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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2016 : Issue 21
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Re: The Long Pregnancy [ skallisjr@[removed] ]
Radio Preservation Task Force (RPTF) [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
Re: the long pregnancy [ karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@hotma ]
Truth or Consequences [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
This week in radio history 27 March [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Volunteers [ Charlie Summers <listmaster@lofcom. ]
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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 10:54:30 -0400
From: skallisjr@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: The Long Pregnancy
Jack French otrpiano@[removed] notes,
radio time was seldom in the same time zone as real life. In a kids'
adventure program Captain Midnight might take off from Washington, DC
and land in darkest Africa two minutes later, according to your kitchen
clock.
Radio time within a show was hardly like real time. A musical bridge
could take the story from one location to another in seconds. With a
narrator, time could be bridged for far longer times. In The Lone Ranger
story about establishing the Western Union telegraph network, in one half
hour, months were bridged. Time was always variable in OTR shows.
However, it's worth observing as almost an aside that the Captain
Midnight program, stuck in the middle of the "kid show" hours, was quite
popular among adults. According to Lyle Bergmann, Ovaltine's marketing
manager in the 1970s,the audience mix for the show was evenly divided
between juveniles and adults. (During World War II, it was reported to
have been a favorite of Air Corps flight crews.)
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 10:55:22 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Radio Preservation Task Force (RPTF) Conference
Karl Schadow, Martin Grams, Jr. and I were among the hundreds of attendees
to the RPTF Conference held the last weekend in February 2016 at the Library
of Congress and the Library of American Broadcasting in Hornbake Library at
the University of Maryland. The conference covered a wide range of important
topics relating to OTR including audio retention by libraries, museums and
archives, policies about what is archived and how, as well as increasing
pubic access to all audio archives throughout the [removed]
The best summary of this conference was written by Martin and you can read
it at:
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Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 10:55:55 -0400
From: karl tiedemann <karltiedemann@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: the long pregnancy
If anyone has to hand Mary Jane Higby's lovely little book of reminiscences,
TUNE IN TOMORROW, it may help. I distinctly remember an anecdote therein of
an actor saying to a colleague whose character had long been expecting: "You
have now passed the gestation period for an elephant," which, I gather, tops
600 [removed]
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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 10:56:24 -0400
From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Truth or Consequences
the show was, at least in part, a spoof of quiz shows.
So, would that make it an anti-quiz show (as in anti-hero)? :)
I'd call it an audience-participation show. Take away the ersatz quiz
show elements, and it's very similar to Art Linkletter's "People are Funny."
--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]| 92 State Street| Suite 700 | Boston, MA 02109-2004
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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 10:56:32 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 27 March to 2 April
From Those Were The Days
3/27
1943 Blue Ribbon Town was first heard on CBS.
3/28
1941 Louella Parsons hosted Hollywood Premiere for the first time on
CBS. The gossip columnist introduced famous guests who appeared in
dramatized stories.
1944 WQXR in New York City, owned by The New York Times newspaper,
banned singing commercials from its airwaves as of this day.
Understandable, since the station has always been the classical music
voice of Manhattan and there aren't many classical singing commercials.
3/29
1932 Jack Benny appeared on radio for the first time. He agreed to
join then newspaper columnist, Ed Sullivan, on his interview show.
1937 The serial, Our Gal Sunday, debuted. The question, "Can this girl
from a small mining town in the West find happiness as the wife of a
wealthy and titled Englishman?" was asked each day for next 22 years.
3/30
1936 The serial Backstage Wife made a move across the dial from the
Mutual Broadcasting System to NBC. Once there, the program continued to
air for the next 23 years.
1945 The Dreft Star Playhouse was heard for the final time. The show
had been paying up to $3,000 per week ($39,032 in 2015 dollars) to
attract name talent.
3/31
1937 Phil Harris recorded one of his best-known songs, That's What I
Like About the South.
1953 Cavalcade of America was heard for the final time on network
radio. It had been the longest running show of its kind. Cavalcade of
America presented dramatized events in American history for 18 years.
4/1
1941 The first contract for advertising on a commercial FM station
began on W71NY in
New York City.
1949 The first all black cast variety show, Happy Pappy was presented
on WENR TV in Chicago, IL
4/2
1947 The Big Story was first heard on NBC. It stayed on the air for
eight years.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 10:59:38 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <listmaster@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Volunteers
Folks;
Still need a few volunteers to test out cloud-sharing services, so we can
replace the Copy account we're using now to share OTR shows, documantaries,
video, etc. I'd like to test out various available services, and see which
will be the easiest for subscribers to use to access all the stuff currently
available on Copy.
Charlie
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