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RadioInsight.com Boards Forum: Classic Radio - Recent Posts http://radioinsight.com/boards/ RadioInsight Discussion Boards en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:38:03 +0000 Joseph_Gallant on ""War Of The Worlds" Rebroadcasts: October, 2009" http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18316#post-74087 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:17:51 +0000 Joseph_Gallant 74087@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ This Friday (October 30th) will mark the 71st anniversary of the original broadcast of the radio adaptation of "War Of The Worlds", with Orson Welles. I'm sure quite a few stations around North America will air it this weekend; one I know of is Toronto's CFZM-740, which will rebroadcast it Friday the 30th at 11 P.M. EDT. CFZM is a 50,000-watt blowtorch with a powerful night signal across the eastern part of North America, you can also hear it online at that hour on their website, <a href="http://www.am740.ca" rel="nofollow">http://www.am740.ca</a> . If you know of other stations that will carry "War Of The Worlds", please post what stations, when it will air, and whether such stations have Internet streaming audio available. Thanks! peppertree5706 on "Question About WPGC 1970's" http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18144#post-73662 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:04:47 +0000 peppertree5706 73662@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ I did not know that their AM was daytime only. Given that information, there may have been different rules for an AM/FM with a daytime only AM. I can not think of any rock and roll stations from the 1970's in a major market that were AM only. I do remember that WPGR formerly WRCP in Philadelphia was a 50 Kw daytime only station. But their FM station had a different format. Thanks, that helps. oasisrulz on "Question About WPGC 1970's" http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18144#post-73661 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:56:14 +0000 oasisrulz 73661@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ I remember being stationed at Camp Pickett in Virginia during my Army stint...I remember picking them up they were a good top 40 station. But this was in 1973 and I remember the ID saying WPGC-AM and FM stereo Morningside...the AM took the top billing but they were a daytimer only with 50kw....the FM took over at night with the format....it was funny how AM was the king in those days and the FM was a tag along... peppertree5706 on "Question About WPGC 1970's" http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18144#post-73659 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:14:46 +0000 peppertree5706 73659@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ Why was WPGC the only major market station that I ever found which was allowed to simulcast AM and FM 24 hours a day? Never found another station that could do it, when it was restricted to only small markets. Joseph_Gallant on "An Online Archive Of Historical Radio (and TV) Station Information" http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/17881#post-73106 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:39:58 +0000 Joseph_Gallant 73106@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ Our own Tim Lones recently mentioned on his blog, Cleveland Classic Media (<a href="http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-radio-history-links.html)" rel="nofollow">http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-radio-history-links.html)</a>, that a man named David Gleason has set-up a website with scanned (as PDF files) pages of old issues of Broadcasting Magazine (now Broadcasting and Cable), past Broadcasting Yearbooks, past White's Radio Logs, and lots more. You can reach it by clicking-on <a href="http://www.davidgleason.com/Radio_Archives.