SEPTEMBER IN THE GOLDEN AGE
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SEP 1   1932   Powerful KSL/Salt Lake City leaves NBC to affiliate with CBS.
SEP 1   1935   NBC’s WMAQ/Chicago increases its power to 50,000 watts giving the city five maximum power stations.
SEP 1   1936   CBS takes control of KNX/Los Angeles.
SEP 1   1936   GOP Presidential candidate Alf Landon recommends lengthening radio station license periods from six months to five years.
SEP 1   1936   NBC takes over management of Westinghouse owned KYW/Philadelphia from the Levy brothers, owners  of WCAU in that city. 
SEP 1   1936   Indicative of Hollywood’s increased radio production, ad agency J. Walter Thompson increases its Los Angeles staff from two to 25 employees. 
SEP 1   1936   NBC commentator John B. Kennedy tells a San Francisco convention of RCA dealers that practical television is still five to ten years away.
SEP 1   1936   Rudy Vallee punches a patron whom he suspected of throwing a bottle at him on the bandstand at the Canadian National Exposition in Toronto.  (See Thursday’s All Time Top Ten on this site.)
SEP 1   1937   CBS, billing itself as “The World’s Largest Network” issues a new rate card, charging $21,770 for an evening hour on its full chain of 104 stations.  (See CBS Rates - Go Figure! on this site.)
SEP 1   1937   Chicago based Lady Esther Cosmetics, a virtually unknown brand in 1931 turned radio success story with its sponsorship of Wayne King’s orchestra, fires its ad agency Stack-Gobel for competitor Pedlar & Ryan. (See The Waltz King on this site.)
SEP 1   1938   WQXR/New York City broadcasts a tape recording of the first act of Carmen recorded in London with the Millerfilm process, common in Europe but new to the United States..
SEP 1   1939   Germany’s invasion of Poland receives fulltime coverage by the network news bureaus.
SEP 1   1939   Tennessee Valley Authority lawyer James J. Fly succeeds Frank R. McNinch as Chairman of the FCC.  
SEP 1   1939  Ford presents six live, non-broadcast stage performances of The Green Hornet for ten days at its Michigan State Fair pavilion.  
SEP 1   1941   NBC enforces its ban on songs with a propaganda message for any cause on its sustaining programs and refuses to clear the title or lyrics of V For Victory.
SEP 1   1941   WOR/New York City refuses to broadcast one-minute commercials after 6:00 p.m.
SEP 1   1941   Congressman Luther Daniel of Alabama begins a 15 minute weekday afternoon human interest commentary on WWDC/Washington for a reported $50 dollars a week.
SEP 1   1941   Philco begins operating W3XE(TV)/Philadelphia 15 hours a week on a 60 day commercial license.
SEP 1   1942   NBC drops its identification as The Red Network.
SEP 1   1944   General Foods moves The Aldrich Family - a Top Ten Show on NBC’s Thursday schedule for four seasons - to CBS on Friday nights where it drops to 18th in the Annual Top 50.  (See The Aldrich Family on this site.)
SEP 1   1944   WJR/Detroit bans commercials in the middle of its local newscasts.
SEP 1   1945   Technical and censorship problems are blamed for the 90 minute delay of the network pool broadcast of the Japanese surrender ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri narrated by NBC’s Merrill Mueller and Webley Edwards of CBS.  (See V-J Day on this site.)
SEP 1   1945   President Truman’s address during the Japanese surrender ceremonies registers a 46.8 Hooperating.
SEP 1   1946   CBS releases a survey indicating that 54% of women at home in the daytime listen to soap operas for an average of 90 minutes daily.
SEP 1   1947   Mutual joins ABC, CBS and NBC subscribing to the Nielsen Index Rating service, providing A.C. Nielsen with a combined annual network revenue of over $125,000.
SEP 1   1947   Producers begin writing children out of New York City radio shows as a new law prohibits kids under 16 from appearing without written consent by their guardians followed by a certificate of approval from the Mayor’s office.  
SEP 1   1947   DuMont sets new rates for its WABD(TV)/New York City with 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. quoted at $80 per minute and $800 per hour. (See Dr. DuMont’s Predictions on this site.)
SEP 1   1947   Gillette pays $100,000 to Major League Baseball for television rights to the 1947 World Series.
SEP 1   1948   The CBS raid on NBC’s comedy stars begins as CBS buys Amos & Andy from Freeman Gosden & Charles Correll for $2.5 Million over three years. The comedians two are taxed at the 25% capital gains rate instead of the 80% income tax bracket. The plan then has CBS leasing Gosden & Correll’s services to Lever Brothers as technical advisors for “a minimal salary”.   
SEP 1   1948   MCA receives a 10% commission in the $2.5 Million sale of Amos & Andy to CBS.
