The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street has one of the longest radio program names in radio history. So for the purposes of this...

On August 9th , 1942 a piece-meal orchestra performed Dimitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich's famous "Symphony No. 7" in Leningr...

Shirley Jackson only wrote 6 novels in her 30 year career as a writer. She manged in that time to write the archetypal Haunted House story...

You probably have no idea who Frank H. Vizetelly is. But 80 years ago he made some predictions and set into motion some changes to broadcast...

The Bell Telephone Hour  was also known as The Telephone Hour.  Despite the name, it was actually just a half-hour program. It was a concert...

Shinola was a brand of shoe polish that was sold in the 1930s. It was a product of the Shinola-Bixby Corporation. While no longer made, it i...

General Foods debuted their "Cooking School of the Air" in l932.  It was conceived of as a program for housewives and mothers.  Fo...

Very briefly Cab Calloway had his own program.  He and his orchestra were featured on his own radio program, Cab Calloway's Quizzicale. ...

Black face "comedy " really offends me. But I won't ignore that it existed because that would conceal the problem... sort of l...

Walter Winchell was a petty and mean bastard. I want to make that clear. As inspiring as his story is, remember that. It's important...

You probably have no idea who Joe Penner was. But he was voted radio's top comedian in 1934. His career really began with a guest appe...

The Program Pete Kellys Blues was like a Detective novel, speakeasys, dope fiends, dames.. it's all classic pulp fiction. It's a cla...

 By 1951 John Nelson was announcing the NBC  TV program "Live Like a Millionaire" on Television but it began as a radio program sp...

The National Electric Light Association (N.E.L.A.) was founded in 1885 by Franklin Silas Terry, G.S. Bowen and Charles A. Brown. It was a t...

The Collier Hour is considered to be the first dramatic anthology. In it's later years it became more of a variety show, but in it...

There was once a Folk Opera called "The Call of the Cumberlands" by Harrison Elliot. It was first presented at the American Folk ...

NBC carried this little known show from 1946 through 1949. The program was aimed at teenage listeners hence the name "Teentimers....

I should admit now that The Shadow's history is messy.  It jumped from pulp fiction magazines to radio. It was on 3 different networks, ...

Sammy Kaye's "Sunday Serenade" started out in January of 1944 and lasted through is on nationally on the NBC Blue network. AB...

The American idiom "came on like gang busters" supposedly comes to us from a 1930s CBS radio serial. To quote etymology .com: To ...