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I am a fan of classic radio shows and I notice that until at least the late 1930s, what we know as the city of Los Angeles, California, was always referred to phonetically as, “Los Angle-Es”. Do any of our old timers or young timers with more knowledge than myself here know, or remember when, the pronunciation change was made, and by who, and why? You can hear this formerly de facto pronunciation in old radio shows from the 1930s such as this example - https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/case-closed-old-time-radio/id219708992?l=en&i I appreciate you all accepting my Vanity post.

As Vision is traveling, maybe I can post a thread for him. 7 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar“The Bennett Matter” Part 3 (CBS, Original air date February 22, 1956)(Running time 14:45)7:15 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar“The Bennett Matter” Part 4 (CBS, Original air date February 23, 1956)(Running time 14:45)7:30 p.m. My Favorite Husband“Liz Writes a Song” (CBS, Original air date January 27, 1950)(Running time 29:25)8:00 p.m. The Grass Asp“Burning Wagon” (CBS, AFRTS rebroadcast, Original air date December 7, 1958, 1958)(Running time 19:24)8:20 p.m. Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands“Duke Ellington” (Original recording date November 27, 1943)(Running time 15:11)8:30 p.m. Dragnet Program #62 “The Big Youngster” (NBC, Original air date August 19, 1950)(Running time 26:48)9:00 p.m. The...

Before folks sat around the TV watching American Horror Story or classic movies like The Shining and Friday the 13th, they gathered around the radio to listen to their favorite weekly programs. Many of them were comedies or dramas, just like today’s television programs, but there were also shows dedicated to the creepy crawly — that made goosebumps rise and sent shivers down the spine. It’s often said that what you can’t see is scarier than what you can, and radio programs can sweep you up and create a whole spooky world in your imagination. With Halloween coming this weekend,...

Columbia Workshop: The Plot to Overthrow Christmas (CBS, 24 December 1942)One or another way, Christmas Eve broadcasts over classic (1927-62) network radio will survive to be heard by generations who weren't alive when radio was the world's primary conductor of home entertainment. These can be considered some of the finest gifts the era bequeathed, even unto generations jaded enough by video and cinematic excess and ubiquity that you fear their inability to appreciate what one radio show's customary introduction called "the theater of the mind." The offerings range from the sublime to the ridiculous and back to the absurd and...

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Friends, it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana. Listen Live Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow. Official OTR Blog of "The Big Broadcast" thread. http://kallmansalley.com/

Our annual Christmas Day radio listening merely begins with two jewels from a master satirist: The Linit Bath Club Revue: The Mammoth Department Store (CBS, 1932) Here’s a treat for any old-time radio fan—the oldest known surviving program hosted by the singular Fred Allen, in whose spotlight sketch he plays a man with a sometimes unenviable profession: managing a department store . . . on the day after Christmas. Hopefully, without driving himself crazy. Cast: Portland Hoffa, Sheila Barrett, Roy Atwell, Charles Carlile. Announcer: Ken Roberts. Music: Lou Katzman Orchestra, Mary Leaf at the organ. Writer: Fred Allen. Texaco Star...

I’m not convinced that I can possibly improve upon this particular entry from Christmas Eves past, so I’ll continue this journal’s little tradition. For all who celebrate, and for anyone sorely in need of extra cheer this and any such season, today’s offerings are dedicated, as always. Columbia Workshop: The Plot to Overthrow Christmas (CBS, 24 December 1942) Set in hell, delivered in verse (some of it, admittedly, is a little on the awkward side but the archness of the delivery and the quality of the bulk makes up for it), some of history’s most notorious villains to that point...

Lum & Abner: Christmas Story (CBS, 1938) “We try,” co-creator Chester Lauck has told Radio Guide, “to make our program amusing through the situations we build up rather than through the ignorance or obtuseness of any character.” And if you’re looking for an individual episode that proves every word he said is true, even telling a story outside Lum & Abner‘s customary serial style, you’ll find one today. The Pine Ridge philosophickers are just as good in leaving you to imagine a crawl through the worst of the rural winter as a potbelly stove burning and wares occasionally clacking and...