SEP 1   1948   The Chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the FCC describes the Commission’s Scott Decision granting time to atheist and other groups, “unfortunate,” and calls for a revision.
SEP 1   1949   Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer begins the syndication of four radio series based on its movie properties The Hardy Family, Dr. Kildare, Maisie and Crime Does Not Pay plus the all-star MGM Theater of The Air.  (See The 1949-50 Season on this site.)
SEP 1   1950   The Adventures of The Thin Man leaves the air after a nine year, multi-network run.  (See The Curse of Dashiell  Hammett on this site.)
SEP 1   1950   News analyst Quincy Howe, 50, leaves Network Radio after 12 years to teach journalism at the University of Illinois.
SEP 1   1950   AT&T opens its relay system providing a live television link between New York and Chicago.
SEP 1   1950   By a split vote of 4-2-1, the FCC issues its color television report favoring the CBS mechanical system but gives set manufacturers a month to respond before making the decision final. 
SEP 1   1952   ABC, CBS and NBC cut nighttime radio rates by 25%.
SEP 1   1953   NBC Radio announces “revamping” its schedule with 28 new programs including Six Shooter starring James Stewart and Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune.
SEP 1   1953   CBS Radio tells affiliates of a “six-figure“ promotional campaign for its fall schedule including new shows 21st Precinct, Crime Classics and The Johnny Mercer Show. (See CBS Packages Unwrapped on this site.)

SEP 2   1928   Jack Benny and wife Mary Livingston make their film debut in Warner Brothers’ ten-minute short, Bright Moments.
SEP 2   1931   CBS begins a six month run of Fifteen Minutes With Bing Crosby six nights week.
SEP 2   1932   Networks begin to encourage audiences with applause and laughter to its major variety shows at the insistence of their stars.
SEP 2   1934   Early network singing star Russ Columbo dies in a freak shooting accident at age 26.
SEP 2   1935   WQAM/Miami becomes a key emergency station as the Labor Day Category 5 hurricane strikes southeast Florida killing more than 400, mostly in the Florida Keys.
SEP 2   1936   Blue begins nine weeks of broadcasting results of the Literary Digest's Presidential Poll in three 15 minute programs per week hosted by commentator John B. Kennedy.
SEP 2   1940   Stromberg-Carlson becomes the first radio set manufacturer to advertise its FM receivers
SEP 2   1941   NBC announces the completion of its Pan American Network with 92 stations agreeing to rebroadcast programs transmitted by NBC’s international shortwave stations, WRCA and WNBI.
SEP 2   1941   Popular New York City women’s show host Mary Margaret McBride moves her weekday program from WABC to WEAF with a special episode at the Vanderbilt Theater. 
SEP 2   1941   Campana’s First Nighter returns for its 12th season on Network Radio, its fourth straight on CBS.  (See Friday’s All Time Top Ten on this site.) 
SEP 2   1942   One Man’s Family and I Love A Mystery actor Walter Patterson, 31, is found dead in his car, an apparent suicide. 
SEP 2   1943   FCC denies the CIO’s petition to intervene in hearings regarding RCA’s sale of the Blue Network to Edward Noble.
SEP 2   1944   Veteran radio entertainer Ed McConnell, 62, begins his nine year run with Smilin’ Ed’s Buster Brown Gang on NBC’s Saturday morning schedule.  He also hosted an NBC-TV version of the show from 1950 to 1955.
SEP 2   1945   The half-hour AFRS Sunday night salute to the Armed Forces with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra and President Truman’s Victory speech to the Military on most stations scores scores a 31.3 Hooperating.
SEP 2   1946   ABC’s Breakfast Club becomes totally sold out and the highest gross billing hour in Network Radio at $4.44 Million annually.
SEP 2   1946   The political action committee of the CIO instructs its unions’ members to complain to the FCC if local stations refuse to grant free time for its transcribed messages.
SEP 2   1946   Mutual’s weeknight news commentaries of Fulton Lewis, Jr., reaches a record 207 stations buying the co-op program for local sale.
SEP 2   1946   NBC’s WNBT(TV)/New York City completes its Labor Day weekend of sports coverage with the National Tennis Championships from Forest Hills. 
SEP 2   1949   AFM boss James Petrillo demands that his members who are also members of the American Guild of Variety Artists cancel their AGVA memberships “immediately”.  (See Petrillo! on this site.)
SEP 2   1950   Frank Graham, 35 year old lead of Jeff Regan, Investigator and producer-star of Satan’s Waitin’ - both CBS shows - is found dead in his car, an obvious suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. 
SEP 2   1950   Singer Snooky Lanson begins a five year contract to appear on both the weekly radio and television versions of Your Hit Parade.  
SEP 2   1953   ABC Radio offers its 363 affiliates a record 18 different co-op programs totaling over 20 hours per week for local sale.  

