SHORT OUT LINE OF THE HISTORY OF
RADIO
1922 -- KOAC, Corvallis, OR obtains a license for
KFDJ, the Nation's first Public Broadcasting
Station.

1922 -- Aug 28. The first radio commercial is
broadcast over WEAF, New York for The
Queensboro Corporation..
1923 -- Jan 1st. KHJ, Los Angeles broadcasts the
first New Years Day Rose Bowl Game from
Pasadena.

"network" or "chain broadcasting" is born.
1923 -- Feb 2nd. Transcontinental network
broadcast links WEAF, New York and KPO, San
Francisco (the Hale's Department Store
Broadcasting Station).

1924 -- The first Network-sponsored broadcast --
'The Eveready Hour' -- from WEAF, New York, to
WCAP and WJAR sponsored by National Carbon
Company.
telephone lines.

1927 -- United Independent Broadcasters is
reorganized as Columbia Broadcasting System
(CBS), with an initial network of 47 member
stations.

1927 -- Apr 5th. NBC establishes it's 'Orange'
Network on the West Coast, comprised of seven
Pacific Coast stations: KPO and KGO, San
Francisco, KFI, Los Angeles, KFOA, Seattle
(followed shortly after by KOMO), KGW, Portland,
and KHQ, Spokane.

1927 -- The Radio Act of 1927 establishes 'public
ownership of the airwaves'.

1928 -- Jan 4th. NBC's first coast to coast network
broadcast consists of 47 stations spanning the
continental United States.
1929 -- Jan 3rd. William Paley incorporates the
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).

1932 -- Yiddish newspaper, 'The Forward'
purchases WEVD, New York and expands the
popular reach and availability of Yiddish Radio
with their famous, long-running show, 'The
Forward Hour'.

1933 -- September. Comedian and Vaudevillian Ed
Wynn creates his Amalgamated Broadcast System
(ABS), which subsequently folds in November the
same year (costing him over 300,000
post-Depression era dollars in the process).

1934 -- The Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS) is
formed as a cooperative network between WOR
in New York, WGN in Chicago, WLW in Cinncinatti,
and WXYZ in Detroit..

1935 -- Four National networks and twenty
Regional networks are broadcasting
programming everywhere in the United States, 24
hours a day.

1936 -- The Canadian Broadcasting Company
(CBC) goes on the air.

1939 -- NBC begins regular daily Television
broadcasts throughout the U.S.

1942 -- The Voice of America is formed to provide
overseas propaganda to foreign nations.

1942 -- Armed Forces Radio creates a world-wide
network -- the Armed Forces Radio Network -- of
radio stations aimed to support and entertain
troops overseas.

1943 -- NBC's 'Red' and 'Blue' networks are split
up by federal decree. ABC is formed from the
purchase of The Blue Network

1944 -- The Blue Network becomes the American
Broadcasting Company (ABC).

1946 -- November. WEAF, New York becomes
WNBC and WABC, New York becomes WCBS.

1953 -- WJZ New York becomes WABC under the
American Broadcasting Company.

1954 -- The National Negro Network is founded
with an initial network of 40 member stations.

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"Fibber
McGee &
Molly"
THE PROGRAM'S HISTORY
From Smackout to Wistful Vista
If Smackout proved the Jordan-Quinn union's viability,
their next creation proved immortal. Amplifying Luke
Grey's tall talesmanship to braggadocio in a
Midwestern layabout, Quinn developed Fibber McGee
and Molly, with Jim playing the foible-prone Fibber and
Marian playing his patient, common sense,
honey-natured wife. The show premiered on NBC April
16, 1935, and, though it took five seasons to become
an irrevocable hit, it touched a nerve with enough
listeners seeking cheer amid despair. In 1935, Jim
Jordan won the Burlington Liars' Club championship
with a story about catching an elusive rat.[4]

Existing in a kind of Neverland where money never
came in, schemes never stayed out for very long, yet
no one living or visiting went wanting, 79 Wistful Vista
(the McGees' address) became the home
Depression-exhausted Americans visited to remind
themselves that they were not the only ones finding
cheer in the middle of struggle and doing their best
not to make it overt. With blowhard McGee wavering
between mundane tasks and hare-brained schemes
(like digging an oil well in the back yard), antagonizing
as many people as possible, and patient Molly
indulging his foibles before catching him lovingly as he
crashed back to Earth yet again, not to mention a
tireless parade of neighbours and friends in and out
of the quiet home, Fibber McGee and Molly built its
audience steadily, but once it found the full volume of
that audience in 1940 they rarely let go of it.

Marian Jordan took a protracted absence from the
show in late 1938 to early 1939 to deal with a lifelong
battle with alcoholism, although this was attributed to
"fatigue" in public statements at the time. The show
was retitled Fibber McGee and Company during this
interregnum, with scripts cleverly working around
Molly's absence (Fibber making a speech at a
convention, etc.). Comedienne ZaSu Pitts appeared
on the Fibber McGee and Company show, as did
singer Donald Novis.
Treasury Star
Parade - Pgm 253
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molly
Fibber Mcgee
and Molly -
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