since then its seems to have been forgotten and it dominated the
headlines for only a short period of time. The book suggests that events
immediately following such as Iwo Jima, Okinawa, etc. took center stage and
the raid went to the background. Only 2-3 rangers and 2 prisoners were lost
during the raid as compared to about 1000 Japanese soldiers, so you can see
this was a big deal that seems to have been lost in history. Does anyone know
of otr coverage or mention? I would love to hear the broadcasts.

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:30:26 -0400
From: "Richard Pratz" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "OTR (Plain Text Only)" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mr. District Attorney

I'd like to put a face on the voice of one of my favorite OTR actors I
haven't seen discussed in this forum. Anyone out there able to supply a link
to a picture of actor Jay Jostyn (1905-1977).....remembered by many as "Mr.
District Attorney" (1939-51)?  I've read Dunning and discovered many
interesting facts I hadn't been aware of. During my listening years, Jay
always played the lead. But I see Dwight Weist (discussed here recently)
also played the role as the fearless crusader for justice and truth as did
Raymond Edward Johnson and David Brian. As for "sidekicks", how about the
DA's secretary played by Vicki Vola and Edith Miller? Other names I
recognize are Arlene Francis as Miss Rand, and Walter Kinsella in various
police roles as well as Len Harrington, the ex-cop turned DA's investigator.
Frank Lovejoy, Paul [removed] list goes on. Inspired by the exploits of
New York's racket-busting DA of the late 30's, Thomas E. [removed] can hear
Peter Van Steeden's stirring theme in my mind as clear as day as the "voice
of the law", Maurice Franklin and/or Jay Jostyn gave the hero's credo - -
"MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY! CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE! GUARDIAN OF OUR FUNDAMENTAL
RIGHTS TO LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS! (Theme up full) (from
echo chamber)....and it shall be my duty as district attorney not only to
prosecute to the limit of the law all persons accused of crimes perpetrated
within this county but to defend with equal vigor the rights and privileges
of all its [removed]"  It always gave me goosebumps hearing that! My
hazy memory recalls the program as one of radio's greats. Anyone else feel
the same?

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:03:37 -0400
From: Joe Salerno <salernoj@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Lone Ranger supporting voices

Can someone post the names of the supporting actors on the LR and the roles
they typically portrayed?

Example - good guys - the old timer, military leader, Lincoln, Horaec
Greeley or as a bad guy - the old gang leader

the woman - might be Hispanic or Barbara (name forgotten) the saloon singer

Thunder Martin

Clarabell Hornblow

others?

Joe Salerno (who wasn't on the show)

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:04:14 -0400
From: hal stone <dualxtwo@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Harlan Stone

From: "Stanley Probstein" <cwarner3@[removed];

Enjoyed hearing you many Saturday mornings on the Archie radio program.
Thanks for the memories, Stan.

Thank you kindly, Stan. Appreciate your having been a fan of the show.

Hal(Harlan)Stone
Jughead

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:07:30 -0400
From: "welsa" <welsa@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Basil Rathbone's Cemetery

According to my info, Rathbone is indeed buried in NY.  Specifically,
Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, Westchester County, NY.  I have no idea why
he's there, but my goodness!  You should see the list of folks who are
decomposing in the same neighborhood.  Burials there include Maxwell
Anderson, James Baldwin, Bela Bartok, Ray Bloch, Joan Crawford, Alan Freed,
Judy Garland, Oscar Hammerstein, Moss Hart, Jerome Kern, Marion Lorne, Elsa
Maxwell and many more.  You can see the complete list at:
[removed];FScemeteryid=64525

Anyone know why this cemetery attracts so many notables?

Ted Meland

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:07:28 -0400
From: vigor16@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Newsletter from clubs

Hi folks:

I am looking for information about club publications focusing on OTR.  I
would like to receive club pubs that have articles and the like.  I am
not wanting to use the Digest for commercial filler, so please contact me
directly by e-mailing me.  If you have samples, please send them.  I'd be
interested in knowing how clubs are doing around the country.  I had a
club in St. Louis a few years ago.  It was hard to get folks to keep
coming back.  With all of you guys out there writing in on this page,
there must be a wealth of interest in collecting and listening to OTR out
there.    I want to try the club again this fall.  I do have questions
about club forming.  I will raise 2 of them.