SEP 3   1929   Rudy Vallee’s weekly variety show for Standard Brands, (originally The Fleischmann Yeast Hour), begins its ten year Thursday night run on NBC 
SEP 3   1934   WHAM/Rochester, New York, announces that it will no longer accept paid political advertising.
SEP 3   1935   Scripps-Howard newspapers enters broadcasting with an application to purchase WFBE/Cincinnati and change its call sign to WCPO, representing The Cincinnati Post.
SEP 3   1935   NBC sells out all periods in its prime time schedule except one half hour on Tuesday night and another 30 minute period on Sunday night.  CBS and Blue also report near sell-out status.
SEP 3   1935   CBS and NBC charge that an ANPA brochure minimizing the value and effec-tiveness of broadcast advertising contains errors and misrepresentations. 
SEP 3   1936   CBS sends newsman H.V. Kaltenborn, 58, to Spain to provide shortwave dispatches from the Spanish Civil War.
SEP 3   1936   Maxwell House Showboat’s afternoon dress rehearsal and two evening broad-casts draw a record breaking total audience of 32,000 at Cleveland’s Great Lakes Exposition. 
SEP 3   1939   The networks carry shortwave reports at 6:14 a.m. that Great Britain and France have declared war on Nazi Germany.
SEP 3   1939   WJR/Detroit is accused by Michigan Governor Luren Dickinson of censoring his planned speech denouncing the evils of modern, cheek-to-cheek dancing. 
SEP 3   1939   The Chase & Sanborn Hour with Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy is broadcast from Honolulu where Bergen is vacationing.
SEP 3   1939   The networks report at 11:13 p.m. that German torpedoes have sunk the first British ship in World War II - the civilian cruise ship Athenia 250 miles west of Ireland - killing 117 persons.
SEP 3   1941   Lowell Thomas moderates a two hour retrospective on Blue reviewing Network Radio’s part in covering the two years of war as seen by the reporters and commentators on NBC’s two networks.
SEP 3   1943   Bob Hope, accompanied by Frances Langford, Tony Romano and Jack Pepper, returns from an eleven week, 20,000 mile USO tour to Great Britain, North Africa and Sicily, performing over 160 camp and hospital shows. 
SEP 3   1945   FCC modifies its 1942 order requiring stations to cut transmitter power by one decibel, making the mandate “optional”. 
SEP 3   1945   Comedienne Joan Davis opens Joanie’s Tea Room on CBS for Lever Brothers‘ Swan Soap with a highly publicized Million Dollar contract but her first show draws a poor 8.3 Hooperating. 
SEP 3   1946   Goodman Ace takes office as the CBS Supervisor of Comedy & Variety Pro-grams.  (See Easy Aces on this site.)
SEP 3   1946   University of Minnesota station KUOM begins full days of broadcasting school lessons when a severe polio epidemic closes schools and keeps children at home.
SEP 3   1946   Mel Blanc begins his one season run of The Mel Blanc Show.  (See Mel Blanc on this site.)
SEP 3   1948   A New Jersey Appeals Court reverses the FCC’s Port Huron Decision of January, 1948, and rules that stations can be held responsible for libelous statements made in political speeches.
SEP 3   1948   NBC begins the three Labor Day holiday with Tex McCrary’s 15 minute docu-mentary, Death On A Weekend, warning of the dangers of careless and reckless driving.
SEP 3   1951   President Truman’s Labor Day appeal for the U.S. Defense Bonds Drive is broadcast by ABC, CBS, Liberty, Mutual, NBC and most independent stations.
SEP 3   1952   NBC Radio follows CBS’s lead by cutting nighttime rates by 23 to 30%, increasing daytime rates by 11% and reducing affiliates’ compensation by 14%.
SEP 3   1952   Bishop Fulton J. Sheen announces that he’ll leave NBC Radio’s Catholic Hour after 22 years to focus on his popular Life Is Worth Living television series on the DuMont network. 
SEP 3   1952   Radio version of CBS-TV’s What’s My Line? moves from NBC after three months to CBS for a one season run while the television show remains a Sunday night fixture on CBS-TV until 1967.
SEP 3   1953   ABC abandons its attempts to buy 50,000 watt KMPC/Los Angeles from its owners headed by Gene Autry.

SEP 4   1935   KNX/Los Angeles begins broadcasts from its new $250,000 studios on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard.
SEP 4   1935   WCKY/Covington, Kentucky-Cincinnati approves plans for a new 600 foot transmitter tower - the tallest wooden structure in the United States.
SEP 4   1936   Gordon Baking Co.  renews its 52 week sponsorship of The Lone Ranger on WXYZ/Detroit, WOR/New York City, WGN/Chicago and WSPD/Toledo.  (See The Lone Ranger on this site.)