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.davidgleason.com/Radio_Archives.htm</a> . This site is a treasure trove of historical information about radio (and TV) stations, and I strongly suggest you try it. You could be there for days! This, in my opinion, is anm excellent companion sire to the program logs for radio from 1930-60 (and some early TV logs as well) for New York, Washington, Chicago, and Los Angeles, found at <a href="http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs" rel="nofollow">http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs</a> . Joseph_Gallant on "Retro Radio: Boston, Monday, June 17th, 1929" http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/17866#post-73064 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:21:18 +0000 Joseph_Gallant 73064@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ Let's go back almost exactly eighty years to Boston radio on Monday, June 17th, 1929. Listings were from that day's Boston Globe. "Commercial" radio broadcasting had been around for a little more than eight-and-a-half years. Regular, daily network radio service had been around for a bit more than two-and-a-half years. There were three national radio networks, NBC "Red", NBC "Blue", and CBS (Mutual would not go on the air until 1934). The Globe's radio listing page divided up U.S. stations in three groups: "Normal" (stations presumably one could easily receive), "Intermediate" (stations one could pick-up with a better receiver), and "Remote" (what today we'd call "DXing"). There were also evening and nighttime programs listed for four Canadian stations and one Cuban station. The entire broadcasting days of Boston-area stations were listed. For other "Normal" and "Internmediate" stations, as well as the Canadian and Cuban stations included, only evening and nighttime programs were listed. For "Remote" stations, only call letters, locations, and the likely time you'd be able to hear them were included. Many musical programs (especially on networks) not only listed the casts, but also the songs or pieces scheduled to be performed. For clarity, only Boston-area stations are listed here. Comparing Boston listings with those in other cities (as well as using the book Tune In Yesterday, written in 1976 by John Dunning) were used to establish network status. Here are the Boston-area stations: WEEI Boston (NBC "Red"): 590 kc; 508.2 meters: 6:45 A.M. Health Exercises 8:00 A.M. E.B. Rideout, meteorlogist (who would remain at WEEI into the 1960's) 8:05 A.M. Looking over the Morning Globe (at this time, WEEI had a tie-in with the Boston Globe under which it produced the station's news programs) 8:30 A.M. Cheerio (NBC "Red"; some kind of "radio greetings of the air") 8:50 A.M. Parnasette Trio 9:00 A.M. Caroline Cabot Concert For Shoppers (Ms. Cabot was a pioneer in Boston radio and I think she was at WEEI for decades. The word "concert" sugests to me that it may have been shoppers' info mixed with music) 9:50 A.M. Nantasket Steamboat Trip (seems to be a remote; maybe they interviewed people about to take a boat from Boston to Nantasket Beach in Hull. Ironically, WBZ-1030 today transmits from Hull!) 11:00 A.M. Edison Quintet 11:15 A.M. Radio Household Institute (NBC "Red") 11:45 A.M. Edison Quintet (continued) 12:00 Noon Produce Markets 12:10 P.M. Time (No programs were listed until 5 P.M.; presumably, the station left the air for almost five hours) 5:00 P.M. Vacation Club Ensemble with Charles Henry and Mme. Share DeLye 5:15 P.M. Song Of The Flame 5:30 P.M. Indians (sketch? playlet?) 6:00 P.M. Big Brother Club, hosted by Bob Emery and featuring Chet Nelson Orchestra with soliost George Lewis (Emery had started this show in 1921 on the long-gone WGI in Medford Hillside, Massachusetts; he revived the "Big Brother Club" on early television, first on the DuMont network and then for many years at WBZ-4 in Boston) 6:30 P.M. Boston Globe News Dispatches 6:40 P.M. Big Brother Club (continued) 7:00 P.M. O'Leary's Irish Minstrels 7:30 P.M. Musical program (some of the titles of selections include "The Pilgrims", and "The Showboat") 8:00 P.M. Voice Of Firestone (NBC "Red"; premiering in 1928, this long-running program of mostly classical music would run on radio and later TV through the 1950's and be revived on TV for a year in 1962/63. Tenor Franklin Baur and contralto Vaughn DeLeath were featured this week) 8:30 P.M. A&P Gypsies (NBC "Red"; orchestra conducted by Harry Horlick) 9:30 P.M. General Motors Family Hour (NBC "Red"; among the guests this week was John Phillip Sousa with his band. Yes, that John Phillip Sousa! If only a recording existed of that) 10:30 P.M. Empire Builders (NBC "Red"; variety program) 11:00 P.M. Weather and Flying forecast, with E.B. Rideout. (At 11 P.M. EDT, according to the Globe radio listing page, some other NBC "Red" stations carried "National Grand