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RadioInsight.com Boards Forum: Classic Radio - Recent Topics http://radioinsight.com/boards/ RadioInsight Discussion Boards en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:54:01 +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-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. 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