Podcast appearances and mentions of ben grauer

Drama on a FridayFirst a look at the events of the dayThen Richard Diamond Private Detective staring Dick Powell, originally broadcast April 4, 1952, 73 years ago, The Enigma of Big Ed.   "Big Ed" hires Diamond to find out why a series of fatal accidents have been plaguing his factory. Followed by Murder at Midnight, originally broadcast April 4, 1947, 78 years ago, Trigger Man.  The story of Charlie Nix, known as "Chicken Charlie." Charlie is told that he only has six months to live, so he becomes a ruthless killer! Then The Mysterious Traveler, originally broadcast April 4, 1950, 75 years ago, The Man from Singapore.  Two schemers kill their ex-partner in Hawaii, planning the perfect crime. Followed by I Want a Divorce, originally broadcast April 4, 1941, 84 years ago, Farmer and Artist. A woman farmer and an artist from the city get married, even though they obviously come from different worlds. It sometimes takes a tragedy to awaken us to a true perspective on our lives.Finally, Guest Star, originally broadcast April 4, 1948, 77 years ago, guest star Perry Como. A quarter hour of good music with Ben Grauer as Master of Ceremonies with nice music from Perry Como, Lloyd Schaefer and the orchestra, Helen Carroll and the Satisfiers. Thanks to Honeywell for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamIf you like what we do here, visit our friend Jay at http://radio.macinmind.com for great old time radio shows 24 hours a day

After the final rendition of the Vulgarian National Anthem for 2024, the Fat One natters before closing out the LITTLE show with the annual recreation of New Year's Eve with Guy Lombardo and Ben Grauer in Time's Square. Happy National Champagne Day.

The OTRNow Radio Program 2024-016 The Shadow Of Fu Manchu. July 05, 1939. Program #25. Radio Attractions syndication. Sponsored by: Music fill for local commercial insert. An opium den raided, Nayland Smith rescued!. Hanley Stafford, Gale Gordon. The Shadow Of Fu Manchu. July 07, 1939. Program #26. Radio Attractions syndication. Sponsored by: Music fill for local commercial insert. The sealed chest of Dr. Fu, a trap is laid. Hanley Stafford, Gale Gordon. The Abbott and Costello Show. November 19, 1942. Red net, KFI, Los Angeles aircheck. William (Bud) Abbott and Lou Costello (born Louis Francis Cristillo) performed together as Abbott and Costello, an American comedy duo whose work on stage, radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team during the 1940s, as well as a top ten box office draw for a full decade (1942 1952). Their iconic and influential patter routine "Who's on First?" with its rapid-fire word play and comprehension confusion set the framework for many of their best-known comedy bits. . Sponsored by: Camels, Prince Albert Pipe Tobacco. The program originates from the 6th Ferrying Group Air Transport Command, Long Beach, California. Mel does the voices of Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, an electric organ and hiccups. Lou wants to play the romantic lead in Merle's next picture. The cast does, "The Brave Knight Cut Off The Dragon's Tail," or, "The Dragon Isn't Wagon Anymore." Costello plays, "Sir Porterhouse," Abbott plays, "Sir Loin." Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Connie Haines, Leith Stevens and His Orchestra, Ken Niles (announcer), Merle Oberon (guest), Mel Blanc, The Camel Five.Doctor Six-Gun. September 2, 1954. Program #1. NBC net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast.DR. Karl Weber plays Dr. Ray Matson as the gun-carrying, wandering doctor known far and wide as Dr. Sixgun. Dr. Sixgun's story was told through the doctor's perpetually inebriated companion, Pablo. The show ran for one season beginning in 1954.  The first show of the series. Aaron Gault is determined to get rich off a young Indian boy with the measles. Ernest Kinoy (writer), Fred Weihe (director, transcriber), George Lefferts (writer), Karl Weber, William Griffis.Author's Playhouse. September 22, 1944. NBC net. "Cry For The Hunted". Sustaining. A man is almost crazy from his attempts to escape from the Nazis. Frederick J. Lipp (author). Sleep No More. November 21, 1956. NBC net. "Conqueror's Isle". Sustaining. A flyer is forced down on a strange island and discovers a race of superior humans preparing to take over the world. The story was previously used on "Escape" on March 15, 1949. The system cue has been deleted. Nelson Olmsted, Ben Grauer (announcer), Nelson Bond (author), Kenneth MacGregor (director). 