Opera" until 12 Midnight) 11:05 P.M. Boston Globe News Dispatches (sign-off was presumably around 11:10 or 11:15) WBZA Boston (NBC "Blue"): 990 kc; 302.8 meters (Note: The "WBZ" call letters at the time were being used in Springfield on a station that simulcast WBZA. In the early 1930's, the Boston station had become the more prominent and the "WBZ" calls were moved east while the "WBZA" calls were moved to Springfield) 10:15 A.M. Musicale 10:29 A.M. Time 10:30 A.M. Shopping Talk 10:45 A.M. News Bulletins 10:50 A.M. Musicale 10:57 A.M. Financial News 11:00 A.M. Beauty Talk 11:30 A.M. Manuel DeHann, Organist 12 Noon Chimes 12:01 P.M. Spotlight Review 12:05 P.M. Corney Woglum's Orchestra 12:40 P.M. Government Bulletins 12:45 P.M. Financial News 12:50 P.M. Agricultural Reports; Weather (there were no programs listed after that until 2:30 P.M.) 2:30 P.M. Ampico Musicale (Ampico, BTW, was a popular model of player piano. Saved early broadcasters the costs of hiring live painists) 2:50 P.M. Beauty and Health talk 3:00 P.M. LaFrance Orchestra 3:30 P.M. Home Forum 3:45 P.M. Myrtle Atchinson-Walmer, pianist (musical selections she was to play were listed; could this have been an NBC "Blue" program??) 3:58 P.M. Financial News 4:00 P.M. Tea Time Seranaders 4:30 P.M. Larry Briers' Orchestra (nothing was listed after this program until 5:40 P.M.) 5:40 P.M. Rhythms 6:00 P.M. Time 6:01 P.M. News Bulletins 6:06 P.M. MAC Forum (that's how the Globe spelled it) 6:19 P.M. Weather 6:20 P.M. Agricultural Reports 6:30 P.M. Arch Aldes, Will Prevost, and Fred Wade (listing does not indicate what they did on their show) 6:45 P.M. Dinner Music 6:54 P.M. Temperaure 6:55 P.M. Baseball Scores 6:59 P.M. Chimes 7:00 P.M. Meadows Program 7:30 P.M. Roxy's Gang (NBC "Blue"; early variety show hosted by Samuel Lionel "Roxy" Rothafel; broadcast from the Capitiol Theatre in New York City) 8:30 P.M. White House Concert (NBC "Blue"; this musical program did not originate from the White House in Washington; but was named after it's sponsor, White Houe Coffee) 9:00 P.M. Edison Program (NBC "Blue"); the orchestra played the favoprite music of actor John Barrymore. (I have no idea if Mr. Barrymore himself appeared on the show or not) 9:30 P.M. Cheesbrough Real Folks (NBC "Blue"; named after the sponsor, Cheesbrough-Ponds) 10:00 P.M. Time 10:01 P.M. Baseball Scores 10:06 P.M. Lauretta Laurenti and artists 10:30 P.M. Sportsogram 10:35 P.M. Temperature 10:36 P.M. Irving Guyer's Troubadours 11:00 P.M. Weather 11:01 P.M. News Bulletins 11:06 P.M. Irving Guyer's Troubadours (continued) 11:30 P.M. Time (sign-off probably came around 11:31) WNAC Boston (CBS/Yankee Network*): 1230 kc; 234.8 meters (identified under the station's heading as "The Shepard Stores Broadcast") 7:45 A.M. News Summary 8:00 A.M. WBIS Record Selections and shopping news (Research I had done indicates that at some very early point, WNAC founder John Shepard also owned WBIS; perhaps this program was in fact a "WBVIS program", maybe sharing time and the same transmitter with WNAC) 9:00 A.M. Polar Bears (Yankee Network)(singing or musical group of some kind) 9:45 A.M. Grant's League Of Thrift (Yankee Network) (household advice program?) 10:00 A.M. WNAC Woman's Club (Yankee Network), with Eleanor Bateman and Mabel Parkes Friswell, soprano 10:30 A.M. Dandies, orchestra program 11:00 A.M. Radio Homemakes' Club, Ida Bailey-Allen (CBS) 11:30 A.M. Shepard Stores Concert Orchesatra, conducted by Charles Hector 12 Noon Today's Baseball Game (short preview of Red Sox game; see below) 12:01 P.M. News Flashes 12:10 P.M. Shepard Stores Concert Orchestra (continued) 12:30 P.M. WBIS record selections and shopping news 1:30 P.M. Major League Baseball: Detroit Tigers at Boston Red Sox (first game of doubleheader), play-by-play by Fred Hoey (the first-ever "Radio Voice Of The Red Sox"). According to Shrp Sports.com, Boston won the game 6-5. I do not know if this game was on the Yankee Network or just over WNAC. 3:00 P.M. Fillipino Melody Boys (time aproximate; musical interlude between games of baseball doubleheader) 3:15 P.M. Major League Baseball: Detroit Tigers at Boston Red Sox (second game of doubleheader) According to Shrp Sports.com, Detroit took the nightcap 8-3. (You may be wondering why there would have been a daytime baseball twinbill on a Monday. June 17th was---and still is---a city holiday in Boston, Bunker Hill Day, to commemorate the anniversay of the Battle Of Bunker Hill) 5:00 P.M. Ted And His Gang 5:45 P.M. Legal Stampers 6:00 P.M. Star Gazers String Ensemble 6:30 P.M. Concert orchestra (gave no indication of who; but did list the songs to be played) 7:00 P.M. Correcy Time 7:01 P.M. Lady Of The Ivories (a female pianist, but the Globe didn't name who) 7:05 P.M. Baseball Scores 7:10 P.M. Weather 7:11 P.M. Amos 'N Andy (syndicated via transcription discs; the show did not move to NBC until that August) 7:20 P.M. News Flashes (Yankee Network?) 