| 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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| (from the dec 30th 1947 fort atkinson wi newspaper) |
| NOSTALGIA RADIO'S STAR OF THE MONTH THE BICKERSONS |
| THE RADIO HISTORY The Bickersons was created by Philip Rapp, the one- time Eddie Cantor writer who had also created the Fanny Brice skits (for The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air and Maxwell House Coffee Time) that grew into radio's Baby Snooks. Several years after the latter established itself a long-running favorite, Rapp developed and presented John and Blanche Bickerson, first as a short sketch on The Old Gold Show and The Chase and Sanborn Hour (the show that made stars of Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy), and then as a 15-minute situational sketch as part of Drene Time. This was a variety show starring Don Ameche and singer-actress Frances Langford as co-hosts, airing on NBC and sponsored by Drene Shampoo. Announcing the show—and later familiar to television viewers as The Millionaire's presenter and executive secretary, Michael Anthony—was Marvin Miller. Drene Time typically opened with Langford singing a big band-style arrangement before Ameche and Langford would slip into routine comedy, often aided by co-star Danny Thomas, in routines that often expressed Ameche's frustration that Thomas was more interested in modern technology and discoveries than in women. After another musical number and a commercial spot for Drene Shampoo, Miller would announce Ameche and Langford as the Bickersons, "in 'The Honeymoon's Over'," for the final 15 minutes of the show. |