PC_2024-010_The OTRNow Radio ProgramThe Shadow Of Fu Manchu. June 05, 1939. Program #13. Radio Attractions syndication. Sponsored by: Music fill for local commercial insert. The houseboat on the Thames. Hanley Stafford, Gale Gordon. 15 minutes, Audio Condition: very good to excellent audio, complete.10993. The Shadow Of Fu Manchu. June 07, 1939. Program #14. Radio Attractions syndication. Sponsored by: Music fill for local commercial insert. Plans for a new aerial torpedo have been stolen!. Hanley Stafford, Gale Gordon. 15 minutes, Audio Condition: very good to excellent audio, complete.Our Miss Brooks. September 19, 1948. CBS net. "The Conklins' Anniversary At Crystal Lake". Sustaining. It's the Conklin's anniversary, and time for a weekend at the cabin at Crystal Lake. Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton have been invited to come along! A similar script was subsequently used on the program on August 21, 1949 or September 4, 1949 (see cat. #46051). Eve Arden, Jane Morgan, Noreen Gammill (as Mrs. Conklin), Richard Crenna, Gloria McMillan, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler, Larry Berns (producer), Wilbur Hatch (music), Bob Lemond (announcer), Al Lewis (writer, director), Dink Trout.    Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. March 04, 1952. ABC net, WJZ, New York aircheck. "The Asteroid Of Danger". Sponsored by: Kellogg's Pep, Kellogg's Raisin Bran. Manning and Dr. Dale disappear while prospecting in the asteroid belt. Al Markim, Drex Hines (director), Edward Bryce, Frank Thomas Jr., Jackson Beck (announcer), Jan Merlin, Margaret Garland, Gilbert Braun (writer), Jon Gart (organist). 1221. Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. March 06, 1952. ABC net, WJZ, New York aircheck. "The Asteroid Of Danger". Sponsored by: Kellogg's Pep, Kellogg's Raisin Bran. A scientist has kidnapped Dr. Dale and Manning and is hiding out on a small asteroid. Al Markim, Drex Hines (director), Edward Bryce, Frank Thomas Jr., Jackson Beck (announcer), Jan Merlin, Margaret Garland, Gilbert Braun (writer), Jon Gart (organist). The Jergens Journal. May 18, 1941. Blue Network. Sponsored by: Jergen's Lotion and Facial Powder. Winchell with hard war news and Broadway gossip. His unique style is featured, with "flash," the telegraph key, etc. Ben Grauer (announcer), Walter Winchell.The FBI In Peace and War. November 03, 1954. CBS net origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "The Twenty-Five-Thousand-Dollar Bond". The wife of a government worker is being romanced and then blackmailed by a foreign agent. Martin Blaine, Don Briggs, Jackson Beck, Elspeth Eric, Les Damon, William Johnstone, Frederick L. Collins (creator), Betty Mandeville (producer, director). Sleep No More. December 05, 1956. NBC net. "Over The Hill" "The Man In The Black Hat". Sustaining. Part of the final public service announcement has been deleted. Nelson Olmsted, Ben Grauer (announcer), Michael Fessier (author of both stories), Kenneth MacGregor (director).

Here we are, back at Bill Pogue's. It's after 11PM. What do we know? Well, there are less people drinking here than last night, most would rather stay in and listen for updates. On the air over CBS right now is Joan Brooks. Me? I'm just trying to have that nightcap I started yesterday. There are still news bulletins coming out of Europe. It's almost dawn there. The men will be continuing their missions with D-Day: Plus 1 So far, we know that at least four-thousand Allied soldiers have been killed in the initial attack, but the German forces on the Normandy peninsula have either been killed, captured or forced to withdraw to Caen. I'm sure as we speak troops and equipment are being ferried across the Channel. I know the hope is that by the end of June we'll have nearly a million men in western Europe as we advance north from Italy simultaneously. With the Russians pushing Germany west it's only a matter of time, but the Germans won't go down without a fight. But, I know American resolve. We'll be up for the task, no matter how long it takes. It's why next month on Breaking Walls we'll move just a few weeks into the future and focus on Independence Day, 1944. —————————— The reading material used in today's episode was: • Radio Speakers--A Biographical Dictionary — By Jim Cox • On The Air — By John Dunning • Network Radio Ratings — By Jim Ramsburg As well as articles from • Broadcasting Magazine • CBSNews.com • GlobalNews.ca • LIFE Magazine • Military-History.org • The New York Times • The New York Daily News • Presidency.UCSB.edu • RadioArchives.com • Radio Daily —————————— On the interview front: • André Baruch, Mel Blanc, Ken Carpenter, Norman Corwin, Alice Frost, Barbara Luddy, Bret Morrison, Ken Roberts, Kate Smith, and Olan Soule spoke with Chuck Schaden. Hear these full chats at Speakingofradio.com. • Himan Brown, Staats Cotsworth, Jim Jordan, Mandel Kramer, and Jan Miner, spoke to Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC's The Golden Age of Radio. Hear these interviews at Goldenage-WTIC.org • Joan Banks spoke to SPERDVAC. For more info, go to SPERDVAC.com • Fran Carlon, John Daly, and Ben Grauer spoke for Westinghouse's 50th anniversary. • Ned Calmer, Doug Edwards, Lowell Thomas, Charles Osgood, and Bob Trout spoke to CBS for their 50th anniversary. • HV Kaltenborn spoke to NBC for their 50th anniversary • Charles Collingwood and Bob Trout spoke to the makers of Please Stand By • Bob Trout also spoke to the Television Academy • George Burns spoke with Barbara Walters • Red Skelton spoke with Dini Petty —————————— Selected music featured in today's episode was: • Romanian Folk Dances #3 — By Béla Bartók, played by Avi Avital • Wilderness Trail — By Walter Scharf for National Geographic —————————— A massive special thank you to Walden Hughes for supplying so many master quality recordings used in this D-Day episode. Listen to Walden's shows on the Yesterday USA radio network.