7:30 P.M. Mason and Hamlin Concert 7:59 P.M. Correct Time 8:00 P.M. Musical Vignettes (CBS). This week: Songs of England 8:30 P.M. Ceco Couriers (CBS; musical program) 9:00 P.M. Dramatic Episode (CBS). The Globe didn't state what it was about. 9:30 P.M. Daguerreotypes (CBS; program of "old-time" music) 10:00 P.M. Joint Recital of Sergei Kotlarsky, violinist; and Mathildi Harding, pianist (CBS) 10:30 P.M. Night Club Romance (CBS; variety show) 11:00 P.M. Correct Time 11:01 P.M. News Flashes (Yankee Network?) 11:10 P.M. Meyer Davis' LeParadie Band 11:40 P.M. Pancho's Orchestra (probably CBS; it is listed on a couple of other CBS affiliates but at 11:30) WBSO Wellesley Hills: 780 kc; 384.4 meters 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. Market Reports 3:30 to 4:30 P.M. Good Cheer Service (religious program) WEPS Gloucester: 1200 kc; 250 meters 5:30 P.M. Special Fisherman's Broadcast WLEX Lexington: 1360 kc; 220.4 meters 4:30 P.M. Tel-U-Gram Hour 5:30 P.M. Variety Program 6:30 P.M. Organ recital, Ralph Woodward, Jr. 7:30 P.M. Weather 7:35 P.M. Popular hits with John Kesting, tenor, and Harry Parker, accompanist 7:45 P.M. Piano recital with Gwendoline Bowker 8:00 P.M. Correct Time 8:01 P.M. Popular songs by Jack Mahoney 8:15 P.M. Clem Johnson Quartet, with saoliost Henry Fairweather 8:30 P.M. C.H. Cunningham, barritone, with Ruth Cunningham, accompanist 9:00 P.M. The Racketeers, playing "Old-Fashioned Music" 9:30 P.M. West Concord Musical Club 10:00 P.M. Correct Time (sign-off was presumably around 10:01) WLEY Lexington: 1420 kc; 211.1 meters 9:00 A.M. Top 'O The Morning 10:00 A.M. Potpourri (there were no further programs until 6 P.M.; presumebly, this station signed-off around 11 A.M. and returned to the air at 6 P.M.) 6:00 P.M. Merchants' Program 6:30 P.M. Melrose Community Hour 7:30 P.M. Katherine M. Woodall, soprano 7:45 P.M. E. Russell Sanbourn's orchestra 8:15 P.M. Program by Flora Sweet 8:30 P.M. Correct time (I'd guess sign-off was around 8:31) WLOE Boston: 1500 kc; 200 meters 10:00 A.M. Touring The Shops (shopping program no doubt) 11:00 A.M. Request Program (no other programs were listed until 4 P.M.; I'd suspect WLOE was off the air from 12 Noon or so until 4) 4:00 P.M. Stock Quotations (again, no programs listed until 6 P.M.) 6:00 P.M. Band Recordings 6:15 P.M. News 6:20 P.M. Musical Selections 7:00 P.M. Ampico music 7:25 P.M. Baseball Scores 7:30 P.M. Lydia Pinkham's Quartet 8:00 P.M. The Musical Kellys 8:30 P.M. Classical vocal selections sung by Domenico Luca (tenor), accompanied by Marie Brouchu 8:55 P.M. Readings From Here And There 9:00 P.M. Weather 9:01 P.M. Musical Program: "The Abridged Elopment", sung by Flornce King, soprano; and read by Mary Frutig. 9:30 P.M. George Rogers, popular songs 9:45 P.M. Musical Program 10:00 P.M. Buddy Shepard and his Gang 10:30 P.M. Correct time (with sign-off likely coming around 10:31) *-The Yankee Network was a regional radio network established in 1928 by WNAC Boston. Then-sister station WEAN Providence was the first "affiliate"; eventually, the network would expand to affiliates across New England carrying newscasts, some enetrtainment programming, and during the 1930's and 1940's play-by-play of Boston's three professional sports teams (baseball's Red Sox, the old Braves, and hockey's Bruins) at the time. Joseph_Gallant on "Indianapolis "500" On Radio: Way Back When..........." http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/17781#post-72860 Fri, 22 May 2009 10:31:38 +0000 Joseph_Gallant 72860@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ Based on research I have been able to do, it was not until 1952 that radio listeners were able to hear "flag-to-flag" coverage of the Indianapolis "500" auto race on a national basis (perhaps there had been local "flag-to-flag" broadcasts of the race in Indianapolis prior to that). Thanks to the treasure trove of radio