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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2011 : Issue 179
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
Update on Jay Hickerson [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
11-11 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
What to do with all these mp3 discs? [ "Sara or Malcolm Long" <smlong@sudd ]
Is "Bumps" and "Clint Barlow" the sa [ "Sara or Malcolm Long" <smlong@sudd ]
Quiz Kids Log [ Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@y ]
11-12 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
J. Egar and "Gangbusters" [ Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 13-19 Nov [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
Re: Why not reach out to a Radio per [ Joemartelle@[removed] ]
85th anniversary of the first U. S. [ "Bob Scherago - Verizon" <scherago@ ]
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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:59:18 -0500
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Update on Jay Hickerson
Folks;
With my sincere apologies for the delay and thanks to our friends Ken
Stockinger and Jack French, the latest on Jay Hickerson. His wife Karen
reports the outlook is cautiously optimistic; once discharged from the
hospital Jay will be heading to a rehab facility to rebuild his strength. As
anyone who knows him assumes, he's rather anxious to get home and return to
his "normal" life, but the docs are showing him down until he's healed.
She also sends, "Please thank everyone for their good wishes and prayers.
I am very, very grateful to you all."
More as we hear it.
Charlie
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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:59:27 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-11 births/deaths
November 11th births
11-11-1872 - Maude Adams - Salt Lake City, Utah - d. 7-17-1953
actor: "Maude Adams"
11-11-1883 - Wilbur C. Tuttle - Missouri - d. 6-6-1969
writer: "Hashkdnife Hartley"
11-11-1885 - George S. Patton - San Gabriel, CA - d. 11-21-1945
maverick general: "These Are Our Men"
11-11-1887 - Roland Young - London, England - d. 6-5-1953
actor: Cosmo Topper "Advs of Topper"; William "Johnny Presents"
11-11-1891 - Rev. Dr. Walter Van Kirk - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-6-1956
minister: "Religion in the News"
11-11-1892 - Al Schacht - NYC - d. 7-14-1984
sportscaster: ( The Clown Prince of Baseball) "Al Schacht's Sports Show"
11-11-1897 - James Goss - Chicago, IL - d. 8-20-1976
actor: Uncle Jim Fairfield "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
11-11-1898 - Rene Clair - Paris, France - d. 3-15-1981
film director: "This Week Around Paris"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-11-1899 - Harold J. "Pie" Traynor - Framingham, MA - d. 3-16-1972
sportscaster: KQV Pittsburgh
11-11-1899 - Pat O'Brien - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-15-1983
actor: Dan Carson "Dan Carson"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
11-11-1900 - Lorayn Brox - Memphis, TN - d. 6-14-1993
singer: (Brox Sisters) "A Tribute to Irving Berlin"
11-11-1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason - Boston, MA - d. 8-28-1978
writer: "The Man from G-2"
11-11-1902 - Webley Edwards - Corvallis, OR - d. 10-5-1977
announcer, host: "Hawaii Calls"
11-11-1904 - Joe Penner - Magybecskereck, Hungary - d. 1-10-1941
comedian: "Joe Penner Program"; "Penners of Park Avenue"
11-11-1906 - Harry Holcomb - Malta, OH - d. 9-15-1987
director, narrator: "Curtain Time; "Dr. [removed], The Mental Banker";
"Moon River"
11-11-1906 - Victor Bell - d. 11-30-1976
newscaster: KUTA Salt Lake City, Utah
11-11-1908 - Jerry Devine - Boston, MA - d. 5-20-1994
producer, director, writer: "Mr. District Attorney"; "This Is Your FBI"
11-11-1909 - Bill Demling - Chicago, IL - d. 8-30-1974
writer: "Mickey Mouse's Theatre of the Air"
11-11-1909 - Rad Robinson - Bountiful, UT - d. 9-20-1988
singer: (Member of the King's Men) "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "King's
Men"
11-11-1909 - Robert Ryan - Chicago, IL - d. 7-11-1973
actor: "Document A/777"; "Hollywood Star Playhouse"; "Suspense"
11-11-1911 - Patric Knowles - Horsforth, Yorkshire, England - d.