Opposite of The Burns and Allen Show at 9PM, NBC ran a special “Cross Country D-Day tour”, hosted by the just-heard Ben Grauer. It was a program from every part of the nation to show what everyone was thinking and doing on this historic and momentous day. The theme was the same: Work, Pray, Fight. The stations included remotes from WTIC in Hartford, WSYR in Syracuse, WTAR in Norfolk, WSPD in Toledo, WLW in Cincinnati, WMC in Memphis, KTSP in St. Paul, and WKY in Oklahoma City.

The OTRNow Radio Program 2012-040Treasury Star Parade. Program #102. Treasury Department syndication. "It Isn't Peanuts". A Washington, D. C. cab driver tells off two society ladies who don't realize that there's a war on!. Vincent Price (host), Edward G. Robinson, David Broekman and His Orchestra. The Tenth Man. November 7, 1947. The National Mental Health Foundation syndication. "The Old Folks At Home". Sustaining. NBC Orthacoustic transcription.  Grandpa is living at home with a married couple, and that seems a bit difficult for everyone. Ralph Bellamy (narrator), Jackson Beck (announcer), Jack Nair (writer), Drex Hines (director), Dallas Pratt (technical advisor).Jeff Regan, Investigator. September 11, 1948. CBS Pacific net. "The Story Of Cain and Abel and The Santa Maria". Sustaining. A little silver ship has been stolen, and Jeff has been hired to get it back. Jack Webb, Wilms Herbert, Lurene Tuttle, Dickie Chambers, Paul Frees, Wally Maher, Marvin Miller, E. Jack Neuman (writer), Sterling Tracy (producer), Richard Aurandt (music), Bob Stevenson (announcer).Bring 'Em Back Alive.  October 30, 1933. RKO Radio Pictures syndication. "The Weretiger of Sungai". The program features Frank Buck (impersonated). The date is approximate. The program is also known (incorrectly) as, "The Jungle Adventures Of Frank Buck.".Bring Em Back Alive 1933-10-30 Manhunt. October, 1943. ZIV Syndication. "The Clue of the Melody Murders". Sponsored by: Commercials added locally.  The series was recorded in New York. Being syndicated, the series was heard on different stations on different dates. Maurice Tarplin (narrator), Larry Haines, Frances Robinson. Counterspy. June 25, 1945. ABC net. "The Case Of The Dog Of Dynamite". Sponsored by: Fresh Deodorant. The former commander of all Gestapo agents in Spain plans to enter a U.S. government laboratory working on very valuable "bugs.". Don MacLaughlin, Phillips H. Lord (producer), Mandel Kramer, Helen Warren, David Leeds (announcer). Beyond Midnight 1969 Picture.  Beyond Midnight was a South African radio horror anthology series that ran from 1968 to 1970 on Springbok Radio.A couple living and working in Africa experience a nightly "visitor" roaming among their trash bins. Becoming increasingly frustrated by being woke up on a frequent basis, the two devise a plan to take a picture in hopes of finding a solution to ridding themselves of the "visitor". However, the "visitor" is something more than what they bargained for. Sleep No More. December 12, 1956. NBC net. "Three O'Clock". Sustaining. Nelson Olmsted, Ben Grauer (announcer), Kenneth MacGregor (director), Cornell Woolrich (author, using the name William Irish).