listings (for four major cities) at <a href="http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs" target="_blank"><a class="postlink" href="http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs">http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs</a></a> , I was able to discover that it appears NBC (on some "Red" and some "Blue" stations) had the first national broadfcast of the "500" in 1934. This broadcast was merely of the start and the finish of the race. By 1937, NBC "Blue", CBS and Mutual all carried the race, mostly just the start and finish (although NBC "Blue" did carry a 15-minute "progress report" from 2:30-2:45 P.M. EDT). As late as 1941 (the last "500" to be held before World War II suspended auto racing in the United States until 1946), Mutual and the "Blue" (soon to be divorced from NBC "Red") each carried the start, finish, and a 15-minute update midway through the event. After the War ended and the "500" resumed in 1946, only Mutual carried the race. In that era, Mutual was the major radio network for sports--besides the "500", it also carried the World Series and some other major events. I have heard an "urban legend" that the reason the Indianapolis Speedway took the radio broadcast of the "500" "in house" and produced a flag-to-flag broadcast beginning in 1952 was the rain-shortened 1950 race. The race was stopped after about 300 miles, and Mutual supposedly had to break into "Queen For A Day" (2:30-3 P.M. EDT back then) to announce that the race had to be terminated early due to rain. Reportedly, Speedway officials decided then and there that once the existing deal with Mutual ended (which must have been after the 1951 race since Mutual again did this same kind of coverage that year), they'd demand that the entire race be broadcast. Since the Speedway itself produced the radio broadcast of the 1952 race (and continues to do so to this day), I suspect none of the networks would agree to the Speedway's demands to air the race from start-to-finish. From 1952, until the "500" was first telecast live (except for Indianapolis itself) in 1986, the radio broadcast of the race became a Memorial Day (and later, Memorial Day weekend) tradition in millions of homes. Growing up, my memories of that day or weekend included listening to Sid Collins (and later Paul Page) call the "500" on radio and then (starting in 1971) watching the taped and edited telecast of the race on ABC-TV that evening. GTT_Time on "50's & 60's Radio broadcasts from SE US" http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/17501#post-72046 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:18:01 +0000 GTT_Time 72046@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ Hello, I am looking for recordings of radio broadcasts from the 1950's & 60's that featured a gentleman named Asa "Ace" Carter. Some of the stations that he was supposed to have been DJ'd or read speeches on are: WLBS Alabama “Country Boy Eddie Show” WILD Broadcast (now WYDE 850) WPID 1280AM Piedmont WIXI 63 - Irondale, AL (now 1360AM Jasper) WALA? He evidently gave speeches throughout the Southeastern US during this period. If anyone can help me out with finding these recordings or knows of another website or group that I should try I would greatly appreciate the help and apologize if this is not the right place to put this request. Thanks, Joe Wheeler Joseph_Gallant on "A Treasure Trove Of Vintage Program Listings" http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/16641#post-69220 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:44:26 +0000 Joseph_Gallant 69220@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ I've just stumbled upon a website with radio program listings from New York, Chicago, Washington, and Los Angeles between 1930 and 1960 (for many dates in the 1940's and very early 1950's, you'll find local TV listings for these four cities as well). You'll find it at <a href="http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs" target="_blank"><a class="postlink" href="http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs">http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs</a></a> , and it contains radio listing pages from the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times for nearly any date from January 1st, 1930 through December 31st, 1960. An interesting tidbit is that in many of the Chicago Tribune listings, WGN-720 (then as now owned by the paper) listed the call letters as "W-G-N", whereas other Windy City stations were listed as "WMAQ", "WBBM", "WLS", etc. Also as regards the Tribune, some 1940's program listing pages even indicate which shows were network programs. You could spend all day on this website!