Anniversary - Posts - Page 10

“…I take this same train every week at this time…”

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 5th 2016

On this date in 1943, one of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s longest-lasting and most popular programs premiered in the fo

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 23rd 2016

By the beginning of the 1950s, television had started to make major inroads as the preferred home entertainment source for

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Nov 21st 2016

“America’s favorite singing cowboy,” Gene Autry, began his long-running radio series Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch in January o

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Oct 19th 2016

The Golden Age of Radio—and this may be a good or bad thing, depending upon your opinion of the Fourth Estate—was a regular

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 20th 2016

In Leonard Maltin’s anecdotal old-time radio page-turner The Great American Broadcast, there’s a photograph of Parley Baer

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 6th 2016

The introduction of Jack Webb’s Dragnet to NBC Radio’s schedule in June of 1949 would soon inspire several imitators focuse