The OTRNow Radio Program 2012-040Treasury Star Parade. Program #102. Treasury Department syndication. "It Isn't Peanuts". A Washington, D. C. cab driver tells off two society ladies who don't realize that there's a war on!. Vincent Price (host), Edward G. Robinson, David Broekman and His Orchestra. The Tenth Man. November 7, 1947. The National Mental Health Foundation syndication. "The Old Folks At Home". Sustaining. NBC Orthacoustic transcription.  Grandpa is living at home with a married couple, and that seems a bit difficult for everyone. Ralph Bellamy (narrator), Jackson Beck (announcer), Jack Nair (writer), Drex Hines (director), Dallas Pratt (technical advisor).Jeff Regan, Investigator. September 11, 1948. CBS Pacific net. "The Story Of Cain and Abel and The Santa Maria". Sustaining. A little silver ship has been stolen, and Jeff has been hired to get it back. Jack Webb, Wilms Herbert, Lurene Tuttle, Dickie Chambers, Paul Frees, Wally Maher, Marvin Miller, E. Jack Neuman (writer), Sterling Tracy (producer), Richard Aurandt (music), Bob Stevenson (announcer).Bring 'Em Back Alive.  October 30, 1933. RKO Radio Pictures syndication. "The Weretiger of Sungai". The program features Frank Buck (impersonated). The date is approximate. The program is also known (incorrectly) as, "The Jungle Adventures Of Frank Buck.".Bring Em Back Alive 1933-10-30 Manhunt. October, 1943. ZIV Syndication. "The Clue of the Melody Murders". Sponsored by: Commercials added locally.  The series was recorded in New York. Being syndicated, the series was heard on different stations on different dates. Maurice Tarplin (narrator), Larry Haines, Frances Robinson. Counterspy. June 25, 1945. ABC net. "The Case Of The Dog Of Dynamite". Sponsored by: Fresh Deodorant. The former commander of all Gestapo agents in Spain plans to enter a U.S. government laboratory working on very valuable "bugs.". Don MacLaughlin, Phillips H. Lord (producer), Mandel Kramer, Helen Warren, David Leeds (announcer). Beyond Midnight 1969 Picture.  Beyond Midnight was a South African radio horror anthology series that ran from 1968 to 1970 on Springbok Radio.A couple living and working in Africa experience a nightly "visitor" roaming among their trash bins. Becoming increasingly frustrated by being woke up on a frequent basis, the two devise a plan to take a picture in hopes of finding a solution to ridding themselves of the "visitor". However, the "visitor" is something more than what they bargained for. Sleep No More. December 12, 1956. NBC net. "Three O'Clock". Sustaining. Nelson Olmsted, Ben Grauer (announcer), Kenneth MacGregor (director), Cornell Woolrich (author, using the name William Irish).

After Bob Hope's program signed off at 10:30PM eastern war time, The Red Skelton Show signed on. It debuted on Tuesday October 7th, 1941. By February of 1944 it was pulling a rating of 29.9. Ozzie and Harriet Nelson were heavily featured. Skelton was so supercharged that he couldn't do a pre-show warm up. It left his audience exhausted and practically catatonic during the main show. So Skelton reversed the formula and gave his fans an after-show. Among his peers it was considered the hottest comedy act in town. Lurene Tuttle, who later appeared with Ozzie and Harriet on their own show, also starred on The Red Skelton Show. For three seasons Skelton's popularity soared, but then he got divorced and lost his marriage deferment. The army drafted Skelton in 1944. MGM and radio sponsor Raleigh Cigarettes tried to help with no avail. The Draft Board also turned down his request to join the Special Services branch for entertainers. Skelton's last radio program was on D-Day, June 6th, 1944. The next day he was formally inducted as a private. Without its star, the program was discontinued until he could come back from the war. Words at War was an anthology of war stories, “told by the men and women who have seen them happen.” It was produced in cooperation with the Council on Books in Wartime, promising “stories of the battlefronts, of behind-the scenes diplomacy, of underground warfare, of the home front, of action on the seas.” Each show was to be “a living record of this war and the things for which we fight.” First taking to the air on June 24th, 1943 from New York, it was praised by Variety as “one of the most outstanding programs in radio”; by the New York Times as the “boldest, hardest-hitting program of 1944”; and by Newsweek as “one of the best contributions to serious commercial radio in many a year.” Despite airing at 11:30PM on Tuesdays, Words at War stimulated conversation and controversy throughout its two-year run. On Tuesday, February 8th 1944 a story on George Washington Carver was broadcast. When Words At War signed off at midnight, NBC broadcast a ninety minute program for the fourth war bond drive. It was part of an extended effort to raise funds. The night prior at midnight, Ben Grauer hosted this show over NBC.

Fred Allen was a radio humorist on air from 1942 to 1949. These are two selections from his show.1- “Living 1949. The State of American Humor.” With Fred Allen and Ben Grauer, broadcast on January 30, 1949.2- “Fred Allen salutes Jack Benny.” Recorded at a Friar's Club Roast and broadcast on November 9, 1951.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3392051/advertisement