<img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile"> Joseph_Gallant on "November 4th, 1924: The First "Network Radio" Broadcast Of A Presidential Election Night" http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/16154#post-67806 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:19:48 +0000 Joseph_Gallant 67806@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ While the first radio broadcast of a Presidential "Election Night" is generally considered to be November 2nd, 1920 on Pittsburgh's KDKA (although inventor Lee DeForest was pretty much running a "broadcasting station" in New York during 1916 and it is claimed by some that he made a deal with a New York newspaper to broadcast election-night results that year), there is no dispute as to the first "network radio" broadcast of a Presidential election night. It was Tuesday night, November 4th, 1924 (about two years before NBC first went on the air), but the "network" appears to have consisted of no more than six stations. The network was actually a chain put together by WEAF in New York (then owned by AT&T), using AT&T landlines, for a weekly entertainment program titled "The Eveready Hour" (sponsored by National Carbon, manufacturers of Eveready batteries, the predesescor of today's Energizer batteries) which was broadcast on Tuesday nights anyway between 9 and 10 P.M. EST/EDT. According to an ad in the November 4th, 1924 Boston Globe, Eveready sponsored (and it's ad agency actually produced) a special broadcast that ran from 7 P.M. to 1 A.M. EST on several stations, including WEEI (then owned by the Edison Electric Illumination company, which became a charter member of the successor to the AT&T chain, the "NBC Red" Network, two years later). The Boston Globe ad mentioned that the program would be aired on WEEI "by wire" from WEAF, where it originated. In contrast to today's network television coverage of election night, it was not wall-to-wall election returns and analysis. In fact, the program seems to have been mainly entertainment with some elecion news interspersed. According to the ad, Will Rogers, "making his radio debut", was overall host and also "will call the turn on returns" according to the ad (imagine an "A-List" entertainer today serving both as emcee of a network entertainment special on an election night and also running down the latest election returns every so often!). Also listed as appearing were Wendell Hall (who I think became a popular network radio host druing the late 1920's and early 1930's), The Eveready Male Quartet (likely regulars on "Eveready Hour"), Carson Robison ("Eveready's Jay Bird", a "whistling singer" and likely another "Eveready Hour" regular), along with ther Waldorf-Astoria Dance Orchestra conducted by Joseph Knech (were they also regulars on "Eveready Hour"?). The ad urged listener to "tune in for the biggest night ever". According to radio listings in that day's Boston Globe, WFI Philadelphia (which later merged with WLIT to form WFIL) and WJAR Providence were listed as carrying this program along with WEEI and WEAF. An "Eveready Hour" ad in the December 16th, 1924 Boston Globe indicated that WGR Buffalo and WCAE Pittsburgh carried the show along with WEEI, WEAF, WJAR and WFI. While it's possible that some other stations picked-up the "Evereaady" election-night program, I suspect it was these six outlets that made up the network that carried the first-ever "network broadcast" of a Presidential election night. BTW, the November 5th, 1924 Boston Globe had a review of that broadcast. It noted that returns were so slow in coming in that there may have more entertainment during the early hours of the special (prior to 11 P.M. EST) than it's producers may have intended because returns were "slow". To the best of my knowledge (based on research of Boston newspaper radio listing pages on microfilm in the Boston Public Library), CBS broadcast the first wall-to-wall network radio coverage of a Presidential election night in 1932; NBC (the onetime "NBC Red") didn't follow suit with a wall-to-wall election-night radio broadcast until 1944.