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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2020 : Issue 22
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 12-18 Jul  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Bill Stern and Bill Kern              [ <rmcblc@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 19-25 Jul  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  [removed]                       [ Chuck Hofstetter <chashof@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 26 July t  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 2-8 Augus  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  what's in a name?                     [ <rmcblc@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 17:10:24 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 12-18 July

 From Those Were The Days

7/12

1934   The first appointments to the newly created Federal
Communications Commission were made. The governing body of the American
broadcasting industry was first served by seven men named as commissioners.

1946   The Adventures of Sam Spade was heard on ABC for the first time.

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.

7/16

1934   NBC Red network premiered the musical drama, Dreams Come True. It
was a show about baritone singer Barry McKinley and his novelist
sweetheart.

7/18

1936   The critically acclaimed, experimental theatre of the air, The
Columbia Workshop, debuted on CBS.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 17:10:35 -0400
From: <rmcblc@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Bill Stern and Bill Kern

The comment about Bill Stern reminds me of my favorite scene in
Woody Allen's "Radio Days, and the portrayal of broadcaster "Bill
Kern," who reported the story of sports legend "Kirby Kyle" --
the baseball player from Tennessee who accidentally shot himself
while chasing a rabbit and his leg had to be amputated.

But Kyle made a comeback, learning to keep his balance despite a
peg leg. Kern's report didn't end there -- the next winter
another accident cost Kyle an arm, though not his pitching arm,
and so he pitched that season. But wait! There's more. The next
off-season, Kern related, Kyle was duck hunting when his gun
misfired and blinded him. And still, Kyle returned to the mound.
Then, if you can believe it, a worse tragedy struck -- Kyle was
run over by a truck and killed. But not so fast, Kern said, for
the next season, Kyle "won 18 games in the Big League in the
sky!"

I was laughing so hard in the theater because I knew Kern was
Stern. Others in the audience -- I wondered if they were laughing
just because of the silliness of it all.

Of course, Allen had taken part of a true-life story and
embellished it. Monty Stratton was a Texas baseball player who
pitched for the Chicago White Sox. He was hunting for rabbits in
late November of 1938 when he fell, and his holstered pistol
discharged, causing the eventual amputation of his right leg.
Fitted with a prosthetic leg, Stratton managed to play in the
minor leagues from 1946 to 1953. His experience was told in the
1949 movie, "The Stratton Story," starring Jimmy Stewart as
Stratton.

Bob Cockrum
Temple, Texas

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Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 17:11:18 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 19-25 July

 From Those Were The Days

7/19

1942   The Seventh Symphony, by Shastakovich, was performed for the
first time in the United States by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony
Orchestra.

1948    Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden and Gale Gordon, debuted on
CBS this day.

7/20

1935   NBC debuted G men. The show was later renamed Gang Busters.

7/25

1933   The first broadcast of The Romance of Helen Trent was heard. The
show continued on the air for 7,222 episodes and 27 years. Amazingly,
Helen stayed 35 years of age throughout the entire series. The show used
two Helen Trents over the years. The first Helen was played by
Virginia Clark (for 11 years) and the second by Julie Stevens (for 16
years).

1933   During his fourth Fireside Chat, [removed] President Franklin D.
Roosevelt showed why the homey, warm, comfortable discussion was,
indeed, a fireside chat. The President stopped the discussion on the air
and asked for a glass of water, which he then sipped. Newsman Robert
Trout is credited with coming up with the name, Fireside Chat, because
of real moments like this.

1943   Foreign Assignment, was first heard on Mutual. The title role of
Brian Berry was played by Jay Jostyn, who also starred in another
popular radio drama, Mr. District Attorney.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 17:11:35 -0400
From: Chuck Hofstetter <chashof@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  [removed]

Does anyone know what happened to [removed]
Really enjoyed the show but URL now goes to never-never land.

Chuck Hofstetter
chashof@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 17:11:45 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 26 July to 1 August

 From Those Were The Days

7/30

1937   The American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA) was organized. It
was part of the American Federation of Labor. The union was for all
radio performers except musicians. The union later became The American
Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) to include TV folk,
as well.

1942   Stage Door Canteen was first heard on CBS. The show was broadcast
from New York City and 500 servicemen were entertained each week by
celebrities who freely donated their time for the war effort.

7/31

1933    Listeners turned up the radio on this day to hear the announcer
introduce "Jack Armstrong, the All American Boy!" The show was one of
the longest running adventure programs on radio, continuing until 1951.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 17:11:57 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 2-8 August

 From Those Were The Days =
8/4

1921   The first tennis match on radio was broadcast on KDKA in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This was a natural since KDKA was the first
commercial radio station in the United States. Within eight months the
powers that be figured out that sports on radio would bring in big sales
revenues. And so, the Davis Cup match between Great Britain and
Australia was aired on the radio; but much to the wonderment of KDKA's
listeners. Tennis anyone? On radio? It rates right up there with radio
wrestling or, maybe, [removed]

1927   Station 2XAG, later named WGY, the General Electric station in
Schenectady, NY, began experimental operations from a 100,000 watt
transmitter. Later, the FCC regulated the power of AM radio stations to
not exceed 50,000 watts on 'clear channels' (where few, if any, stations
would cause interference with each other).

1940   Crime Doctor introduced a new kind of radio hero to audiences.
The CBS program presented Dr. Benjamin Ordway, the show's main
character, who was a victim of amnesia. He once was a criminal, but got
hit on the head, and suddenly began to work as a crime fighter. Nice twist.

8/5

1921   KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA did the first play by play broadcast of a
baseball game. Harold Arlin described the action as the Pirates beat
Philadelphia 8 5.

1935   Backstage Wife was first aired, on MBS.

8/6

1928   One of radio's first serials, Real Folks, debuted on NBC.

1939   After becoming a success with Ben Bernie on network radio, Dinah
Shore started her own show on the NBC Blue network. Dinah sang every
Sunday evening.

8/7

1949   Martin Kane, Private Eye was first heard on Mutual. William
Gargan starred on the Sunday afternoon program.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 17:12:05 -0400
From: <rmcblc@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  what's in a name?

I'm wondering if anyone has seen an original Great Gildersleeve
script or other material of the era that establishes the maid's
name as Birdie, which is how I've seen it countless times in
reference books. In looking at birth and death records of
ordinary folk, I also have seen the name Bertie for women,
perhaps the feminine of Bert. Just curious. This is another one
of those, is s it "Hi-oh, Silver, away!" or "Hi-yo, Silver,
away!" questions.

Bob Cockrum
Temple, Texas

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