Another hour-long Podcast special. Biography In Sound. May 15, 1956. Recollections At Thirty. A salute to network radio on its thirtieth anniversary. Excerpts heard: The Kansas City Nighthawks, Bob and Ray, The First National Speed Crocheting Contest (1939), famous news bulletins and reports, excerpts from Toscanini broadcasts, Ben Grauer describes the conclusion of Toscanini's last broadcast, an Arch Oboler broadcast, "One Man's Family (Chapter 8, Book 29)," "Pot Of Gold," "Information Please," "The Fred Allen Show," "The Kraft Music Hall," "Vic and Sade," many other brief excerpts.Visit my web page - http://www.classicradio.streamWe receive no revenue from YouTube. If you enjoy our shows, listen via the links on our web page or if you're so inclined, Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wyattcoxelAHeard on almost 100 radio stations from coast to coast. Classic Radio Theater features great radio programs that warmed the hearts of millions for the better part of the 20th century. Host Wyatt Cox brings the best of radio classics back to life with both the passion of a long-time (as in more than half a century) fan and the heart of a forty-year newsman. But more than just “playing the hits”, Wyatt supplements the first hour of each day's show with historical information on the day and date in history including audio that takes you back to World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Carter, Nixon, LBJ. It's a true slice of life from not just radio's past, but America's past.Wyatt produces 21 hours a week of freshly minted Classic Radio Theater presentations each week, and each day's broadcast is timely and entertaining!#ClassicRadio #OldTimeRadio #retrospective #BiographyInSound #ReflectionsAt30

Episode 5 aired August 7, 1954 on NBC Radio. Ben Grauer hosts a program about William Brewster. 'Elder' William Brewster was born about 1566, probably in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. His birth is also seen as Scrooby, Bassetlaw District, Nottinghamshire, England. He died on 10 Apr 1644 at the Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts, and is buried at Burial Hill there.

The eighth-annual Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Broadway Theatre were held at the Plaza Hotel's Grand Ballroom on March 28th, 1954. Broadcast on radio by NBC, it was emceed by Ben Grauer and Faye Emerson. ____________ The entire post-dinner awards ceremony took thirty minutes. Some of the plays and musicals of note that season were Ondine, Kismet, Can-Can, The Teahouse of The August Moon, and John Murray Anderson's Almanac. ____________ Dolores Grey won a Tony for Carnival in Flanders, even though this Broadway musical ran for only six performances. It's a still-standing record for the briefest run by a Tony winner. ____________ This was David Wayne's second and final Tony award. He would appear in numerous films and TV, including starring alongside Paul Muni in the 1959 film, The Last Angry Man. ____________ 1954 was a banner year for the twenty-five year old Audrey Hepburn. Three days earlier she won a Best Actress Oscar for her starring role in Roman Holiday. She'd also won a Golden Globe for the same film. In September, Sabrina would premiere, for which she was again Oscar nominated the following year.

This is a snippet from Breaking Walls Episode 116: The Launch of NBC's Monitor (1955) ___________ With Monitor announced, a huge facility was being built on the fifth floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. It would be called Radio Central. NBC's next steps were to identify key personalities to be featured. Jim Fleming was named executive producer. In a memo he detailed why the name “Monitor” was chosen. During the war, newsmen monitored the short-waves for information, now they'd be monitoring the entire country and NBC's network. The name suggested alertness, service, vigilance, and a sense of responsibility. These men and women wouldn't be announcers, they'd be “communicators.” One radio veteran in the fold was Ben Grauer. Born in New York in 1908, he was a child actor who became an NBC staff announcer in 1930. Grauer covered olympic games, announced for Walter Winchell's Jergen's Journal, and was hand selected by Arturo Tuscani to support NBC's Symphony Orchestra. By World War II he was a senior commentator and reporter. Communicators would be drawn from a wide-pool of talent and paired. Some of the people suggested were Alene Francis, Morgan Beatty, Hugh Downs, Red Barber, Goodman & Jane Ace, Fred Allen, Bob Trout, Faye Emerson, Bob & Ray, Frank Blair, Burgess Meredith, Boris Karloff, Bennett Cerf, and Dave Garroway. Garroway was a radio veteran and jazz hound who had an unusual, homespun way of talking to his audience. He'd entered TV in 1949 with Garroway At Large. As he mentioned earlier, he'd been hosting Today since January of 1952. But Garroway initially wanted no part of Monitor. However, Pat Weaver asked him personally, and Garroway trusted Weaver implicitly. He agreed. On Monday May 2nd, the network produced a closed circuit practice hour. With the format all but set, it was time for a soft launch.

For Westinghouse's 50th Anniversary in 1970, longtime NBC radio announcer Ben Grauer spoke about being on his toes with news relays during World War II. Born in New York in 1908, he was a child actor who became an NBC staff announcer in 1930. Grauer covered olympic games, announced for Walter Winchell’s Jergen’s Journal, and was hand selected by Arturo Tuscani to support NBC’s Symphony Orchestra. By World War II he was a senior commentator and reporter.

