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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2017 : Issue 77
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 2-9 Decem  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  A Strange OTR Coincidence             [ <skallisjr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 15:17:15 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 2-9 December

12/3

1928   The first broadcast of The Voice of Firestone was heard. The
program aired each Monday evening at 8. The Voice of Firestone became a
hallmark in radio broadcasting. It kept its same night, time (in 1931
the start time changed to 8:30) and sponsor for its entire run.
Beginning on September 5, 1949, the program of classical and
semi-classical music was also seen on television.

12/4

1932   "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the
ships at sea. Let's go to press!" The Jergens Journal aka The Walter
Winchell Show and later, Kaiser Frazer News was first heard on the NBC
Blue network. Winchell kept that gossip show going on the radio for 23
years. It was sponsored at first by Jergens lotion and, later, by Dryad
deodorant, Kaiser Frazer cars and Richard Hudnut shampoo.

1933   One of America's great radio shows made the leap to the big time.
Ma Perkins moved from WLW in Cincinnati, OH to the NBC Red network. The
show proved to be so popular that it was later carried on both CBS and NBC.

12/5

1936   Bing Crosby took over as host of The Kraft Music Hall. Jimmy
Dorsey (who would later be host, himself) led the Kraft Orchestra.

1952   Mutual broadcast The Green Hornet for the final time. The show
left the air after 15 years on Mutual, NBC and ABC.

12/6

1923   The first presidential address to be carried on radio was
broadcast from Washington, DC. President Calvin Coolidge addressed a
joint session of the [removed] Congress.

12/7

1948 - NBC presented the "Horace Heidt Youth Opportunity Program" for
the first time. The talent show earned Dick Contino, an accordionist,
the $5,000 prize ($50,649 in 2016 dollars) as the program's first
national winner. Over the years Heidt gave some big stars their big
starts: Frankie Carle, Gordon MacRae, the King Sisters, Alvino Rey, Ken
Berry, Frank DeVol, Dick Contino, Al Hirt, Fred Lowrey, Ronnie Kemper,
Larry Cotton, Donna and her Don Juans, Ollie O'Toole and many others.

12/9

1940   The Longines Watch Company signed for the first FM radio
advertising contract with experimental station W2XOR in New York City.
The ads ran for 26 weeks and promoted the Longines time signals.

Joe

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Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 15:17:45 -0500
From: <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  A Strange OTR Coincidence

In the 1941 Autumn season of the /Captain Midnight/ radio serial, the
story related how two members of Captain Midnight's crew were captured
and held prisoner by agents of an archcriminal, The Barracuda, who'd
solid connection with Japanese forces.  When Captain Midnight, who hadn't
been captured, assembled a rescue mission, he did more than regain his
team members.  He inspected the temporarily abandoned headquarters, he
found an oilskin pouch, which contained plans for an attack on Pearl
Harbor.
This discovery was made weeks before the historic attack on Pearl Harbor.
 (The story is preserved in /Radio's Captain Midnight:The Wartime
Biography/

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Stephen Kallis, Jr.

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