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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2016 : Issue 7
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Web-based MP3 software that lets you  [ David Kindred <david@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 24-30 Jan  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Programs from a specific [removed]      [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]

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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:10:16 -0400
From: David Kindred <david@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Web-based MP3 software that lets you mark what
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Hello fellow digesters,

I have a techie question. Has anyone found some web-based software that
would let maintain your library of MP3 shows and mark the ones you've
heard?

My grandiose plan is to setup an MP3 server (could even run from a
Raspberry Pi) that I'd control via tablet that would transmit the shows
over a household AM transmitter so I could enjoy the old shows through a
tube-based old radio. There's just nothing like artificial nostalgia!

I'm hoping a solution exists, because I'm too lazy to code my own. :-)

Warmest regards to all,

--David

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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:11:13 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 24-30 January

 From Those Were The Days

1/24

1930   Ben Bernie (Benjamin Anzelwitz) began a weekly remote broadcast
from the lovely Roosevelt Hotel in NYC.

1942   Abie's Irish Rose was first heard on NBC this day replacing
Knickerbocker Playhouse. The program was based on the smash play from
Broadway that ran for nearly 2,000 performances. Sydney Smith played the
part of Abie. Rosemary Murphy was played by Betty Winkler.

1/25

1937   NBC presented the first broadcast of The Guiding Light.

1944   The character, a black maid named Beulah and played by a white
man, Marlin Hurt, aired for the first time on Fibber McGee and Molly.
The spinoff, Beulah, became a radio series in 1945.

1/26

1947   The Greatest Story Ever Told was first heard on ABC.

1/27

1931 - NBC radio introduced listeners to "Clara, Lu 'n' Em" on its Blue
network (later, ABC radio). The show became the first daytime radio
serial when it was moved from its original nighttime slot.

1948 - Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first
magnetic wire recorder. The "Wireway" machine with a built-in oscillator
sold for $[removed] ($1,487 in 2015 dollars).

1956 - The "CBS Radio Workshop" was heard for the first time. This first
broadcast featured Aldous Huxley narrating his classic, "Brave New World".

1/28

1940 Beat the Band made its debut on NBC, with the Ted Weems band. Beat
the Band was where listeners' questions were selected in the hopes of
stumping the band. If a listener's question was chosen, he or she
received $10 ($170 in 2015 dollars ) The questions were posed as
riddles: What song title tells you what Cinderella might have said if
she awoke one morning and found that her foot had grown too large for
her glass slipper? If the band played the correct musical answer, Where
Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?, the listener lost.

When Raleigh cigarettes sponsored Beat the Band, the listener who beat
the band won $50 ($853 in 2015 dollars) and two cartons of cigarettes
... Raleigh's, of course. When the sponsor changed to General Mill's Kix
cereal, if the listener beat the band, he/she won twenty bucks ($341 in
2015 dollars ) and a case of Kix cereal.

1934   As a result of a compliment paid on this day, by Walter Winchell,
in his newspaper column; a local disc jockey began receiving several
offers from talent scouts and producers. The DJ became known as the
Redhead, adored by thousands in Washington, DC and, later, by millions
across the country on CBS radio and TV. His trademark (strumming a
ukulele and delivering down home patter) endeared him to fans for many
years. We remember the broadcasting legend, Arthur Godfrey. "I wanna go
back to my little grass [removed]"

1/30

1933    The Lone Ranger was heard for the first time.

Joe

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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:11:18 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Programs from a specific [removed]

Folks;

   Kate and I are working on new episodes of SummersTime (the OTR program we
host on [removed] - check [removed] for archived episodes)
and we're planning a special program for a few months from now, but we need
as many shows that aired on the Ides of March (that's the 15th) in 1956 as
possible. If you know of any or have any lying around your collection (we do
have the fourth episode of YTJD's The Clinton Matter), please drop me a note
- thanks!

   (Stewart Wright, he of researching extrordinare, did send me a clipping of
the programs scheduled to be broadcast on that date; I also have a copy of
the Odgensberg Journal from that date with radio and TV scheduled programming
in it. If anyone wants a copy, let me know.)

         Charlie

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