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Articles / News“I get ten a day and expenses…they call me the Lyon’s Eye.”
By Ivan G Shreve Jr During his stint at San Francisco’s KGO in the mid-1940s, John Randolph “Jack” Webb ...
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Articles / NewsHappy Birthday, Phil Harris!
By Ivan G Shreve Jr The man who let audiences know what he liked about the South would have ...
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Articles / NewsYes, Please? The Days In the Life of Dennis Day
By Elizabeth McLeod Part of what made The Jack Benny Program memorable was the endearing presence of Jack’s “gang.” ...
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Articles / NewsThat whistle is your signal for the anniversary…of The Whistler…
By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. Seventy-five years ago on this date, radio’s best-known omniscient narrator took the first of ...
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Articles / NewsBoy Wonder: The Radio Life of Orson Welles
By Elizabeth McLeod Some performers take a lifetime to reach their full potential, and some pack an entire lifetime’s ...
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Articles / News“Dad-rat the dad-ratted…”
By Ivan G Shreve Jr Seventy-seven years ago, one of radio’s best-remembered running gags was introduced…and it was as ...
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Articles / NewsCasey, Crime Photographer: Live From The Blue Note
By Elizabeth McLeod If the second half of the 1940’s was the Golden Age of radio detective drama, it ...
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Articles / NewsOn The Night Beat: Radio’s Hardboiled Reporter
By Elizabeth McLeod Newspaper reporters may seem a quaint relic of the past in this day of pajama-clad “citizen ...
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Articles / News“Herewith, an Englishman’s account of life and death in the West…”
By Ivan G Shreve Jr Fifty-nine years ago on this date, a western — that old-time radio historian John ...
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Articles / NewsLiving The Life of Riley
By Elizabeth McLeod If there’s a single phrase which might describe the basic concept underlying the standard family situation ...
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