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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2020 : Issue 2
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  FM / Stereo Radio and the Golden Age  [ MIKE KERRIGAN <mikerrigan@[removed] ]
  Memories of [removed]              [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@veriz ]

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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 14:22:44 -0500
From: MIKE KERRIGAN <mikerrigan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  FM / Stereo Radio and the Golden Age Of Radio
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In all of the years that I've read about and listened to programming from the
golden age of radio, I've always assumed that non-music programming was only
carried on the AM band.  Joe Mackey's "This week in radio history" in Old
Time Radio Digest V2020 #1 indicates that the first FM transmitter went into
operation in 1941.  This was leaves a good number of years before the
widespread adoption of television and then the end of radio's golden age so I
am now questioning my assumption.   Were any of the popular programs
broadcast on FM?  Relatedly, was the later introduction of stereo technology
ever used in an attempt to encourage people to try dramatic radio programming
again?

Mike

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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 14:27:26 -0500
From: Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Memories of [removed]
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I've known Stewart for at least 20 years, all within the friendly confines
of the OTR community, and nearly all our contacts were via email or telephone
since we were 2,000 miles apart. I met him only once in person, at the
convention of the Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound (REPS) in Washington State
which Cathy and I attended several years ago.

He had served time in the military and had a career in cartography, but his
life was now 95% old-time radio research and writing. His "family" was not
the distant relatives he seldom saw, but rather all his OTR buddies,
particularly those who shared his love for diligent research in the vintage
broadcasting venue. While he favored "Gunsmoke" and the other great CBS
westerns of the Fifties, it did not keep him from exhaustive research on other
series, including "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" plus any series he knew one
of his friends was also researching.

Stewart knew I was a big fan of "Candy Matson, YU 2-8209" and he also knew
that while there were few audio copies in circulation, the entire script
collection was archived at the library in Thousand Oaks, CA, five time zones
away miles from me. Without me even asking, Stewart spent two days there,
laboriously examining the collection and then sending me a summary of each
weekly episode from July 1949 to November 1950. That's the kind of friend he
was.

In every major archive or library with large OTR holdings, Stewart was on a
first name basis with the head librarian. He never asked them for a favor
without returning it. He assisted them in inventorying their holdings,
supplemented their retrieval notices, and corrected any errors he found. He
knew the snack preferences of each librarian and would arrive with their
favorite candy or fruit, sometimes gift wrapped.

He generously shared his research through articles he wrote for various
publications of OTR clubs throughout the country, and my own RADIO RECALL was
the recipient of his kindness in that regard. He loved to personalize his
pieces with excerpts from his interviews with the original cast or crew
members of various radio series. He had a keen eye for detail and a enviable
memory which he used extensively in uncovering the same script used in
completely different programsb&[removed] finding a virtually identical script
performed on an episode of "Voyage of the Scarlet Queen" and also on
"Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar."

I'm going to miss him very much, as will all of us in the OTR community.

Jack French
Metro Washington OTR Club
Retired Editor: RADIO RECALL

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