SEP 4   1936   Barbara Luddy succeeds Betty Lou Gerson as the female lead of First Nighter, a role she will hold for the next 13 years. (See Friday’s All Time Top Ten on this site.)
SEP 4   1938   NBC’s Fitch Bandwagon begins the first of seven seasons showcasing popular dance bands on Sunday evenings.
SEP 4   1939   Unitarian minister Walton Cole protests to the FCC after his speech denouncing the political talks of Father Charles Coughlin is cancelled by WJR/Detroit, anchor station for Coughlin’s independent weekly network of 60 stations.
SEP 4   1940   Summer substitution hit Quiz Kids begins its twelve season multi-network run on Blue.  (See The Quiz Kids on this site.)  
SEP 4   1941   President Roosevelt's speech regarding a two hour sea battle between the US Destroyer Greer and a German U boat registers a 72.5 CAB rating.
SEP 4   1942   AFM boss James Petrillo makes the recording ban complete by reversing his earlier decision and prohibiting his members from making commercial transcriptions. (See Petrillo! on this site.)
SEP 4   1942   The AFM attempts to forbid GE’s non-commercial shortwave staton KGEI/San Francisco from broadcasting transcribed music to U.S. forces in the Pacific.
SEP 4   1942   NBC reports 16 sponsors of 21 programs take advantage of the network’s 10% discount for buying the full network of 125 stations.
SEP 4   1943   Distiller Schenley begins its experimental Saturday morning entertainment show Dubonnet Date with Xavier Cugat’s orchestra on Blue.  The program is cancelled after 13 weeks.
SEP 4   1944  A Labor Day crowd of 60,000 turns out for Midwest Farmer Day in Yankton, South Dakota, and an appearance by Brace Beemer as The Lone Ranger.  (See The Lone Ranger on this site.)
SEP 4   1946   FCC updates its December, 1945, FM allocation plan providing for more than 1,600 stations.
SEP 4   1946   NBC presents The City of Decision, a documentary written and narrated by Tex McCrary who witnessed the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima a year earlier.  
SEP 4   1947   Marshall Field’s WJJD/Chicago is elevated to 50,000 watts.
SEP 4   1949   The talent raid on NBC continues as sponsor Philip Morris moves Horace Heidt’s Youth Opportunity Program to CBS.
SEP 4   1951   San Francisco’s Japan Peace Treaty Conference becomes the first live coast-to-coast television broadcast.  President Truman’s opening address is seen on the four networks and reaches an estimated 14,670,000 viewers.
SEP 4  1951   Connecticut Senator William Benton formally proposes establishing The National Citizens Advisory Board For Radio & Television attached to the FCC which broadcasters immediately assail as an attempt of political censorship.
SEP 4   1952   AFM chief Petrillo issues a ban prohibiting band leaders from recording promotional voice tracks for play on local disc jockey programs. (See Petrillo! on this site.)

SEP 5   1932   Independent station KNX/Los Angeles editorializes that RCA is attempting a monopoly in broadcasting between its NBC and transmitter business. 
SEP 5   1936   The struggling Affiliated Broadcasting Company network. fires all employees not essential to network operations.
SEP 5   1937   The Zenith Radio Corp. debuts The Zenith Foundation dramas on Blue without commercials, saying it will instead rely on listeners’ "extrasensory perception".  The program was moved to CBS three months later and cancelled after 26 weeks.
SEP 5   1937   With the addition of WEOA/Evansville, Indiana and KDAL/Duluth, Minnesota, CBS grows to 106 affiliates.
SEP 5   1938   Don Becker and Carl Bixby’s daily serial Life Can Be Beautiful begins its 16 season run between NBC and CBS. 
SEP 5   1938   The FTC orders the Gordon Baking Co. to stop falsely claiming in its Lone Ranger commercials that each loaf of its Silver Cup Bread contains a 2/3rds of a pint of fresh, whole milk.  (See The Lone Ranger on this site.)
SEP 5   1939   Foreign language station WHOM/New York City cancels its morning German Program and replaces it with The Polish Program.
SEP 5   1940   Good News begins its third season on NBC with Fanny Brice, Dick Powell, Mary Martin and Meredith Willson but without the participation of MGM.  (See Good News on this site.)
SEP 5   1940   Bing Crosby denies that he would “quit radio” if he were unable to perform ASCAP music on his Kraft Music Hall.
SEP 5   1943   Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge troupe leaves on a month long, 16 city tour to sell bonds for the Third War Loan Drive.
SEP 5   1943   Hollywood reporter Jimmie Fidler apologizes on the air to actress Gene Tierney for saying she smoked cigars, thus ending her 20th Century Fox studio’s year long boycott against NBC and Blue.
SEP 5   1944   CBS ships a series of 19 five-minute transcribed programs by Kate Smith and her manager/announcer Ted Collins to its 146 affiliates promoting the network’s 1944-45 Sunday schedule.