12-23-1995
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-11-1913 - Jess Oppenheimer - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-27-1988
writer: "The Jack Benny Program"; The Baby Snooks Show"; My Favorite
Husband"
11-11-1914 - Howard Fast - NYC - d. 3-12-2003
writer: "New World A' Coming"; "Cavalcade of America"
11-11-1915 - William Proxmire - Lake Forest, IL - d. 12-15-2005
[removed] senator: "Meet the Press"
11-11-1917 - Paul Masterson - Montana - d. 5-10-1996
announcer: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
11-11-1917 - Robert J. Shaw - Pewaukee, WI - d. 3-30-1996
writer: "Mr. District Attorney"; "Advs. of Christopher Wells"
11-11-1918 - Elma I. Ellis - Birmingham, AL
writer, producer: "We the People"; "Great Jury Trials"
11-11-1918 - Stubby Kaye - NYC - d. 12-14-1997
comic, singer, actor: "The Heartbeat of Broadway"
11-11-1920 - Ruth Brooks - Omaha, NE
writer: "The Billie Burke Show"
11-11-1922 - Kurt Vonnegut - Indianapolis, IN - d. 4-12-2007
writer: "Dimension X"
11-11-1923 - Willie Cook - Tangipahoa, LA - d. 9-22-2000
jazz trumpeter: "Voice of America"
11-11-1925 - Jonathan Winters - Dayton, OH
comedian: "Monitor"
11-11-1929 - La Vern Baker - Chicago, IL - d. 3-10-1997
singer: "Camel Rock and Roll Dance Party"
11-11-1930 - Hank Garland - Cowpens, SC - d. 12-27-2004
guitarist: "Jim Reeves Show"; "Country Music Time"; "Country Style
[removed]"
11-11-1939 - Denise Alexander - NYC
actor: Francie Nolan "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"; Debbie Sharp "Big Guy"
11-11-1941 - Russell Horton - Los Angeles, CA
actor: "Americans All"
November 11th deaths
01-27-1885 - Jerome Kern - NYC - d. 11-11-1945
composer: "Railroad Hour"; "Show Boat"
02-25-1925 - Lisa Kirk - Charleroi, PA - d. 11-11-1990
vocalist: "The Henry Morgan Show"
03-22-1886 - Thomas J. Cowan - Newark, NJ - d. 11-11-1969
announcer: First voice heard over WJZ
03-29-1912 - Fred Brady - NYC - d. 11-11-1961
actor: Himself "The Fred Brady Show"
04-10-1885 - Sigmund Spaeth - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-11-1965
commentator: "Tune Detective"; "Fun in Print"
04-16-1917 - Jean Holloway - d. 11-11-1989
writer: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Mayor of the Town"; "Mr. President"
05-10-1894 - Dimitri Tiomkin - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 11-11-1979
composer, conductor: "Last Man Out"; "1947 March of Dimes Campaign"
05-26-1912 - Barbara Lee - Denver, CO - d. 11-11-1986
actor: "Big Sister"; "Valiant Lady"; "Our Gal Sunday"
06-05-1961 - Mary Kay Bergman - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-11-1999
voice actor: commercials for radio
06-07-1933 - Herb Score - Rosedale, NY - d. 11-11-2008
baseball broadcaster: Cleveland Indians
06-25-1908 - Larry Berns - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-11-1965
producer: "Jack Carson Show"; "Our Miss Brooks"; "Lum and Abner"
07-12-1920 - Keith Andes - Ocean City, NJ - d. 11-11-2005
actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"
07-16-1916 - Lionel Baxter - d. 11-11-2000
sportscaster: WAPI Birmingham, Alabama
07-17-1883 - James Abbe - d. 11-11-1973
photographer: "James Abbe Observes"
07-20-1920 - Max Bicknell - d. 11-11-1995
disk jockey: KIUL Garden City, Kansas
07-26-1914 - Erskine Hawkins - Birmingham, AL - d. 11-11-1992
bandleader: "Apollo Concerts"; "Big Band Themes on the Air"
07-31-1912 - Irv Kupcinet - Chicago, IL - d. 11-11-2003
sportscaster: WGN Chicago "Chicago Bears"
08-06-1911 - Dwight Butcher - Oakdale, TN - d. 11-11-1978
singer: (Cedar Ridge Boys) WBAP Fort Worth, Texas
08-08-1900 - Victor Young - Chicago, IL - d. 11-11-1956
conductor, composer: "Shell Chateau"; "Old Gold Don Ameche Show
08-09-1901 - Gaby Casadesus - Marceilles, France - d. 11-11-1999
pianist: "The Telephone Hour"
08-29-1899 - George V. Denny, Jr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 11-11-1959
moderator: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
09-24-1919 - Dayton Allen - NYC - d. 11-11-2004
actor: Phineas T. Bluster/Flubadub "Howdy Doody"; "Words at War"
10-11-1897 - Jane Ace - Kansas City, MO - d. 11-11-1974
comedian: "Easy Aces"; "Jane Ace, Disc Jockey"
10-19-1903 - Robert Hardy Andrews - Effingham, KS - d. 11-11-1976
writer: "Skippy"; "Jack Armstrong"; "Just Plain Bill"
12-25-1907 - Cab Calloway - Rochester, NY - d. 11-11-1994
bandleader: "Quizzical"
12-28-1932 - Pamela Duncan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-11-2005
actor: "Dangerous Assignment"
Ron
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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:59:39 -0500
From: "Sara or Malcolm Long" <smlong@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: What to do with all these mp3 discs?
