| 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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| 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. |