SEP 5   1944   A New York Supreme Court judge dismisses Warner Brothers Music’s $100,000 suit against American Tobacco for “mishandling” its song, Don’t Sweetheart Me, by ranking it too low on Lucky Strike’s Your Hit Parade.
SEP 5   1944   CBS files applications with the FCC to construct UHF television stations in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and St. Louis.
SEP 5   1947   The U.S. Senate Interstate Commerce Committee disputes ABC commentator Drew Pearson's  charges that Ohio Congressman Robert F. Jones was once a member of the racist Black Legion and approves his appointment to the FCC.  
SEP 5   1947  C.E Hooper buys a former orphanage in Norwalk, Connecticut, for its new corporate headquarters.  (See Hooper Was No Easy Target on this site.)
SEP 5   1949   NBC’s Voice of Firestone becomes the first regularly scheduled AM-TV simulcast..
SEP 5   1949   American Tobacco’s Lucky Strike Light Up Time with Frank Sinatra takes over the 7:00-7:15 p.m. NBC weeknight strip held for five seasons by Liggett & Myers’ Chesterfield Supper Club starring Perry Como. 
SEP 5   1950   A U.S. Appeals Court denies the Pennsylvania State Board of Censors the power to censor movies shown on the state’s five television stations.
SEP 5   1950   After a decade of Procter & Gamble sponsorship on NBC, Ralph Edwards moves his Truth Or Consequences to CBS for Philip Morris.  (See Truth Or Consequences on this site.)
SEP 5   1950   Jack Armstrong, All American Boy ends 18 years as an afternoon feature and enters prime time on ABC as Armstrong of The SBI (Scientific Bureau of Investigation) but is cancelled after one season.
SEP 5   1950   Dudley LeBlanc, Louisiana based producer of Hadacol tonic, heavily advertised on radio, agrees to Federal Trade Commission demands that the product’s claims to rejuvenate its users be dropped.  (See Hadacol on this site.)
SEP 5   1952   NBC-TV’s Today Show displays the Library of Congress copy of the Gutenberg Bible on its 500th birthday from the network’s Washington studios after it posts an insurance premium of  $300,000. 
 
SEP 6   1933     Because sound effects men occasionally beat on drums, New York City AFM local 802 demands that they join the musicians’ union. 
SEP 6   1935   Jack Benny escapes injury when the yacht in Puget Sound on which he was a guest was destroyed by fire but was beached before its gas tanks exploded.  
SEP 6   1936   Gillette launches its Community Sing show starring Milton Berle on CBS following a ten week tryout on ten Yankee Network stations.
SEP 6   1936   With typical fanfare, American Tobacco’s Lucky Strike cigarettes employs an armored truck service to collect and deliver pop music sales data used to compile its weekly play list for Your Hit Parade. (See The Lucky Strike Sweepstakes on this site.)
SEP 6   1937   Philco adapts the Photocrime magazine feature to a 16 week, 15 minute transcribed radio series on 200 stations and backs the show with a contest offering 2,000 prizes and a total prize value of $50,000. 
SEP 6   1937   WEW/St.Louis, operated for eleven years by St. Louis University as a non-commercial station, receives permission to accept advertising.
SEP 6   1937   Cleveland stations WTAM, WGAR, WHK and WJAY all cover the Thompson Trophy Speed Race, highlight of the 1937 National Air Races held in the city. 
SEP 6   1938   With the support of Governor Robert LaFollette, the University of Wisconsin, licensee of pioneer daytime educational station WHA/Madison, files a claim with the FCC to take over the facilities of NBC’s 50,000 watt fulltime WMAQ/Chicago. 
SEP 6   1939   WNEW/New York City agrees to pay RCA a license fee of $300 per month to play RCA-Victor and Bluebird records.
SEP 6   1939   Decca Records warns WNEW/New York City to stop playing its discs or face legal action.
SEP 6   1940   Writer Floyd Buckley sues NBC, MCA and General Mills for $250,000 claiming the program Beat The Band was stolen from his rejected concept, Stump The Leader, subtitled, Beat The Band.
SEP 6   1940   Crosley’s shortwave station WLWO bans Gaucho Serenade because of the lyric, “…Neath your window in Rio de Janeiro I shall sing my serenade…”  Gauchos are cowboys in Brazil, nowhere near Rio.
SEP 6   1942   Lionel Barrymore, 64, debuts as Mayor of The Town on NBC and begins seven year multi-network run best known for its annual dramatizations of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. 
SEP 6   1942   Radio and nightclub singer Dale Evans, 29, makes her singing debut on NBC’s Chase & Sanborn Hour with Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy.