In Breaking Walls episode 116, it’s June of 1955 and network radio is in uncharted territory. TV’s encroachment has the entire industry looking for new ideas. We’ll focus on the launch of one of the most successful—Monitor—which will air in some form or fashion until January of 1975. —————————— Highlights: • The Changing Network Radio Landscape • Who Is Sylvester “Pat” Weaver? • Monitor Origins • Building the Team • Radio Cental • The Soft Launch • An Auto Tragedy at Le Mans • Going to Alcatraz • Lots of Tunes in Remote • A Potential United Automobile Workers Strike • Dave Garroway Interviews Marilyn Monroe, live on Monitor • Fibber McGee and Gildy Too • Here’s Henry Morgan • Monitor’s Last Hour • Miss Monitor Finally Makes an Appearance • The Full Launch • Looking Ahead in Time and Space —————————— The WallBreakers: http://thewallbreakers.com Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts. To support the show: http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers —————————— The reading material used in today’s episode was: On the Air - By John Dunning Monitor: Take 2: By Dennis Hart Network Radio Ratings — by Jim Ramsburg Articles from: Broadcasting-Telecasting Magazine Monthly Labor Review The New York Daily News The New York Times Newsweek Printer’s Ink Variety As well as the websites: http://accordions.com/ for their interview with Art Van Damme Dennis Hart’s http://monitorbeacon.net/ http://tipsontables.com/ —————————— On the interview front: • Pat Weaver was interviewed for Fred Allen’s May 29th, 1956 Biography In Sound. • Ben Grauer was interviewed for NBC’s 50th Anniversary and Westinghouse’ 50th Anniversary. • Dave Garroway and Willard Waterman spoke with Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingOfRadio.com. • Jim Jordan was with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear this full interview at Goldenage-WTIC.org. —————————— Selected music featured in today’s episode was: • Shangri-La — By the New Spike Jones Band • Maris’ Farewell — By George Winston • Moon Moods — By Les Baxter & His Orchestra —————————— Special thanks to: The Fireside Mystery Theatre https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com/ The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/ Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight https://www.twelvechimesradio.com/ —————————— Subscribe to Burning Gotham—the new audio drama set in 1835 New York City. It’s available everywhere you get your podcasts and at BurningGotham.com. —————————— A massive thank you to Gordon Skene and Dennis Hart for their contributions to this episode. Gordon maintains a tremendous sound collection. You can visit his site at PastDaily.com. Dennis Hart is the preeminent Monitor researcher. If this subject interests you pick up Monitor: Take 2, or go to MonitorBeacon.net. —————————— Thank you to: Tony Adams Steven Allmon Orson Orsen Chandler Phil Erickson Briana Isaac Thomas M. Joyce Ryan Kramer Gary Mollica Barry Nadler Christian Neuhaus Aimee Pavy Chris Pilkington —————————— WallBreakers Links: Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

We take you back to New Year's Eve 1965, when Johnny Carson throws it to the NBC announcer Ben Grauer, who delivers the countdown and recap of the year, from the Allied Chemical Building in Times Square. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tom-saunders9/support

On October 31st, 1948 at 4:35PM from WNBC in New York, Living 1948 took to the air with a drama called “Let’s Sit This One Out” focused on registered voters who don’t vote. Living 1948 was conceived as a “radio mirror” of contemporary U.S. life. The shows ranged from surveys, to dramatic histories, to commentaries. Hosted by Ben Grauer, it featured some of New York’s best radio actors like Art Carney, Alexander Scourby, Claudia Morgan, Marilyn Erskine, and Barry Thomson. CBS taking note, launched The People Act to rival the program. By late 1948, their network competition was in its third decade.

In Breaking Walls episode 108 we go back to October 31st, 1948 and open a five-part mini series on that season’s business and programming. —————————— Highlights: • You Are There • Dewey V Truman • Let’s Sit This One Out • Halloween 1948 in New York over the Mutual Broadcasting System • Ozzie and Harriet Visit a Haunted House • Jack Benny Goes Trick-or-Treating for a New Network • Phil Harris and Alice Faye • Sam Spade, Rocky Jordan, and Connie Brooks • Walter Winchell Spits Fire • Cabin B-13 • A Tremendous Election Upset • Looking Ahead to Thanksgiving 1948 —————————— The WallBreakers: http://thewallbreakers.com Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts. To support the show: http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers —————————— The reading material used in today’s episode was: • Sunday Nights at Seven — By Jack and Joan Benny • On the Air — By John Dunning • Network Radio Ratings, 1932-53 — By Jim Ramsburg • WOR Radio 1922-1982 As well as articles from the archives of • The Los Angeles Times • The New York Daily News • The New York Times • Radio Daily • The Saturday Evening Post. —————————— On the interview front: • Eve Arden, Jack Benny, Alice Faye, Phil Harris, Elliott Lewis, Bret Morrison, and Lurene Tuttle were with Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingOfRadio.com. • Hans Conried, Howard Duff, and June Havoc were with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear these at Goldenage-WTIC.org. • Dick Joy spoke with John Dunning for 71KNUS. • Ben Grauer spoke with Westinghouse in 1970. —————————— Selected music featured in today’s episode was: • Danse Macabre — by Camille Saint-Saëns (Camille San Sons) • I’ll Take Manhattan — By Blossom Dearie • Ghost Bus Tours — By George Fenton • The Look of Love — By Nelson Riddle • Verdi’s Macbeth Overture — Conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli • Flag of Columbia — By Jacqueline Schwab • Over The River and Through The Woods — By the U.S. Air Force Band —————————— Subscribe to Burning Gotham—the new audio drama set in 1835 New York City. It’s available everywhere you get your podcasts and at BurningGotham.com. —————————— A special thank you to Ted Davenport and Jerry Haendiges: two radio show collectors who helped supply material for this episode. They’re who the large retailers go to. Ted’s got a Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/otrteddavenport/ For Jerry, please visit http://otrsite.com/ I’d also like to thank Walden Hughes and John and Larry Gassman of SPERDVAC - http://sperdvac.com/ —————————— Thank you to: Tony Adams Steven Allmon Orson Orsen Chandler Briana Isaac Thomas M. Joyce Ryan Kramer Barry Nadler Christian Neuhaus Aimee Pavy Chris Pilkington —————————— WallBreakers Links: Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers Social Media - @TheWallBreakers URL - thewallbreakers.com

