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The War of the Worlds radio broadcast by Orson Welles on electrical transcription disc. Before the early 1950s, when radio networks and local stations wanted to preserve a live broadcast, they did so by means of special phonograph records known as "electrical transcriptions" (ETs), made by cutting a sound-modulated groove into a blank disc. At ...
CBS Radio Mystery Theater; Earplay; The Firesign Theatre; The Fourth Tower of Inverness; Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater; Hollywood Theater of the Ear; Imagination Theater; NPR Playhouse; NPR's serialized adaptations of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi; A Prairie Home ...
The Big Story (radio and TV series) Big Town; Bing Crosby on Armed Forces Radio in World War II; The Bishop and the Gargoyle; Blackstone, the Magic Detective; Blind Date (radio series) Blind Date (American game show) Blondie (radio series) Blue Ribbon Town; Bob Crosby; Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders; Boston Blackie; Boston Blackie (radio ...
5 January: FM radio is demonstrated for the Federal Communications Commission in the United States for the first time. 7 January: The BBC Forces Programme begins broadcasting in the United Kingdom; it becomes the most popular channel among civilians at home as well as its primary target audience.
However, the rise of television broadcasting in the 1950s relegated radio to a secondary status, as much of its programming and audience shifted to the new "sight joined with sound" service. Originally the term "radio" only included transmissions freely received over-the-air, such as the AM and FM bands, now commonly called "terrestrial radio".
The Big Show (NBC Radio) The Big Story (radio and TV series) Big Town; The Bing Crosby Show (1954–1956) Blackhawk (radio series) Blackstone, the Magic Detective; Blondie (radio series) Bob Crosby; Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders; Bold Venture; Boomer Jones; Boston Blackie (radio series) Break the Bank (1945 game show) Bride and Groom ...
The 1926 formation of the National Broadcasting Company was a consolidation and reorganization of earlier network radio operations developed by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) beginning in 1922, in addition to more limited efforts conducted by the "radio group" companies, which consisted of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and its corporate owners, General Electric (GE ...
Take It or Leave It (1940–1950) Talent Round-Up (ABC, 1955) Tales of Fatima (1949) Tales of the Texas Rangers (1950–1952) Tarzan (1932–1953) The Ted Lewis Show (1934–1948) The Ted Steele Orchestra (1939–1955) Tech Talk Radio (2000–present) Terry and the Pirates (1937–1948) Texaco Star Theater (1938–1948) That Brewster Boy (1941 ...