SEP 6   1943   WIP/Philadelphia and WOL/Washington stay on the air all night to report news of survivors from the Congressional Limited train wreck between Philadelphia and Wash-ington that killed 79 and injured 117 passengers. 
SEP 6   1945   FCC approves the sale of Crosley broadcasting properties to AVCO for $21.0 Million but seeks Congressional power to employ a bidding process, “open to all comers,” in future sales with the Commission acting as the final judge to determine “the best qualified” applicant.
SEP 6   1946   FCC reverses itself and denies KABC/San Antonio’s previously approved increase to 50,000 watts.  .  
SEP 6   1946   A Grand Rapids, Michigan court declares the defunct Associated Broadcasting System network officially bankrupt with $300,000 in liabilities and $32,500 in assets. 
SEP 6   1946   ABC begins live television production in Chicago with a weekly video version of its radio show Stump The Author on WBKB(TV).
SEP 6   1947   In an effort to limit squealing bobby-soxers on Frank Sinatra’s return to Your Hit Parade as co-star with Doris Day, NBC places an minimum age of 18 for all ticket holders to its broadcasts.
SEP 6   1948   NBC drops its long held ban against transcribed programs and eliminates the need for two live broadcasts of shows that are repeated for the West Coast.  (See The Late Shift on this site.)
SEP 6   1948   CBS pays $20,000 to its former Program Sales Manager,  Robert Mann, for radio rights to his creation, Our Miss Brooks.  (See Our Miss Arden on this site.)
SEP 6   1950   Willard Waterman replaces Hal Peary in title role of The Great Gildersleeve. (See The Great Gildersleeve(s) on this site.)
SEP 6   1950   Don McNeill’s Breakfast Club begins daily simulcasts on ABC radio and television.
SEP 6   1950   C.E. Hooper announces its new television rating service covering twelve New York and Ohio cities.
SEP 6   1950   WJZ-TV/New YorkCity introduces the weekday afternoon forerunner to American Bandstand on ABC-TV - a two-hour show hosted by country music star Zeke Manners. 
SEP 6   1951   General Tire & Rubber Corp. changes the calls of its newly acquired KFI-TV/Los Angeles to KHJ-TV. 
SEP 6   1951   After 16 years on Saturday night, Your Hit Parade moves to Thursday on NBC and begins the first of two seasons featuring Guy Lombardo’s Royal Canadians. (See Guy Lombardo on this site. 

SEP 7   1934   Evangelist Joseph Price representing The Cosmic Science Church of Los Angeles on WNEW/New York City and WICC/Bridgeport, Connecticut, is arrested by Federal authorities for using the mails to defraud. 
SEP 7   1936   NBC’s oldest commercial program, The A&P Gypsies, is cancelled after a twelve year run - two on WEAF/New York City and ten on the network.
SEP 7   1939   The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reverses a lower court decision and rules NBC harmless for 1935 remarks broadcast by Al Jolson which a hotel considered libelous and was awarded $15,000 damages.  
SEP 7   1940   The London Blitz begins and continues for the next 57 days.  The German bombing is reported by the networks on a daily basis via shortwave - most memorably by CBS correspondent Edward R. Morrow.
SEP 7   1940   Smilin’ Ed McConnell begins his 18th consecutive season on the air, his ninth for Sherwin-Williams subsidiary, Acme Lead White Paint, with a Saturday morning quarter hour of songs and chatter.
SEP 7   1941   President Roosevelt’s Labor Day speech on all four networks registers a 50.3 Hooperating.
SEP 7   1941   General Electric’s shortwave station KGEI/San Francisco introduces its weekly record show, Musical Mail Bag, directed to servicemen and women in the Pacific. The show is   also simulcast on KYA/San Francisco for stateside listeners.
SEP 7   1942   Kay Kyser is named Chairman of The Committee of 25 (leading radio personalities) enlisted by the Office of War Information to maintain morale in local communities.
SEP 7   1942   The OWI asks all stations to begin broadcasting a series of 10 one-minute transcribed announcements per day for six weeks recorded by leading newscasters that explain America’s war effort.  
SEP 7   1942   Nearly 20 minutes of Norman Corwin’s final episode of An American In England series on CBS is obliterated by atmospheric conditions interrupting shortwave signals from London. 
SEP 7   1943   FCC denies without comment NBC’s request for an additional half hour of evening option time from its affiliates in return for a half hour of morning time.
SEP 7   1943   The National War Labor Board begins hearing testimony from the American Federation of Musicians and the electrical transcription companies concerning the AFM’s 13-month recording ban. (See Petrillo! on this site.)
SEP 7   1943   Veteran songwriter and performer Frank Crumit dies of a heart attack at 54.  At the time of his death, he and his wife Julia Sanderson were hosts of Saturday night’s Crumit & Sanderson Quiz, (aka Mr. Adam & Eve), on CBS.
SEP 7   1943   Molle Mystery Theater opens as a mystery anthology on CBS for five year run.
SEP 7   1944   Owens-Illinois Glass pays a whopping $18,500 to sponsor Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians in their new Thursday night half hour concerts on Blue at 7:00 p.m. but the opening show receives a meager Hooperating of 2.7.
SEP 7   1945   The fledgling Associated Broadcasting System network holds its first affiliate meeting for 15 stations at its headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
SEP 7   1945   Kay Kyser returns from a month long USO tour of the Pacific and asks American Tobacco for a year’s sabbatical from his Kollege of Musical Knowledge which is refused.
SEP 7   1945   After four seasons on Mutual, Gillette moves its Friday night boxing broadcasts with Don Dunphy & Bill Corum back to Blue.
SEP 7   1946   Billboard cites a C.E. Hooper report showing that twelve of Network Radio’s Top 15 shows originate in Hollywood.
SEP 7   1947   Edgar Bergen revises the variety format of his NBC show to a sitcom tailored to each week’s guest. (See Sunday’s All Time Top Ten on this site.)
SEP 7   1947   Host Phil Baker leaves the comedy quiz Take It Or Leave It after six seasons. 
SEP 7   1947   Sponsor Carter Products places its Sunday night Hollywood reporter Jimmie Fidler with his 15 minute commentaries on both Mutual at 8:30 and ABC at 10:30. 
SEP 7   1947   Theater Guild On The Air returns for its third season on ABC at 9:30 p.m. Sunday night, a half-hour earlier than before in an effort to increase ratings.
SEP 7   1950   Pabst Beer submits a winning bid of $125,000 for radio and television rights to the Heavyweight Championship fight between Joe Louis and Ezzard Charles.
SEP 7   1950   ABC-TV, CBS-TV and NBC-TV each pay World Series rights holder Gillette $50,000 for the pooled telecasts of the 1950 games.

SEP 8   1932   Jack Pearl, 38, introduces his Baron Munchausen on NBC’s Lucky Strike Hour, beginning a five year multi-network run. (See The 1932-33 Season on this site.)
SEP 8   1932   Alumni protests force the Eastern Intercollegiate Association to drop its ban on football broadcasts.
SEP 8   1933   FRC lifts its strict limits on the number of 50,000 watt stations allowed, clearing the way for dozens of stations to increase power to the maximum level. 
SEP 8   1934   WOR/Newark is first to report the early morning fire aboard the luxury liner S.S. Morro Castle off the New Jersey coast in which 137 passengers and crew members are killed.
SEP 8   1936   Fred Astaire is in Europe and unable to appear on the premiere of his NBC variety hour for Packard automobiles.  Jack Benny and Ginger Rogers substitute for him.
SEP 8   1937   New York City stations WJZ, WMCA and WOR share the same broadcast of the New York Giants vs. Eastern College Football All-Stars game with sportscasters Bill Stern, (WJZ), Stan Lomax, (WOR) and Dick Fishell, (WMCA), reporting.   
SEP 8   1937   CBS broadcasts a two and a half hour George Gershwin Memorial Concert from the Hollywood Bowl starring Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Jose Iturbi, Oscar Levant and others plus the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Hall Johnson Choir beginning at 12:30 a.m. in the East.
SEP 8   1939   In a rare departure from the norm, the management of KJR/Seattle and KGA/Spokane, both 5.000 watt facilities, refuse the opportunity to elevate to 50,000 watts, citing the expense to buy and operate the new equipment.
SEP 8   1939   RKO releases the first of its 18 one reel shorts based on Information Please. (See Information Please on this site.)
SEP 8   1940   Lux Radio Theater opens its season on CBS with Manhattan Melodrama featuring William Powell, Myrna Loy and Don Ameche and announces plans for three name stars on every show.  (See Lux…Presents Hollywood! on this site.)
SEP 8   1941   Adolescent sitcom That Brewster Boy begins a four year, multi-network run on NBC.
SEP 8   1942   Former Kay Kyser band singer Ginny Simms begins successful three year run on NBC with a program incorporating talented Armed Forces personnel.
SEP 8   1942   Agent Tom Kennedy sues Red Skelton for $120,000, claiming that the comedian signed with the William Morris agency while still under contract to him.
SEP 8   1943   Blue is the first network to break the news of Italy’s surrender at 10:47 a.m. - ten seconds before CBS.
SEP 8   1943   The four national networks broadcast U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower’s announcement of Italy’s surrender - but the first 20 seconds of his announcement, recorded on a disc at 33 1/3 r.p.m., is played at 78 r.p.m.  
SEP 8   1943   All networks and most independent stations carry the hour long Third War Loan kickoff show headlined by President Roosevelt, Bing Crosby, Edgar Bergen, Burns & Allen, Jimmy Durante and Dinah Shore.