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I have gobs of OTR shows on .mp3 discs that need a home. Many discs have been
written on rather sloppily (not just by me!) and aren't "pretty," but the
sound is fine. What are folks doing with the discs now that we store many of
our entire collections online or on a PC?
Thanks.
Barnkeeper
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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:59:58 -0500
From: "Sara or Malcolm Long" <smlong@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Is "Bumps" and "Clint Barlow" the same voice?
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HI
I just listened to several of the "Jerry of the Circus" shows, and when I
listened to "Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police," it struck me
that the same man did both of these two voices. Are the characters "Bumps, the
Clown" (of the Jerry of the Circus show) and the character "Clint Barlow" (of
Speed Gibson") done by the same guy? Does anyone know who this man is/was? I
haven't found much about the voices of Jerry of the Circus/Fair Oaks and hope
that someone has already figured out this mystery for me.
Cordially,
Barnkeeper
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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:00:10 -0500
From: Ken Stockinger <bambino032004-otr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Quiz Kids Log
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Martin Gardner requested where to find a complete log of "Quiz Kids"
programs. Coincidentally, Martin Grams posted a log of lost "Quiz Kids" shows
on his blog today(Fri. 11/11/11). The blog is really informative,and I never
miss one of his weekly, Friday afternoon postings. You can arrange to have
each Friday's posting sent to your e-mail for free by signing up at the bottom
of the blog page. The address is [removed]
I don't
know of anyone else other than Martin who has compiled a log of the entire run
of "Quiz Kids". Hope this helps.
Ken Stockinger
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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:00:18 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 11-12 births/deaths
November 12th births
11-12-1884 - Griff Barnett - Blue Ridge, TX - d. 1-12-1958
actor: Rexall Family Druggist "Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show"
11-12-1903 - Jack Oakie - Sedalia, MO - d. 1-23-1978
comedian: "Jack Oakie's College"
11-12-1910 - Madelyn Palmer - Adelaide, South Australia - d. 8-xx-1997
author of numerous radio plays.
11-12-1911 - Buck Clayton - Parsons, KS - d. 12-8-1991
trumpet: "Count Basie and His Orchestra"; "Doctor Jazz"
11-12-1911 - Claudia Morgan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-17-1974
actor: Carolyn Allen Walker Kramer Nelson MacDonald; "Right to
Happiness"
11-12-1911 - Clay Bryant - Madison Heights, VA - d. 4-9-1999
baseball analyst: "Baseball with Clay Bryant"
11-12-1914 - Charles Marion - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-29-1980
writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
11-12-1915 - Richard Ney - NYC - d. 7-18-2004
actor: "Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre"; "Suspense"
11-12-1917 - Henry Jerome - NYC
bandleader: "Dinner at the Green Room"
11-12-1917 - Jo Stafford - Coalinga, CA - d. 7-16-2008
singer: "Tommy Dorsey Show"; "Ford Show"; "Chesterfield Supper Club"
11-12-1919 - Jackie Washington - Hamilton, Canada - d. 6-27-2009
Canada's first black disk jockey
11-12-1920 - Richard Quine - Detroit, MI - d. 6-10-1989
actor: "Doctor Christian"; "Mayor of the Town"; "Family Theatre"
11-12-1922 - Kim Hunter - Detroit, MI - d. 9-11-2002
actor: "Medicine USA"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"; "CBS Radio Mystery
Theatre"
11-12-1929 - Grace Kelly - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-14-1982
actor: "Family Theatre"; "Bob Hope Show"
11-12-1929 - Jim Backlin - d. 3-5-1981
disk jockey: KCJB Minot, North Dakota; KFYR Bismarck, North Dakota
11-12-1933 - Bert Andersen - d. 6-14-1974
disk jockey: KTAC Tacoma, Washington
11-12-1940 - Robert Francis Boulanger - Lewiston, ME - d. 12-6-2005
sang on the radio at the age of 7
November 12th deaths
01-11-1896 - George Houston - Hampton, NJ - d. 11-12-1944
baritone: "Theatre Magazine"
02-14-1884 - Grace Valentine - Springfield, OH - d. 11-12-1964
actor: Minnie Grady "Stella Dallas"
02-23-1905 - Emil Buffa - d. 11-12-1973
conducted his orchestra for NBC
04-30-1912 - Eve Arden - Mill Valley, CA - d. 11-12-1990
