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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2018 : Issue 16
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 18-24 Feb  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Eddie Anderson                        [ Martin Fass <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
  TV to radio                           [ Jack French <otrpiano@[removed]; ]
  NBC restrictions on the use of recor  [ gnrocky@[removed] ]

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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 13:38:21 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 18-24 February

2/18

1949   Yours Truly Johnny Dollar debuted on CBS. The program starred
Charles Russell as the insurance investigator with the action packed
expense account.

2/19

1922   Ed Wynn became the first big name vaudeville talent to sign on as
a radio talent. Previously, top talent had not considered radio a
respectable medium.

2/22

1954   ABC radio's popular Breakfast Club, program with longtime host,
Don McNeill, was simulcast on TV beginning this day. The telecast of the
show was a bomb, but the radio program went on as one of the longest
running programs on the air.  (I saw a kinoscope of that show and
basically it was the radio show with a camera pointed at the cast.
Hmmm, come to think of it, it wasn't much different from today's video
podcasts. --ed)

2/23

1927   [removed] President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill into law that
created the Federal Radio Commission, "to bring order out of this
terrible chaos." The president was speaking, of course, of the nation's
then unregulated radio stations. The commission assigned frequencies,
hours of operation and power allocations for radio broadcasters across
the [removed] The name was changed to the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) on July 1, 1934.

2/24

1942     It was an historic day in radio broadcasting, as the Voice of
America (VOA) signed on for the first time on this day.

Joe

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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 13:38:36 -0500
From: Martin Fass <watchstop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Eddie Anderson

The Internet tells us that Rochester lived until 1977.  I assume this means
he survived the 1958 heart attack, and brought us many more good laughs.

--Martin Fass

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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 13:39:52 -0500
From: Jack French <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  TV to radio

A. Joseph Ross poses the question "Was Wild Bill Hickok one of the handful of
TV shows that predated the radio version?"

Hard to say.  While we know the radio version debuted on 5-27-51, available
sources indicate the TV program (full title The Adventures of Wild Bill
Hickok) was only released for syndication in April 1951 but when local
stations began airing it, is inconclusive. It would not reach network airing
until 1955.  Odds are that the radio and TV versions were designed to air
concurrently, as were:  Two For the Money, Meet Mr. McNutley, and the George
Gobel Show.

TV shows that actually spawned a radio version later include:  My Little
Margie, Tom Corbett Space Cadet, Tales of Tomorrow, What's My Line, Howdy
Doody, and Have Gun Will Travel. Hopalong Cassidy aired first on TV and six
months later on radio, but the radio version was recorded years before the
the TV production started.

Adventures of Rin Tin Tin debuted on TV on 10-15-54 and a radio version began
on 1-2-55. However that famous dog had an earlier radio program 1930-34, so
technically it pre-dated the TV version.

Jack French
Metro Washington OTR Club

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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 13:40:06 -0500
From: gnrocky@[removed]
To: discussion digest Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  NBC restrictions on the use of recorded sound
 effects

I'm working on a project involving a weekly network radio series that aired
on the NBC network (both Red and Blue at different times) from 1929 through
1931. I know this radio series was denied the ability to use recorded sound
effects, and had to come up with very involved and ingenious ways to create
satisfactory effects during live broadcasts. It seems NBC (and perhaps other
networks) banned the use of recorded audio, with but few exceptions, until
well into the 1930s. While this issue touches on the restriction against
re-airing recordings of entire performances that might be used in a later
time zone, or for syndication, I'm particularly interested in the reasoning
behind NBC's ban on recorded sound effects.

While I'd be grateful for explanations about this, what I'd really like help
with is locating any published material that explains all of it. Are there
any books, articles, or dissertations that I could obtain that specifically
address the concerns with recorded sound effects in the time frame of
1929-1931? I will want to provide citations for whatever sources I'm drawing
from, so I'd be especially grateful to learn of published sources on this
topic. I've reviewed a copy of "Radio Sound Effects" by Creamer and Hoffman
(1945), but it did not say much about restrictions on recorded material in
the time frame I'm interested in.

Thanks in advance!

Scott Tanner

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