For Westinghouse's 50th Anniversary in 1970, longtime NBC radio announcer Ben Grauer spoke about being on his toes with news relays during World War II.

Long-time radio announcer Ben Grauer on the buttoned-up nature of radio in the 1930s.

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In 1955 NBC, CBS, ABC, and Mutual Broadcasting were looking for ways to pivot programming with cost-effectiveness and a more mobile audience in mind. Studies were showing that at least half of radio's audiences were now coming from automobile or transistor sets. Yet, there was still only rudimentary ways to measure these ratings. With network radio drama was winding down in the 1950s in favor of more news, talk, and music, NBC launched Monitor on June 12th, 1955 with this closed circuit broadcast. Monitor was a true magazine of the air, running over NBC stations on Saturday mornings in four-hour blocks. When it first began, it took over NBC’s airtime for the entire weekend. It was the brainchild of legendary NBC radio and television network president Pat Weaver, whose career bridged classic radio and television's infancy and who sought to keep radio alive in a television age. Believing that broadcasting could and should educate as well as entertain, Weaver fashioned a series to do both with some of the best-remembered and best-regarded names in broadcasting, entertainment, journalism, and literature taking part. Monitor offered actualities, remotes, comedy, and variety. Segments were hosted by and featured by the likes of NBC announcers Dave Garroway and Ben Grauer, to baseball’s Red Barber, to Ms. Monitor Tedi Thurman who did weather reports, and to comedians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding. The show aired from a custom-designed, mammoth NBC studio on the fifth floor of the RCA Building in New York City called Radio Central. Monitor remained on the air until January 26th, 1975.

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Democracy In America 14 of 14 Conclusion. April 18, 1962. "These Precious Premises". The final program of the series. "A study in politcal optimism." Alexis de Tocqueville (author), George Probst (Professor of History at NYU, director of preparation), Andrew Allen (CBC producer), Lister Sinclair (writer), Lucio Agostini (music), Ben Grauer (announcer).oldtimeradiodvd.com

Democracy In America 13 of 14 . April 11, 1962. "The Happy Republic".  "A study in American values." Alexis de Tocqueville (author), George Probst (Professor of History at NYU, director of preparation, writer), Andrew Allen (CBC producer), Lucio Agostini (music), Lister Sinclair (writer), Ben Grauer (announcer). oldtimeradiodvd.com

Democracy In America 12 of 14. April 4, 1962. P "The Aristocrats Of Democracy". "A study in American law and lawyers." Alexis de Tocqueville (author), George Probst (Professor of History at NYU, director of preparation, writer), Andrew Allen (CBC producer), Lister Sinclair (writer), Lucio Agostini (music), Ben Grauer (announcer).oldtimeradiodvd.com

Democracy In America 11 of 14 . March 28, 1962. "The Chief Instrument Of Freedom".  "A study in th American press." Alexis de Tocqueville (author), George Probst (Professor of History at NYU, director of preparation), Andrew Allen (CBC producer), Lister Sinclair (writer), Lucio Agostini (music), Ben Grauer (announcer).oldtimeradiodvd.com

Democracy In America 10 of 14 . March 21, 1962. "Common Sense and Moonshine". S "A study in American education." Alexis de Tocqueville (author), George Probst (Professor of History at NYU, director of preparation), Andrew Allen (CBC producer), Lister Sinclair (writer), Lucio Agostini (music), Ben Grauer (announcer). oldtimeradiodvd.com

Democracy In America 9 of 14. March 14, 1962. "The Tyranny Of The Majority" "A study in American freedom." Alexis de Tocqueville (author), George Probst (Professor of History at NYU, director of preparation), Andrew Allen (CBC producer), Lister Sinclair (writer), Lucio Agostini (music), Ben Grauer (announcer), Ray Barrett (system cue announcer). oldtimeradiodvd.com

