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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2020 : Issue 34
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


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  This week in radio history 20-26 Sep  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 07:04:46 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
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Subject: This week in radio history 20-26 September

 From Those Were The Days

9/20

1921   KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started one of the first daily 
radio newscasts in the country. The broadcast came from the city desk of 
The Pittsburgh Post.

1953   Jimmy Stewart debuted in The Six Shooter on NBC. He played Britt 
Ponset on the Western.

9/21

1946   After being tested on a regional basis, The Second Mrs. Burton 
was heard for the first time on the entire CBS network. The Second Mrs. 
Burton fared very well, having a relationship with the network for 14 years.

1948   The serial Life With Luigi debuted on CBS. Luigi Basko was played 
by J. Carroll Naish. Naish, an Irish American, became typecast as an 
Italian immigrant, and went on to play the same role in the TV version 
in 1952.

9/22

1943   Singer Kate Smith finished her War Bond radio appeal. For 13 
continuous hours Smith had stayed on the air, collecting a whopping $39 
million dollars in bond pledges.  ($584,784,381 in 2019 dollars.)

1957   The CBS Radio Workshop was silenced after 18 months of what the 
critics said was "ingenious radio programming."

9/24

1942   Glenn Miller ended his Moonlight Serenade series on CBS. It was 
time for Miller to go to war. The show had aired three times a week for 
Chesterfield Cigarettes.

9/25

1933   America's favorite cowboy, Tom Mix, was heard for the first time 
on NBC. The Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters continued on the air until 
June 1950.

Joe
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