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1 January – The NBC Radio Theater ends its run on network radio . [3] 23 March – The Second Mrs. Burton ends its run on network radio (CBS). 27 August – The Louisiana Hayride puts on its final show. 25 November – The long-running serial, Ma Perkins, airs its last episode on the CBS radio network. [4]
Phone-in talk shows were rare, but disk jockeys attracted a following through their chatter between records. The most popular radio shows during the Golden Age of Radio included The Jack Benny Program, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Goldbergs and other top-rated American radio shows heard by 30–35 percent of the radio audience. [120] [121]
The Radio Series Scripts Collections contains scripts from 1930-1990, while the Radio Sound Records Collection contains recordings from 1932-1994. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] The collections include scripts, books, personal papers, sound records, photographs, correspondence, and other material reflecting the history of radio- and TV broadcasting. [ 6 ]
One reluctant CBS star refused to bring her radio show My Favorite Husband to television unless the network would recast the show with her real-life husband in the lead. I Love Lucy debuted in October 1951, and was an immediate sensation, with 11 million of the 15 million total television sets watching (a 73% share ). [ 98 ]
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While the network's World News Roundup is the longest-running news show on radio or TV in the U.S., the title of longest-running network radio show of any kind goes to another CBS Radio program—Music and the Spoken Word, a half-hour of music and inspirational thought featuring the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. It began on July 15, 1929 ...
Cavalcade of America (1935–1953) CBS Church of the Air (1931–1956) CBS Radio Mystery Theater (1974–1982) CBS Radio Workshop; The CEO Show with Robert Reiss; Challenge of the Yukon (aka Sergeant Preston of the Yukon) (1938–1955) The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street (1940–1952) Champion Spark Plug Hour; Chandu the Magician ...
Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) [1] was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS.