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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2014 : Issue 48
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


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  This week in radio history 25-31 May  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 16:36:52 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
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Subject:  This week in radio history 25-31 May

5/26

1940 - "Invitation to Learning" was first heard on CBS radio. The
educational radio program ran for 15 years on the network.

5/28

1931 - WOR radio in New York City premiered "The Witch's Tale". The
program was broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System (of which WOR
was the flagship station) where it aired until 1938.

5/29

1939 - "When a Girl Marries" was first heard on CBS. The serial
continued for eighteen years.

1943 - "The Million Dollar Band" was heard for the first time on NBC
radio. Charlie Spivak was the first leader of the band that featured
Barry Wood as vocalist. The unusual feature of the show was the awarding
each week of five diamond rings!

5/30

1922 - "Smilin" Ed McConnell debuted on radio, smiling and playing his
banjo. McConnell quickly became a legend in the medium.

1935 - "America's Town Meeting" was heard on radio for the first time.
The NBC program continued for 21 years, with a name change to "America's
Town Meeting of the Air".

1938 - "Joyce Jordan, Girl Intern" was first heard interning on CBS
radio.  The show became Joyce Jordan, MD, on NBC in the '40s and later
morphed into "The Brighter Day" (1948).

5/31

1943 - A comic strip came to radio as "The Adventures of Archie
Andrews". It was heard on the NBC Blue network. Archie, Veronica and the
gang stayed on radio for about ten years, moving to Mutual Broadcasting
in January 1944, and then to NBC in June 1945. The radio sitcom was
based on Bob Montan's comic strip about Archie Andrews and his teen-age
pals.

1949 - A crowd of 35,000 people paid tribute to radio personality Mary
Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, (one of the five
boroughs that make up New York City). McBride was celebrating her 15th
year in radio.

Joe

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