1.  What do you do about people who trade dups of shows in mass
quantities.  I am talking garbage bags full.  It got so into trading that
the listen oriented members were thinking of not coming back.  I sided
with the listeners and found myself in the middle of a controversery.  We
decided to limit copying and trading.  Reason was that there are a lot of
hard working collectors out there that give us their time and share there
collection with us for a modest fee.  If we all dublicate and create more
tape generations, the hobby cannot get better.  I found most of the club
being disbanded.  We took the club home, from a community center, with 4
members on an irratic schedule and has petered out.
2.  How do you get members, as well meaning as they are, to stay quiet
during programs.  I am not talking about you enthusiastic listeners--you
have radio etticott.  (however you spell it, I saw it on radio)  I mean,
people who may not understand our lingo or the concept of "watching the
radio".  Some people do not seem to feel comfortable watching the big
speaker.  Maybe that is what 50 years of tv has given us.  (I don't
capitolize tv, because I don't capitolize radio and tv hasn't offered
much that radio didn't.  Why should tv get a better billing)  Anyway, I
know that's a lot to think about, but this hobby is my passion and
something I want to share with others.  I need some ideas on the best way
of doing it.  I have found, despite the problems, clubs to be one of the
best way of doing it.  I have one friend who says that clubs should be in
a home, because of the authenticity of listening.  Ha!  that's
ponderable.  Deric  ps. if you live in St. Louis and want to start a
club, write me directly at my e-mail address.  OTR is a joy!!!!

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:07:26 -0400
From: "Robert Fells" <rfells@[removed];
To: "old time radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Basil Rathbone

In response to an inquiry in the last Digest, Basil Rathbone is indeed
buried in a New York cemetery: Ferncliff in Hartsdale, NY, to be exact.  And
if we're going to be that picky, I should add that his remains are not
really buried, they are entombed in a mausoleum crypt.

Mr. Rathbone wrote an interesting autobiography in 1962, In and Out of
Character, which has recently been republished.  The book reveals him as
being rather humorless, at least in his old age.  For example, he was not
amused when somebody on the street would say to him, "Elementary, my dear
Watson."

Mr. Rathbone's departure from Hollywood in the summer of 1946 was quite
sudden.  He walked out on the popular "Sherlock Holmes" series that, his
autobio infers, cost him his friendship with Nigel Bruce.  He resumed his
career on the New York stage but returned to weekly radio in 1949 for the
one-season "Tales of Fatima."  Around 1952, he decided to return to playing
Sherlock Holmes on the stage.  By that time, Nigel Bruce was too ill to play
Dr. Watson and the play was, ironically, a failure.   In his last years, Mr.
Rathbone said he made a point of appearing on the Tonight Show a couple
times annually to keep his health insurance benefits in the actors' union.

Mr. Rathbone's last professional appearances were making LP recordings of
the Sherlock Holmes stories.  These were not released until after his death
in 1967.  Basil Rathbone was an intelligent man who never seemed happy with
the film roles he played.

Bob Fells

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:07:24 -0400
From: Osborneam@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  neuritis and neuralgia

In listening to an OTR show with an Anacin commercial, I wonder
why we no longer hear commercials for pain relievers that say they
remedy neuritis and neuralgia.  For that matter, I've never heard anyone
saying they suffer from these maladies!  Why weren't they just grouped in
with the common headache (which they also claimed to cure)?

Arlene Osborne

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:11:13 -0400
From: Marklambert@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Meredith Willson column

     The Des Moines Register's "Famous Iowans" column
continues; the latest with an OTR connection is on
Meredith Willson.
     If you'd like to see the column in full, as well as the
photo of Willson that accompanied the story (including
a photo of Willson with President Kennedy that did not
appear in the printed version), go to:
[removed]
     I've been in contact with the writer of these columns, attempting
to ensure that OTR experiences get mentioned.  In the Willson
column, there is a very brief mention of Willson's work at NBC
radio.
--Mark Lambert
marklambert@[removed]

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:14:16 -0400
From: Udmacon@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: WNET

NYC's PBS TV station WNET was WNTA before its conversion to Public TV. And
before that it was WATV, Newark NJ.

Bill Knowlton

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:14:14 -0400
From: "Harold Zeigler" <hzeigler@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Basil Burial

	Hi Anybody,
    Basil Rathbone's burial site is in Ardsley,[removed] A indoor  and outdoor
set up which indoors  are crypts and outdoors  is a grave yard. Basil and his
wife are in crypts which are on the top level next to the ceiling , I asked
why and was told that the price range was according to which level you were
placed, so the lowest level was highest and the highest level was the lowest
rate. Sounds like a good start for a Abbott and Costello skit.
    I have relatives living several blocks from there and I spent several
days visiting the place. They give out maps and guide books on their
"layout". If you ever get a chance to be near Ardsley I would recomend you
visit   .Like [removed] "It's a good place to visit but I would not want to live
there!". I was suprised to find so many OTR people as: Mirt and Marge (mother
and daughter) , Ona Munson, Judy Garland , Ed Sullivan and wife, Jessie
Crawford and wife, Hugh Marlowe , and so many other show people from movies
and [removed] don't know why that place was  chosen to be used to lay away so
many show people in one place.
				Till Next Time,Harold

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:14:10 -0400
From: John Henley <jhenley@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Rathbone

knight555@[removed] said,
I just finished reading an interesting article on Basil Rathbone in a
magazine that deals in old movies and was surprised to learn that his
estate was quite small, but was more surprised to learn that he is buried
in New York. Does anyone know [removed]

