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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]
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 ...
Ray, William B. FCC: The Ups and Downs of Radio-TV Regulation (Iowa State University Press, 1990) Rosen, Philip T. The Modern Stentors; Radio Broadcasting and the Federal Government 1920–1934 (Greenwood, 1980) Settel, Irving. A Pictorial History of Radio (1960) Sies, Luther F. Encyclopedia of American Radio: 1920–1960 (McFarland, 2nd ed. 2 ...
American Radio Warblers (1937–1952) The American School of the Air (1930–1948) American Top 40 (1970–1995, 1998–present) America's Town Meeting of the Air (1935–1956) Amos 'n' Andy (1929–1960) An Evening with Romberg (1945-1948) And They Call It Democracy (2005–2008) The Andre Kostelanetz Show (1932–1948)
Bill Oates, in his biography, Meredith Willson - America's Music Man: The Whole Broadway-Symphonic-Radio-Motion Picture Story, noted: During the early 1930s, before regular broadcasting flowed endlessly from coast to coast from the network hubs in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and because of the time differences, West coast stations presented a great deal of network quality original ...
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]
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 ...
January – George Gershwin's An American in Paris [3] 15 July – Music & the Spoken Word on KSL and the CBS radio network, the longest-running continuous network radio program in the US. 19 August – Amos 'n Andy debuts on the NBC Blue radio network. 1 October – Blackstone Plantation debuts on CBS. [2]