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1950 In Radio
The year 1950 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history. Events * 15 March – The Copenhagen Frequency Plan is implemented by broadcasters throughout Europe. * 1 May – Springbok Radio, South Africa's first commercial radio station, takes to the airwaves. It will broadcast for 35 years, until 31 December 1985. * 5 June – In the Federal Republic of Germany, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Hessischer Rundfunk, Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Radio Bremen, Süddeutscher Rundfunk, and Südwestfunk jointly establish the ARD consortium of public broadcasting authorities. Debuts Programs * 1 January – ''Hopalong Cassidy'' debuts on Mutual.Cox, Jim (2008). ''This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . p. 6. * 6 January – ''The Halls of Ivy'' debuts on NBC. * 9 January – '' Hannibal Cobb'' debuts on ABC. * 16 January – ''Listen with Mother'' debuts on the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Broadcasting
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio station, while in satellite radio the radio waves are broadcast by a satellite in Earth orbit. To receive the content the listener must have a broadcast radio receiver (''radio''). Stations are often affiliated with a radio network which provides content in a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both. Radio stations broadcast with several different types of modulation: AM radio stations transmit in AM ( amplitude modulation), FM radio stations transmit in FM (frequency modulation), which are older analog audio standards, while newer digital radio stations transmit in several digital audio standards: DAB (digital audio broadcasting), HD radio, DRM ( Digital Radio Mondiale). Television broadcasting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listen With Mother
''Listen with Mother'' was a BBC radio programme for children which ran between 16 January 1950 to 10 September 1982. It was originally produced by Freda Lingstrom and was presented over the years by Daphne Oxenford, Julia Lang, Eileen Browne, Dorothy Smith and others. History It was first broadcast on 16 January 1950 on the BBC Light Programme in a fifteen-minute slot every weekday afternoon at 1.45, just before ''Woman's Hour''. Consisting of stories, songs and nursery rhymes (often sung by Eileen Browne and George Dixon) for “mothers and children at home”, at its peak it had an audience of more than a million listeners. Roger Fiske assisted with the music. From 7 September 1964 the programme moved to the BBC Home Service (later BBC Radio 4). ''Listen with Mother''s final week's programmes (widely reported in the press) featured Wriggly Worm stories, presented by Nerys Hughes and Tony Aitken and directed by David Bell. These stories were broadcast on the ''Listen wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life With The Lyons
''Life with the Lyons'' was a British radio and television domestic sitcom from the 1950s (1950–1961 on radio, 1955–1960 on television). Overview ''Life with the Lyons'' featured a real American family. Ben Lyon and his wife Bebe Daniels had settled in London during the Second World War and featured with Vic Oliver in the radio series'' Hi, Gang!'' that ran from 1940 to 1949. Radio ''Life With the Lyons'' followed and, with Ben and Bebe, featured their children Richard and Barbara Lyon. Although scripted, it expanded on real-life events including Barbara's real-life marriage to Russell Turner in 1957. The radio series premiered on 5 November 1950 and ended in 1961 was the first situation comedy in the United Kingdom. Writers included Jill Allgood, and Bob Block who created the BBC television series ''Rentaghost''. Molly Weir was their Scottish housekeeper Aggie Macdonald, Doris Rogers the nosy neighbour Florrie Wainwright and Horace Percival played Mr Wimple. Films Two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress. Primarily an actress of the stage, Bankhead also appeared in several prominent films including an award-winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock's ''Lifeboat'' (1944). She also had a brief but successful career on radio and made appearances on television. In all, Bankhead amassed nearly 300 film, stage, television and radio roles during her career. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1972 and the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1981. Bankhead was a member of the Bankhead and Brockman family, a prominent Alabama political family. Her grandfather and her uncle were U.S. senators, and her father was Speaker of the House of Representatives. Bankhead's support of liberal causes, including the budding civil rights movement, brought her into public conflict with her family and southern contemporaries, who championed white supremacy and racial segregation. She also supp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Show (NBC Radio)
''The Big Show'', an American radio variety program featuring 90 minutes of comic, stage, screen and music talent, was aimed at keeping American radio in its classic era alive and well against the rapidly growing television tide. For a good portion of its two-year run (November 5, 1950 – April 20, 1952), the show's quality made its ambition seem plausible. Personalities Hosted by stage actress Tallulah Bankhead, ''The Big Show'' began November 5, 1950, on NBC with a stellar line-up of guests: Fred Allen, Mindy Carson, Jimmy Durante, José Ferrer, Portland Hoffa, Frankie Laine, Russell Knight, Paul Lukas, Ethel Merman, Danny Thomas and Meredith Willson. To make sure no one missed the launch, NBC ran in Sunday newspapers across the country an illustrated advertisement displaying headshots of Allen, Bankhead, Carson, Durante and Merman. The premiere opened with this introduction: :Tallulah Bankhead: This is radio, 1950. The greatest stars of our time on one big program. And the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Frank Sinatra Show (radio Program)
''The Frank Sinatra Show'' was a title applied—in some cases specifically and in other cases generically—to several radio musical programs in the United States, some of which had other distinct titles as indicated below. Singer Frank Sinatra starred in the programs, some of which were broadcast on CBS, while others were on NBC. Format Regardless of title or sponsor, the common thread running through all of the programs was that they featured music,Reinehr, Robert C. and Swartz, Jon D. (2008). ''The A to Z of Old-Time Radio''. Scarecrow Press, Inc. . P. 103. primarily by Sinatra himself. ''Reflections'' (1942) Shortly after Sinatra left Tommy Dorsey's orchestra in 1942, an executive at Columbia Records arranged for him to appear on ''Reflections'', a sustaining (unsponsored) program on CBS. Author Will Friedwald wrote, "Sinatra appears to have done the program from October 1 to December 31, 1942." The 30-minute program included the orchestra of Walter Gross and the Bobby Tucker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Wild, Private Detective (radio Program)