Alice Ludes, a radio star who appeared in many Hollywood musicals, turned 102 in Ventura Saturday. Ludes entertained guests by playing the piano at her birthday party at a retirement home in Ventura.

Friends, it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana. Listen Live Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow. "The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area. Each week, Big Broadcast host Ed Walker offers listeners priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s. Priceless, especially, for a man whose first sentence as a child was, 'Turn the radio on.'" Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...

I found this particular old time radio episode very reminiscent of themes in Star Trek, Outer Limits, Ray Bradbury, and Twilight Zone. Furthermore, it was very interesting to hear about the "Holodeck" and distopian, robotic, disassociated society the family lives in. I think you will find the same similarities and more, and look forward to comments. You can find this episode at http://archive.org. I posted the original podcast link to give props to the podcast that put this one online for their show.

Friends, it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana. Listen Live Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow. "The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area. Each week, Big Broadcast host Ed Walker offers listeners priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s. Priceless, especially, for a man whose first sentence as a child was, 'Turn the radio on.' "

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Vision is out today, so I'm posting the thread. I'm sorry I don't have his Big Broadcast ping list.Here's the listen live link. Thanks to J. David Goldin's RadioGOLDINdex for these brief synopses. 7:00 PM EST Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. February 16, 1956. Part 4. CBS net. "The Qui Bono Matter". Sustaining. A tense interview, a sudden attack by a dangerous opponent, and a complete surrender. The system cue has been deleted. Bob Bailey, Roy Rowan (announcer), Les Crutchfield (writer), Jack Johnstone (producer, director), D. J. Thompson, Byron Kane, Howard McNear, Mary Jane Croft, Forrest Lewis, Russell Thorson, Dal McKinnon,...

Here’s an unbelievable collection of all the old time radio shows. This is a chance to go back in time, and listen to radio. Find your favorite, click on it, and listen to all the episodes.

The Education Question 1092. Speaking of education, what is the real reason for Catholic antipathy to our state schools? Whatever others may think of our public policy of free, compulsory, and secular education, Catholics cannot in conscience accept that system as being suitable for the education of Catholic children. The real reason is that the religious training of the children is not sufficiently provided for, the time allotted for religion being quite inadequate, even were it utilized. The State system demands the "3 R's," reading, writing and arithmetic. Catholic principles demand the "4 R's," religion, reading, writing and arithmetic; and...

The Inner Sanctum Mysteries: The Melody of Death (CBS, 1944) He has reached his centenary still alive and (one hopes) well, far enough older than commercial radio itself, for which he created some of the best—or, at least, some of the most memorable—programs old-time radio had to offer. From the first known CBS daytime soap opera (The Little French Princess) to The CBS Radio Mystery Theater, whose concept of resurrecting old-style radio drama was as imperative as its execution was inconsistent, and no few stops in between. Such stops as The Adventures of The Thin Man, Bulldog Drummond, Flash Gordon,...

It's a little-known fact that Windows Media Center can tune in local FM radio stations--provided, that is, you have an FM tuner connected to your PC (some internal TV tuner cards include one) and a good antenna. Hey, this is the Internet age, right? Why mess around with 80-year-old technology that pulls in maybe two dozen stations (if you're lucky) when you can stream over 100,000 radio stations from across the planet? RadioTime is a free radio-streaming service that lets any computer user do exactly that. But if you're a Windows Media Center user, you can grab the RadioTime WMC...

Bear in mind that some of the following actually did air on Christmas days past. But if you're any kind of old-time radio nut---and I am, certifiable, glazed, and dry-roasted---you have got to love the cornucopia of surviving Christmas-themed radio shows. (No, Virginia, this nice Jewish boy does not have a problem with what amounts to saying "Happy birthday!" to a nice Jewish boy!) You could consider the survival of these shows something of a miracle in itself. (When you consider that a lot of the original sponsors and even network outlets saw fit to trash several thousand shellac discs...