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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2016 : Issue 34
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
This week in radio history 1-8 May [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Gangbusters Television [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]
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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 13:18:09 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 1-8 May
From Those Were The Days
5/1
1931 Singer Kate Smith began her long and illustrious radio career
with CBS on this, her birthday. The 22 year old Smith started out with
no sponsors and a paycheck of just $10 a week ($157 in 2015 dollars) for
the nationally broadcast daily program. However, within 30 days, her
salary increased to a more respectable $1,500 a week ($23,626 in 2015
dollars).
5/5
1935 The program, Rhythm at Eight, made its debut. The star of the
show was 24 year old Ethel Merman. Though Merman would become a legend
years later, she didn't fare so well on radio. Her show was taken off
the air after 13 weeks and Miss Merman returned to her first love, Broadway.
5/6
1937 A student of history, a broadcaster or anyone interested in news
coverage, will remember this day and the words of NBC's Herbert
Morrison. "Oh, the humanities!" Morrison's emotion filled historic
broadcast of the explosion of the dirigible, Hindenburg at Lakehurst,
NJ, became the first recorded coast to coast broadcast as it was carried
on both the NBC Red and NBC Blue networks from New York City.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 13:19:37 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Gangbusters Television
Folks;
As promised, I added an episode of the tevevision version of Gangbusters
to the Radio on TV folder in the pCloud OTR Digest Shared Folder. Enjoy!
Charlie
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