''Charlie Wild, Private Detective'' is an American old-time radio detective mystery drama. It was broadcast on NBC September 24, 1950 - December 17, 1950, and on CBS January 7, 1951 - July 1, 1951. The episodes broadcast on CBS were also carried on six stations of the Alaska Broadcasting System. Origin ''Charlie Wild, Private Detective'' replaced ''The Adventures of Sam Spade'' on the air. The change followed the listing of ''Sam Spades star (Howard Duff) and creator (Dashiell Hammett) in the anti-Communist tract ''Red Channels''. Radio historian John Dunning wrote that the association of the two names with Communist activities was "making ''Spade'' sponsor Wildroot Cream-Oil increasingly unhappy." However, representatives of both the Wildroot company and the advertising agency that had the account denied that the cancellation of ''Sam Spade'' was related to the stir caused by ''Red Channels''. They said that the sponsor wanted a program with a lower budget on radio so that the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granby's Green Acres
''Granby's Green Acres'' is a radio situation comedy from the United States. It was broadcast on CBS July 3, 1950 – August 21, 1950, as a summer replacement for ''Lux Radio Theatre''. Premise ''Granby's Green Acres'' featured a former banker "who knew little about farming and proved it every week". Characters and cast Three of the main characters on ''Granby's Green Acres'' were much like those heard on many other situation comedies on radio: a husband, his "somewhat addled and impractical" wife, and "their breathless teenage daughter".Dunning, John. (1976). ''Tune in Yesterday: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, 1925-1976''. Prentice-Hall, Inc. . P. 244. Radio historian John Dunning wrote that the husband and wife were "inspired by characters heard on the Lucille Ball show, ''My Favorite Husband''." In fact, radio regulars Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet (who played John and Martha Granby) also played Mr. and Mrs. Atterbury on ''My Favorite Husband''. Dunning noted, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hashknife Hartley
''Hashknife Hartley'' is an American old-time radio Western program. It was broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System from July 2, 1950, until December 30, 1951. Schedule ''Hashknife Hartley'' began as a summer replacement series, filling the time slot of ''Juvenile Jury''. Paired with '' Hopalong Cassidy'' in the following half-hour, the substitution gave Mutual a one-hour Western block on Sunday afternoons. In September 1950, the block was extended to 90 minutes when '' Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders'' was added in the half-hour before ''Hashknife Hartley''. Format The program featured the adventures of Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens, characters created by W.C. Tuttle, who served as narrator. Hartley was a western detective, and Stevens was his sidekick; the pair traveled around the old West, solving crimes in various towns. ''Hashknife'' The word "hashknife" has two meanings in the context of western adventures. A hashknife was a tool that camp cooks used to sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Archers
''The Archers'' is a BBC radio drama on BBC Radio 4, the corporation's main spoken-word channel. Broadcast since 1951, it was famously billed as "an everyday story of country folk" and is now promoted as "a contemporary drama in a rural setting". Having aired over 19,500 episodes, it is the world's longest-running drama by number of episodes. Five pilot episodes were aired in 1950, and the first episode was broadcast nationally on New Year's Day 1951. A significant show in British popular culture, and with over five million listeners, it is Radio 4's most listened-to non-news programme, and with over one million listeners via the internet, the programme holds the record for BBC Radio online listening figures. In February 2019, a panel of 46 broadcasting industry experts, of which 42 had a professional connection to the BBC, listed ''The Archers'' as the second-greatest radio programme of all time. Partly established with the aim towards educating farmers following World War II, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Educating Archie
''Educating Archie'' was a BBC Light Programme comedy show which was broadcast for nearly ten years between June 1950 and February 1960, mostly at lunchtime on Sundays. The programme featured ventriloquist Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews. The show was very popular, despite its unlikely central premise of a ventriloquist act on radio. ''Educating Archie'' averaged 15 million listeners, and a fan club boasted 250,000 members. It was so successful that in 1950, after only four months on the air, it won the '' Daily Mail''s Variety Award. The programme introduced comedians who later became well known, including Tony Hancock as Archie's tutor, who would greet Archie with a weary "Oh, it's you again" and always replied to any put-down from him with "flipping kids". Other "tutors" included Benny Hill, Harry Secombe, Dick Emery, Bernard Bresslaw, Hattie Jacques, and Bruce Forsyth – together with a young Julie Andrews as Archie's girlfriend. Later, Beryl Reid took this rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloak And Dagger (radio Series)
''Cloak and Dagger'' is an NBC radio series, a foreign intrigue adventure adapted from the book ''Cloak and Dagger'' by Corey Ford and Alistair McBain. Ford also was host of the series. ''Cloak and Dagger'' was broadcast from May 7 to October 22, 1950, as part of "a mystery block with several other shows of far inferior quality". The program was Sustaining program, sustaining for all 22 episodes. Personnel The cast that included Raymond Edward Johnson, Everett Sloane and Jackson Beck. Robert Warren and Karl Weber (actor), Karl Weber were the announcers. Scriptwriter Wyllis Cooper directed the series with research support provided by Percy Hoskins, British journalist, crime reporter and author. The producers were Alfred Hollander and Louis G. Cowan, with Sherman Marks as director. Jack Gordon and Winifred Wolfe were the writers, and John Gart provided music. Episodes Stories on ''Cloak and Dagger'' "came right out of Washington files" of the Office of Strategic Services. A 1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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