Not exactly, but I read his autobiography (rather a dry read,
like some of his performances) several years ago and if I recall
correctly, he was doing as much stage work as he could get at
that point in his career, and most of it was in NY as was his
apartment.  (Film work as well, but the only offers he got were
for low-budget horror films.)
The "why?" of his late-life stage work also speaks to the question
of his small estate.  Not to be disrespectful, but my understanding
is that his wife, Ouida - whom he loved dearly, to be sure - loved
to live in the high style as befits a "star's" wife - lavish parties,
expensive clothes, servants etc.  She ran through Basil's money
as fast as, if not faster than, he could earn it.  And when his film
and stage offers became fewer in his later years, Ouida saw no
reason to change her mode of living.

John Henley
jhenley@[removed]
ph  (512) 495-4112
fax (512) 495-4296

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:14:18 -0400
From: Elizabeth McLeod <lizmcl@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Station Breaks

On 8/21/01 11:30 AM OldRadio Mailing Lists wrote:

So did local broadcasters have varying rules
about identifying their station?  Does anybody know more about what the
custom of that time was?

There seemed to be quite a variation in local custom during the
pre-regulatory era of the 1920s, with some stations making a point of
IDing before every musical selection for the benefit of DX listeners who
were only interested in logging as many different stations as possible.
By the end of the decade, with the establishment of the Federal Radio
Commission, the law mandated an ID at least every fifteen minutes, unless
this would disrupt a continuous performance. The compartively few
surviving recordings of 1930s local programming seem to indicate that
stations rarely identified beyond the required breaks, and some stations
were more punctilious than others about following the rules. I was
listening recently to a 1936-vintage foriegn-language broadcast from a
tiny station in Brooklyn in which a female announcer is abruptly thrust
in with a rushed station ID as a record of Lithuanian folk music carries
on behind her. Apparently the station operator had suddenly realized that
the quarter-hour break had been missed, and wanted to make sure that the
law was carried out.

At the network level, NBC originally made provision for four IDs per
hour, at :00, :15, :30, and :45. Given that all programs on the network
were 1/2 hour or 1 hour long until 1929, the network required that the
performances be designed to stop cold at the :15, :30, and :45 mark for a
station break, with dramatic programs and speeches being the only
exceptions to the rule. During the pre-NBC era of the AT&T Red Network,
the program announcer would read the call letters of all stations
carrying the program, but this quickly became too cumbersome to manage,
and by early 1929 the announcer would verbally cue the break by simply
saying "There is a brief pause for station announcement." The
introduction of the chimes later in the year made this interruption less
intrusive -- a musical selection would end, the chimes  would be rung by
the studio announcer (five notes for Blue and seven notes for Red) with
no verbal cue, and the network would go silent for fifteen seconds to
allow the local announcer to insert the identification. The program would
then resume. This sequence would continue every fifteen minutes until the
end of the program, when the announcer would indicate the end of program
with the verbal cue "This program has reached you from the New
York/Chicago/San Francisco studios of the National Broadcasting Company"
followed by the chimes. The "studios" cue alerted the local announcer
that following the chimes the network would go silent for thirty seconds
to allow for the insertion of local continuity (spots, weather forecasts,
timechecks, etc.) before the start of the next program. Programs heard
only on the West Coast would close with "This program has reached you
from the San Francisco studios of the Pacific Coast Network of the
National Broadcasting Company." (I've never found any evidence to suggest
that the "Orange" or "Gold" networks were ever identified by those names
on-air.)

Oddly, the one exception I've discovered to the use of the
specified-location studio cue in this period was "Amos 'n' Andy," which
closed with "This program has reached you from the studios of the
National Broadcasting Company" without mentioning that it originated in
Chicago -- apparently NBC wanted to keep up the illusion of the program
originating in New York, but couldn't come right out and lie about it on
the air.

Interruption of half-hour and hour music/variety shows at the :15 and :45
points continued thru the end of 1931, but the quarter-past and
quarter-to breaks were eliminated as of 1932, leaving the top and
bottom-of-the-hour breaks intact, and gradually phasing out the use of
the "studios" system cue in favor of a simple "This is the National
Broadcasting Company" and the now-standardized three-note chimes. (Verbal
identification of Red or Blue was added to the system cue in 1936-37, and
again in 1941.) By the mid-thirties, CBS had a somewhat different ID
policy, with its break in hour shows coming closer to the :40 mark than
right on the half hour.

Elizabeth

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:14:08 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr." <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  WHIZ radio?

Brian Johnson, noting my observation that Billy Batson (Captain Marvel,
the original, aka The Big Red Cheese), was a young newscaster at WHIZ
radio, notes,

Gee, I never knew Captain Marvel worked so hard just to keep the
streets of Zanesville, Ohio safe!

Which brings up a question: Just when did WHIZ of Zanesville, OH, first
go on the air?  Before or after the comic-book station?

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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