Hello and welcome again to The Old-Time Radio Hour Blog. In this season of political conventions we bring you a hilarious tribute to the American tradition of satire by Stan Freberg. He opens with a satire of a political convention that is very fresh and timely in 2016 although it was created sixty years ago in 1956. You will love this show as we all watch the convention attendees act so silly on television. Not much has changed. After that we present part one of a five part history of the NBC radio network narrated by Ben Grauer. Enjoy Stan Freberg's show The CBS Radio Workshop first broadcast August 31, 1956 on CBS. We broadcast each week over the World Wide Web with your host Justeen Ward. Find us on iTunes, Podbean or RSS. We covered the history of the CBS network in the past few weeks and this week we begin the history of NBC. We are presenting part one this week without commercials. This series is very well done with some iconic sound bites from history. Part one is narrated by Ben Grauer and takes us all the way back to radio's very beginning in 1912. It includes historical recording of Lindberg's flight. I know you will enjoy this informative and entertaining look back at the history of radio from it's very beginning. Enjoy NBC The First Fabulous Fifty Part 1 first broadcast October 10, 1976 on NBC. Thank you so much for listening to The Old-Time Radio Hour. I know you will enjoy the next two parts of the history of NBC during the golden age of radio if you are able to join us next week when we broadcast parts two and three of this fine series. I hope you can join us next week. lick here to edit.
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Hello welcome to The Old-Time Radio Hour Blog. I'm your host Justeen Ward inviting you to listen to the the third in a three part series of the history of the CBS radio network narrated by Walter Cronkite. It was broadcast on the 50th anniversary of CBS and this segment recalls children's programming like Jack Armstrong the All American Boy and Let's Pretend. CBS had some wonderful detective and mystery programs that we have enjoyed on The Old-Time Radio hour, like detectives Nick and Nora Charles or the mystery program Suspense. The Mercury Theater broadcast War of the Worlds on CBS. There were soap operas and Lux Radio Theater as well as shows bringing England's most famous Shakespearean actors Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson to perform on CBS. As Americans looked more to television for their entertainment, CBS radio featured mostly news and information programming. This was originally broadcast as a three hour special but we broke it up into three segments for our listeners. Enjoy this look back at the history of CBS at Fifty, an Autobiography in Sound narrated by Walter Cronkite first broadcast September 18, 1977 on CBS. We broadcast the show each week throughout the World Wide Web over RSS, iTunes and more. We really appreciate your taking an hour out of your busy week to join us at The Old-Time Radio Hour. Next week we will broadcast some wonderful entertainment from old time radio.
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