actor: Connie Brooks "Our Miss Brooks"; Libby Collins "Lux Radio
Theatre"
05-20-1911 - Vet Boswell - Birmingham, AL - d. 11-12-1988
singer: (The Boswell Sisters) "The Boswell Sisters"; "Woodbury Soap
Show"
05-30-1917 - Peter Leeds - Bayonne, NJ - d. 11-12-1996
actor: Eugor "Rogue's Gallery"; "Bob Hope Show"; "Stan Freberg Show"
06-01-1888 - Louis Mason - Danville, KY - d. 11-12-1959
actor: Clem Betts "Moonshine and Honeysuckle"
06-08-1918 - Robert Carroll - North Carolina - d. 11-12-1994
actor: Inspector Mark Sabre "Molle Mystery Theatre"
06-23-1917 - Norman Rose - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-12-2004
narrator: "Dimension X"
06-26-1957 - Martin Smith - England - d. 11-12-1994
vocalist: "Songs from the Shows"; "Friday Night is Music Night"
07-07-1894 - David Ross - NYC - d. 11-12-1975
actor: Bob "Mary and Bob"
07-07-1909 - Eddie Mayehoff - Baltimore, MD - d. 11-12-1992
actor: Waldo Greentree/Nick Scott "Against the Storm"
07-14-1931 - Robert Stephens - Bristol, England - d. 11-12-1995
actor: Aragorn "The Lord of the Rings"
07-29-1910 - Sydney Roslow - d. 11-12-2002
psychologist: "What Makes You Tick?"
08-13-1909 - Dave Willock - Chicago, IL - d. 11-12-1990
actor: Tugwell "Jack Carson Show, Sealtest Village Store"
09-15-1908 - Penny Singleton - Phildelphia, PA - d. 11-12-2003
actor: Blondie Bumstead "Blondie" Penny Williamson "Penny Singleton
Show"
09-30-1906 - Michael Innes - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 11-12-1994
author, short story writer: "Appleby's End"
12-03-1908 - Anna Sten - Kiev, the Ukraine - d. 11-12-1993
actor: "March of Time"; "Stagedoor Canteen"
12-07-1879 - Rudolf Friml - Prague, Bohemia - d. 11-12-1972
operetta composer: "Railroad Hour"; "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
12-11-1915 - Dolly Good - Mt. Carmel, IL - d. 11-12-1967
singer: (Girls of the Golden West) "National Barn Dance"
Ron
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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:01:20 -0500
From: Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: J. Egar and "Gangbusters"
I just saw the new biopic "J. Edgar" directed by Clint Eastwood and starring
Leonardo DiCaprio as the legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Without
going into one's personal politics, I would highly recommend this film as it
presents a good story. However, I am leaning towards thinking some dramatic
license was taken in regards to the actual sequence of events when a veiled
reference was made to radio's "Gangbusters."
At one point around the time the FBI was investigating the Lindbergh baby
kidnaping circa 1934, Hoover/Di Caprio appears before a Senate subcommittee
making a plea for expanded government funding and broadened investigatory
powers. A nay-saying senator (McCollum?, McLellan?) counters Hoover's request
by cryptically accusing Hoover of self-aggrandizement as the exploits of him
and his "G-Men" are played out in comic books and on radio, particular on an
unnamed show airing on Saturday nights.
This, I feel, is where certain liberties were taken. According to Dunning,
"G-Men," the forerunner of "Gangbusters, didn't appear until 1935 and as for
comic books, that industry really didn't come into its own until 1036/1937.
Can anybody shed light on this anomaly
Incidentally, the eventual host of "Gangbusters" Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf,
Sr. (the father of Desert Storm's "Stormin Norman" Schwartzkopf) is depicted
in the film as the head of the New Jersey State Poilice in charge of leading
the Linbergh baby investigation. At this point, I don't want to give much
more of this enjoyable film away.
Students?
Derek Tague
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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:01:26 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 13-19 November
From Those Were The Days -
11/14
1921 KYW radio, Chicago, IL broadcast the first opera by a
professional company. Listeners heard Samson Et Dalila as it was being
performed at the Chicago Auditorium.
From Today in History at the NY Times
1922, the British Broadcasting Corp. began its domestic radio service.
11/15
1926 Network radio was born. 24 stations carried the first broadcast
from the National Broadcasting Company. The program was a gala 4 1/2
hour broadcast from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
11/18
1307 The story of William Tell shooting the apple off of his young
son's noggin is said to have taken place on this day.
