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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2020 : Issue 53
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 22-28 Nov  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  BBC Written Archives                  [ Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed] ]
  Thanks to Graeme and Sorry for Plain  [ Steve Kostelecky <doyasteve@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 08:11:50 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 22-28 November

 From Those Were The Days

11/22

1906   Delegates attending the Berlin Radiotelegraphic Conference in 
Germany voted to use SOS (...   ...) as the letters for the new 
international signal. The international use of "SOS" was ratified in 
1908. Its meaning? No, not "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" as many 
believe. Its only meaning was as a distress signal, quick to transmit by 
Morse code and not easily misread. It is not an acronym. Incidentally, 
how did SOS pads come to use the same initials? They're named after a 
patented process, Soap on Steel.

11/23

1929   Shirley Booth and Ed Gardner were married on this day. Miss Booth 
was famous for her television acting role ("Hazel"); but we remember 
when she and her husband played Miss Duffy and Archie on Duffy's Tavern.

1958   One of the last drama programs on radio debuted. It was unusual 
in that it followed the TV show of the same name. Have Gun Will Travel 
was broadcast on CBS and starred John Dehner as Paladin.

11/24

1937   Music from the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, Massachusetts was 
beamed coast to coast on NBC. The special guests during this broadcast 
were Glenn Miller and his orchestra.

11/25

1920   The first play by play coverage of a football game was broadcast 
by WTAW in College Station, TX. Texas University beat the Aggies of 
Texas A&M, 7 3.

1944   CBS presented The FBI in Peace and War for the first time. It 
became one of the longest running crime shows on radio lasting 14 years.

1945   A spoof of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, [removed] Pinafore, was 
broadcast on The Fred Allen Show. The spoof was titled, The Brooklyn 
Pinafore. Joining actress Shirley Booth in the skit was baseball great 
Leo 'The Lip' Durocher.

1960   Radio actors were put out of work when CBS axed five serials 
(soap operas) from the airwaves. We said so long to The Second Mrs. 
Burton (after 14 years), Young Doctor Malone, Whispering Streets (after 
8 years), Right to Happiness (after 21 years) and Ma Perkins (after 27
wonderful years.) In 1940, the high point for these radio programs, 
there were as many as 45 on the air each day.

11/26

1945 - "Bride and Groom" debuted on the ABC network. It is estimated 
that 1,000 newly-wed couples were interviewed on the program before it 
left the airwaves in 1950.

11/27

1930   Broadcasting from "...the little theatre off Times Square," 
according to the show's introduction, The First Nighter was first heard. 
The program, which actually originated from Chicago, then from 
Hollywood, aired for 23 years and featured dramas and comedies.

11/28

1932   Groucho Marx performed on radio for the first time.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 13:18:36 +0000 (UTC)
From: Graeme Stevenson <graemeotr@[removed];
To: OTR Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: BBC Written Archives

X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain

Interesting article about BBC Written Archives, looks like they plan in the future to start making files available online for research:
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Cheers ! Graeme

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 21:25:22 +0000 (UTC)
From: Steve Kostelecky <doyasteve@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Thanks to Graeme and Sorry for Plain Text mixup

I'll look into the info you sent--many thanks, Graeme.

And, Charlie, I'll have to remember to use plain text from now [removed] hope this works.

Best,
Steve

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