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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2016 : Issue 50
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Stan Freberg                          [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
  New old radio programs from WTIC Har  [ "scherago" <scherago@[removed]; ]

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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:58:59 -0400
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Stan Freberg

Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 13:17:26 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];

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.

By 1957, it was certainly true that television had largely taken over,
and not much was on network radio besides the news.  Freberg had an
uphill battle trying to compete with TV, but I noticed (though I was 12
at the time) that there was no promotion of Freberg's show -- or any
other radio show -- anywhere.  I think one reason why otr died was that
promotion stopped totally.  People won't listen to a show if they don't
know about it.  I happened to discover it because it was the summer
replacement for Jack Benny reruns, which I listened to regularly.
Fortunately, the best routines from Stan Freberg's show were later
issued as an LP album.

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A. Joseph Ross, [removed]| 92 State Street| Suite 700 | Boston, MA 02109-2004
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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:59:07 -0400
From: "scherago" <scherago@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  New old radio programs from WTIC Hartford

We've found some additional WTIC programs from the 1960s and they are
available at [removed]

First, the 38th anniversary program remembering the 1920's:
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Then five programs written and produced by Paul Gionfriddo:
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Hartford - All America City - Broadcast: May 6, 1962

Silas Deane, Improbable Hero - narrated by the distinguished actor
Robert Vaughn

The Last Stop - The story of the New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad and its bleak financial future

Date with Decision (School Dropouts)

The Oscar and Ed Begley (WTIC Alum)

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