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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];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
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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