Democracy In America 8 of 14. March 7, 1962."The Heavenly Prison".  "A study in American Reform." Alexis de Tocqueville (author), George Probst (Professor of History at NYU, director of preparation), Andrew Allen (CBC producer), Lister Sinclair (writer), Lucio Agostini (music), Ben Grauer (announcer).oldtimeradiodvd.com

Democracy In America 7 of 14. February 28, 1962. "The Cold Water Army".  "A study in American Progress." Alexis de Tocqueville (author), George Probst (Professor of History at NYU, director of preparation), Andrew Allen (CBC producer), Lister Sinclair (writer), Lucio Agostini (music), Ben Grauer (announcer).oldtimeradiodvd.com

Democracy In America 6 of 14. February 21, 1962."The Cement Of Democracy".  "A study in American religion." Alexis de Tocqueville (author), George Probst (Professor of History at NYU, director of preparation), Andrew Allen (CBC producer), Lister Sinclair (writer), Lucio Agostini (music), Ben Grauer (announcer). oldtimeradiodvd.com

Democracy In America 5 of 14. February 14, 1962. . "Any Woman Is A Lady".  "A study in American Manners." Alexis de Tocqueville (author), George Probst (Professor of History at NYU, director of preparation), Lister Sinclair (writer), Andrew Allen (CBC producer), Lucio Agostini (music), Ben Grauer (announcer).oldtimeradiodvd.com

Democracy In America 4 of 14. February 7, 1962. "The Arc Of Civilization".  "A study in American character." Alexis de Tocqueville (author), George Probst (Professor of History at NYU, director of preparation), Andrew Allen (CBC producer), Lister Sinclair (writer), Lucio Agostini (music), Ben Grauer (announcer).oldtimeradiodvd.com

Democracy In America 3 of 14. January 31, 1962.  "The 4th Of July In Albany, 1831" "A study in American independance." Alexis de Tocqueville (author), George Probst (Professor of History at NYU, director of preparation), Andrew Allen (CBC producer), Lister Sinclair (writer), Lucio Agostini (music), Ben Grauer (announcer).oldtimeradiodvd.com

Democracy In America 2 of 14. January 24, 1962."The Governor In The Boarding House". Sustaining. "A study in American equality." Alexis de Tocqueville (author), George Probst (Professor of History at NYU, director of preparation), Andrew Allen (CBC producer), Lister Sinclair (writer), Lucio Agostini (music), Ben Grauer (announcer).oldtimeradiodvd.com

Democracy In America 1 of 14. January 17, 1962. "Where Could I Be Better Off?".   Dramatizations of portions of the 1831 book by de Tocqueville, dealing with his tour of America. "A study in Jacksonian America." Alexis de Tocqueville (author), George Probst (Professor of History at NYU, director of preparation), Andrew Allen (CBC producer), Lister Sinclair (writer), Lucio Agostini (music), Ben Grauer (announcer), Ray Barrett (system cue announcer).oldtimeradiodvd,coom

The Lux Radio Theatre. October 28, 1935.  This is a prototypical role for ZaSu as a well-meaning but scatterbrained wife, determined to "help" her husband put through a big merger. . George S. Kaufman (author), Harold Vermilyea, James Marr, Leslie Adams, Clifford Walker, ZaSu Pitts, Gene Lockhart, Donald Foster, Douglas Garrick (host), Marc Connelly (author), Mary Mason, Mary Newton, Stuart Fox, Ben Grauer (announcer)audiblepodcast.com/rnn 1 Free Audiobook  oldtimeradionetwork.com   oldtimeradiodvd.com Great Deals on DVDs

In this edition of Galaxy Moonbeam Night Site, Ian Rose gives a salute to Centenarians, famous persons born 100 years ago. Among the personalities Ian remembers are Jacques Cousteau, Norman Corwin, Himan Brown, and Mother Teresa, among others. Mike, Smitty, and Ian discuss whether Ipods, SmartPhones and digital media are killing radio. Also what radio is doing to stay competitive in this digital age. Ian remembers Mitch Miller, the Maestro of the Singalong, who passed away in August 2010. Our Retro-Commercial is a Delta Airlines commercial from 1976, voiced by the legendary NBC announcer Ben Grauer. Galaxy Moonbeam Night Site is the nostalgia show produced in San Diego by three "older" baby-boomers who work in the local radio and TV industry. In these approximately one-half hour shows, The Galaxy Guys chat it up about the music, movies, TV shows, technology and personalities of the 1940s through early 1980s.

Big Band Serenade presents Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. June 18, 1938. Blue Network. A band remote from the Paradise Restaurant, New York City. The first musical selection is, "The Butcher Boy."  Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, Gail Reese (vocal), Ray Eberle (vocal), Tex Beneke (vocal), Ben Grauer (announcer)