(If it hadn't been for Tell there would have been no opera, if there had
been no opera there would have been no overture, if there had been no
overture the Lone Ranger wouldn't have had the theme music we know. <g>
ed)
Joe (that's a joke son, I say that's a joke).
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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:02:02 -0500
From: Joemartelle@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Why not reach out to a Radio performer
before it's too late.
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The passing of our friend, legendary radio announcer, George Ansbro brings
to mind a sobering thought.
Before it's too late, why not reach out to those few OTRadio performers
left with a hi and a thank you for providing us with so much enjoyment.
Thankfully, I reached out to George and his lovely wife, Jo-anne a few years
ago. We became fast-friends and an autographed copy of his book, A Lady in
the
Balcony is one of my prized possessions.
Sadly, there have been many other OT Radio personalities, I'm afraid I
didn't take or make time to drop them a line. A few which come to mind,
include, Bill Conrad, Mary Jane Higby, Virginia Payne, Jackson Beck and
Norman
Corwin. I feel confident you have your own list of personal favorites, who
hopefully, you reached out to before they passed on. Don't miss an
opportunity to say hello and thanks to those few who are left ... before it's
too
late.
Joe Martelle
Mesa, Colorado
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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:02:09 -0500
From: "Bob Scherago - Verizon" <scherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 85th anniversary of the first U. S. network
radio program
Next Tuesday, November 15, besides being the opening of firearm deer hunting
season in Michigan, is the 85th anniversary of the first U. S. network radio
program.
On Monday, November 15, 1926, from the stage of the Grand Ballroom of the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
sent what it called its "inaugural ball," to 25 stations in the East and
Midwest. The stations were linked with New York by 3,600 miles of telephone
cable.
The idea of listeners in several cities listening to the same program at the
same time was heady stuff in 1926.
One of the inaugurating stations was WWJ in Detroit, now a CBS radio
affiliate, on the air today with an all-news format on 950 kHz. Others,
according to American Radio Networks, a History, by Jim Cox were KYW in
Chicago, later Philadelphia; WTAM in Cleveland; WBZA in Boston; and WDAF in
Kansas City.
The program lasted more than four hours and cost NBC upwards of $50,000, a
huge amount then. (Not too shabby a sum now). Performing live were a
symphony orchestra, a concert pianist, an oratorio society, and a comedy
team. Remote pickups included a monologue by comedian Will Rogers from a
theater dressing room in Kansas City and selections by operatic diva Mary
Garden from Chicago.
One of the early proponents of network or "chain" broadcasting was a young
Russian immigrant named David Sarnoff (1891-1971). Fascinated by the Morse
code used to send messages, Sarnoff, at age 15, got a job with the Marconi
Wireless Company of America.
In April 1912, operating a wireless set for the Marconi Company at Nantucket
Island, Massachusetts, the young radio man stayed at his code key for more
than 72 hours relaying names of survivors of the sinking of the Titanic
following the ship's collision with an iceberg.
Four years later, when working for Marconi in New York, Sarnoff, in a memo
sent to his superiors, said, in part: I have in mind a plan of development
which would make radio a household utility. The idea is to bring music into
the home by wireless. ... The same principle can be extended to numerous
other fields, as for example receiving lectures at home ... Also, events of
national importance can be simultaneously announced and received.
Later, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), which had been founded in
1919, acquired the assets of the Marconi Company. NBC was formed by RCA to
provide desirable programming to enhance interest in the purchase of the
radio receivers it manufactured.
The idea must have worked, or at least it did on the evening of November 15,
1926. A woman, upon leaving the inaugural ball, turned to her husband and is
quoted as saying, "My dear, I had no idea. We simply must get one of those
radios first thing tomorrow."
By 1930, Sarnoff was president of NBC and, between 1947 and 1970, was
chairman of the board of the Radio Corporation of America and its NBC
offspring.
Only a few weeks following the inaugural broadcast, on New Year's Day 1927,
a second group of NBC stations carried play-by-play coverage of the Rose
Bowl football game, in which Alabama and Stanford grappled to a 7-7- tie.
The announcer was Graham McNamee who was posthumously elected just this year
into the Radio Hall of Fame. Originally hoping to be an opera singer,
McNamee began his career by joining the staff of WEAF, New York, in 1923.
In his book, Cox states that the 1927 Rose Bowl broadcast " ... was the
start of a broadcasting (and sportscasting) heritage that continues on both
radio and television in the modern age."
It started 85 years ago November 15.
Bob Scherago
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