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The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio (OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of choice ...
Doublemint. Gene Autry's Melody Ranch is a Western variety radio show in the United States. A 15-minute pilot show aired on December 31, 1939. The program ran from January 7, 1940 to August 1, 1943, and from September 23, 1945 to May 16, 1956. [1] The show's entire run was broadcast over the CBS radio network, sponsored by Doublemint gum. [2]
Joy Boys. The Joy Boys was a popular daily improvised comedy radio show in Washington, D.C., between 1955 and 1974 that launched the broadcast careers of the program's co-hosts Willard Scott and Ed Walker. The two did various skits and satirized prominent people of the day, such as Scott's character "Arthur Codfish" (mocking Arthur Godfrey).
Duffy's Tavern is an American radio sitcom that ran for a decade on several networks (CBS, 1941–42; NBC-Blue Network, 1942–44; and NBC, 1944–51), concluding with the December 28, 1951, broadcast. The program often featured celebrity guest stars but always hooked them around the misadventures of Archie, the tavern's manager, portrayed by ...
Sponsored by. Hecker H-O Company Kraft Foods. Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders is an old-time radio juvenile Western adventure program in the United States, one of the first juvenile radio programs. [ 1 ] It was broadcast on CBS October 17, 1932 - December 11, 1936, and on Mutual June 21, 1949 - June 17, 1955.
The Great Gildersleeve. The Great Gildersleeve is a radio situation comedy broadcast in the United States from August 31, 1941 [1] to 1958. [3] Initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, [4] it was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. The series was built around Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a regular character from the ...
First air date. November 11, 1961. (1961-11-11) Last air date. November 3, 2008. (2008-11-03) WHFS was the call sign for three FM stations in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore markets on various frequencies for nearly 50 years. The first and longest run was a progressive rock station, usually referred to as HFS.
Created by Goodman Ace for CBS Radio, it portrayed an entire network newsroom on a figurative time warp each week reporting the great events of the past. Reporters included John Charles Daly, Don Hollenbeck, and Richard C. Hottelet. The series was first heard on July 7, 1947, under the title CBS Is There. Its final broadcast was on March 19 ...