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The Timid Soul was a 1941–1942 comedy based on cartoonist H. T. Webster's famed Caspar Milquetoast character, and Robert L. Ripley's Believe It or Not! was adapted to several different radio formats during the 1930s and 1940s. Conversely, some radio shows gave rise to spinoff comic strips, such as My Friend Irma starring Marie Wilson. [19]
According to information collected from a data analytics company in 2019, it was found that every week, approximately 92% of all American adults listen to radio. [14] As of 2021, an estimated 12% of listenership to FCC-licensed AM and FM radio stations comes from means other than the actual AM or FM signal itself, usually an Internet radio ...
1 April – The 1930 United States Census is the first in that country's history to require households to report the ownership of a radio-receiving set. 18 April – BBC radio listeners uniquely hear the announcement "Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news." [1]
16 August – Pervis Spann, American disc jockey (died 2022). 13 September – Dick Biondi, American National Radio Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Top 40 and Oldies disc jockey. 9 December – Morton Downey, Jr., controversial and influential American broadcast talk show host of the 1980s, pioneer of the "trash talk show" format ...
Homemade two tube radio from 1958 1930s style homemade one-tube regenerative radio. The idea of radio as entertainment took off in 1920, with the opening of the first stations established specifically for broadcast to the public such as KDKA in Pittsburgh and WWJ in Detroit. More stations opened in cities across North America in the following ...
W2XB (also branded as WGY-TV from its sister radio station) WRGB: 2.15 MHz 6 Schenectady Albany, New York, United States: May 10, 1928 – present General Electric Co. Mechanical television 24 (later 48) lines/21 frame/s NTSC-M from 1942–2009; now ATSC digital. W1XAY (also branded as WLEX from its sister radio station) 3.5 MHz
Television began to replace radio as the chief source of revenue for broadcasting networks. Although many radio programs continued through this decade, including Gunsmoke and The Guiding Light, by 1960 networks had ceased producing entertainment programs. [8] As radio stopped producing formal fifteen-minute to hourly programs, a new format ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (radio series) Against the Storm (radio program) The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen; The Aldrich Family; The All-Negro Hour; America Dances; America's Town Meeting of the Air; The American Album of Familiar Music; The American Forum of the Air; American Portraits; The American School of the Air; Amos 'n' Andy ...