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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2019 : Issue 24
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: Benny joke reference              [ "Laura Leibowitz" <president@jackbe ]
  Jack Barry                            [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 19-25 May  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 26 May to  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Golden Age Of American Radio on the   [ Phil Watson <howstean2@[removed] ]
  Eastern Columbia on the Jack Benny p  [ Kathy Fuller Seeley <khfuller@[removed] ]
  Re: Eastern Columbia, Broadway at 9t  [ Tom Barnett <[removed]@earthlink. ]

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Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 18:40:15 -0400
From: "Laura Leibowitz" <president@[removed];
To: "" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Benny joke reference

I do know! B But I'll let everyone else have fun answering it. B :)

--Laura Leibowitz
President, IJBFC
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Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 18:40:50 -0400
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jack Barry
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5/11

1946 - Jack Barry hosted "Juvenile Jury" on WOR radio in New York City.
The show was such a hit after five weeks on the air that it debuted on
the Mutual Broadcasting System coast to coast.

Those of us who remember the big-money quiz shows and the resulting
scandal of the 1950s remember Jack Barry as the host of "Twenty-One" and
"Tic-Tac-Dough."  Although the scandal brought down Barry's game-show
career, he eventually returned with "The Joker's Wild" and a kids'
version, "Joker! Joker!! Joker!!!"  An attempt to revive "Twenty-One" in
2000, after the success of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" showed why
the program had been rigged back in the 1950s.  In the apparently
non-rigged 2000 version, no champion stayed champion for more than one
more game, preventing the build-up of the kind of drama the 1950s show
had.  It was just boring.

--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] . 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 . Newton, MA 02459
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Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 18:41:04 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 19-25 May

 From Those Were The Days -

5/19

1921 - The first opera presented in its entirety over the radio was
broadcast by 9ZAF in Denver, CO.  The opera, "Martha", aired from the
Denver Auditorium.

5/20

1933 - "Charlie Chan" was heard for the final time on the NBC Blue radio
network after only six months on the air. Not to worry. Several revivals
of the Chinese detective were on the air for years later ...

5/22

1955 - Jack Benny signed off his last first run network radio broadcast
after a run of 23 years.  The show continued in repeats for several more
years.

5/23

1922 - The first debate to be heard on radio was broadcast on WJH in
Washington, DC. The two debaters argued about the topic of Daylight
Saving Time with the audience acting as the judge.

Joe

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Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 18:41:19 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 26 May to 1 June

 From Those Were The Days --

5/26

1940 - "Invitation to Learning" was first heard on CBS radio. The
educational radio program ran for 15 years on the network.

5/28

1931 - WOR radio in New York City premiered "The Witch's Tale". The
program was broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System (of which WOR
was the flagship station) where it aired until 1938.

5/29

1939 - "When a Girl Marries" was first heard on CBS. The serial
continued for eighteen years.

1943 - "The Million Dollar Band" was heard for the first time on NBC
radio. Charlie Spivak was the first leader of the band that featured
Barry Wood as vocalist. The unusual feature of the show was the awarding
each week of five diamond rings!

5/30

1922 - "Smilin" Ed McConnell debuted on radio, smiling and playing his
banjo. McConnell quickly became a legend in the medium.

1935 - "America's Town Meeting" was heard on radio for the first time.
The NBC program continued for 21 years, with a name change to "America's
Town Meeting of the Air".

1938 - "Joyce Jordan, Girl Intern" was first heard interning on CBS
radio.  The show became Joyce Jordan, MD, on NBC in the `40s and later
morphed into "The Brighter Day" (1948).

5/31

1943 - A comic strip came to radio as "The Adventures of Archie
Andrews". It was heard on the NBC Blue network. Archie, Veronica and the
gang stayed on radio for about ten years, moving to Mutual Broadcasting
in January 1944, and then to NBC in June 1945. The radio sitcom was
based on Bob Montana's comic strip about Archie Andrews and his teen-age
pals.

1949 - A crowd of 35,000 people paid tribute to radio personality Mary
Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, (one of the five
boroughs that make up New York City). McBride was celebrating her 15th
year in radio.

6/1

1936   The Lux Radio Theater moved from New York City to Hollywood.
Cecil B. DeMille, the program's host on the NBC Blue network, introduced
Clark Gable and Marlene Dietrich in The Legionnaire and the Lady.

1938 - The first issue of "Action Comics" was published. In its pages
was the world's first super hero, Superman. Jerry Siegel had a dream
about the baby, Moses, who was abandoned by his parents in order that
his life be saved. This dream prompted Siegel's creation of the "Man of
Steel". Artist Joe Shuster made the comic book hero come alive. The
first story, in this first issue, took place on the planet, Krypton,
where baby Kal-El was born. The infant was shot to Earth in a rocket
just before Krypton exploded.

Joe

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Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 18:44:21 -0400
From: Phil Watson <howstean2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Golden Age Of American Radio on the BBC
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BBC Radio 4 Extra aired a 3-hour programme this morning on "The Golden Age Of
American Radio", see

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Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 18:44:32 -0400
From: Kathy Fuller Seeley <khfuller@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Eastern Columbia on the Jack Benny program
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For Alan Bell, Eastern Columbia was a department store in downtown Los Angeles
with a distinctive Art-Deco building that opened in the early 1930s. They must
have advertised a lot on the radio at being at the corner of Broadway and 9th.
The building still exists today as pricey condos. I always wondered about that
too, listening to Benny shows. And now wikipedia has an answer!  Kathy

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Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 18:45:11 -0400
From: Tom Barnett <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Eastern Columbia, Broadway at 9th

Alan - I found this listing on the Internet. While not a complete description
- it might provide a clue.

"I caught a local show on Public Television tonight with Huell Howser. He's
the host of a group of shows. One is called ''California's Gold'' highliting
all of California, another called ''Visiting'' more specific to Southern
California, and tonight's called ''Downtown'' obviously focusing on downtown
LA. I don't know if it was a new one or not because they have been on for
years here, but it was a new one to me. It was all about the "Eastern
Columbia, Broadway at 9th" building. The primary attention given to the
recent conversion to a residential building with 147 lofts. It started in
1930 as the department store (referred to several times on Jack's show). The
store closed in 1957 and was then used as an office building. The restoration
is beautiful. Blue and gold terra cotta, art deco design, a huge clock with
new neon to light up the downtown skyline, new pool on the [removed]
impressive."

Tom

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