SEP 8   1944   After a seven year absence, Ed Wynn returns to Network Radio as King Bubbles in the 26 week run of  Happy Island on ABC.  (See The 1944-45 Season on this site.)
SEP 8   1945   Fifteen representatives of the broadcast industry return from their month long, 12,000 mile mission to European countries.
SEP 8   1945   William Bendix's sitcom The Life of Riley moves from Blue to NBC and begins a string of six Top 50 seasons.
SEP 8   1945   Helen Hayes begins a Saturday night anthology series of original dramas by known playwrights for Textron fabrics on CBS for a reported $10,000 per week.
SEP 8   1946   Don Ameche and Frances Langford debut as The Bickersons on NBC’s Drene Time.
SEP 8   1946   Mutual lists 208 affiliates airing The Shadow and another 85 non-affiliates carrying the program via transcription from syndicator Charles Michelson. (See The Shadow Nos. on this site.)
SEP 8   1947   WMCA/New York City and 150 other stations debut Tommy Dorsey’s syndicated disc jockey show two hours a day by transcription. 
SEP 8   1949   ABC, CBS and NBC lawyers confer with the FCC seeking a 90 day stay of the Commission’s giveaway show ban to complete their litigation against the ruling.
SEP 8   1949   The Associated Actors & Artists of America union representing 90,000 members supports the American Guild of Variety Artists in its turf war over television with the American Federation of Musicians 
SEP 8   1950   Tallulah Bankhead ends her year long,$1.0 Million lawsuit against Procter & Gamble over the shampoo jingle, “I’m Tallulah, The Tube of Prell,” and settles for $5,000. (See Tallulah’s Big Show on this site.)  

SEP 9   1926   RCA announces plans to establish the NBC network.  First affiliates include company owned WEAF/New York City, WTAM/Cleveland and WRC/Washington, plus WWJ/Detroit, WTIC/Hartford, WDAF/Kansas City, WCSH/Portland, Maine, WJAR/Provi-dence and KSD/St. Louis.
SEP 9   1933   Ed Wynn’s Amalgamated Broadcasting System network announces its charter stations: WBNX, New York City; WPEN, Philadelphia; WCBM, Baltimore; WOL, Washington; WDEL, Wilmington, and WTNJ, Trenton.
SEP 9   1935   WJSV/Washington stays on the air all night to claim a scoop announcing the 5:10 a.m. death of Louisiana Senator Huey Long from an assassin’s bullet.
SEP 9   1935   NBC asks the New York City AFM to reconsider its ruling that every instru-mentalist on Major Bowes’ Original Amateur Hour be supplemented by a stand-by union musician to be paid $18 for appearing.
SEP 9   1938   The NAB tells members that it is working with radio manufacturers to answer complaints that distributors are ignoring small stations when setting the keys on new “automatic tuning” radios.
SEP 9   1939   WLS/Chicago sells its 800,000th ticket for The National Barn Dance, presented in two Saturday night performances since 1931 in the 1,400 seat Eighth Street Theater.
SEP 9   1941   The NAB Executive Committee endorses ASCAP’s agreement with CBS and NBC that will end the networks' nine month boycott of ASCAP music on September 28th.  
SEP 9   1941   Citing coverage needs for national defense, WOAI/San Antonio files for an increase in power from 50,000 to 750,000 watts, joining a similar filing by WHAS/Louisville and a filing for 650,000 watts by Cincinnati’s WLW.  
SEP 9   1942   Amending its 1941 request for 650,000 watts, WLW/Cincinnati asks the FCC for a daytime power of 500,000 watts.
SEP 9   1942   The War Department credits the radio industry’s two week voluntary spot campaign promoting the use of V-Mail to have increased usage of the new photo-microfilm mail service to overseas servicemen and women by 100%.
SEP 9   1942   The University of Indiana Journalism School releases a study claiming that newscast comprehension peaks when read at 175 words per minute..
SEP 9   1944   Rudy Vallee, returned from a season’s absence for Coast Guard service, begins a two season run on NBC’s Drene Show.
SEP 9   1945   The prestigious Theater Guild On The Air, (aka The U.S. Steel Hour), begins its four season run on ABC with a weekly production/talent budget of $15,000.
SEP 9   1945   The Shadow begins its 15th year on Mutual with 234 stations carrying the show for regional sponsors, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, (Blue Coal), Grove Laboratories and Carey Salt.  (See The Shadow Nos. on this site.)
SEP 9   1946   The NAB goes on record against the FCC’s policy to consider local market economic conditions when granting new station licenses.
SEP 9   1946   Mutual reports 207 stations carry Fulton Lewis, Jr.’s daily news commentary for local (co-op) sponsors. 
SEP 9   1946   Critics hail ABC’s adaptation of John Hersey’s Hiroshima told in half-hour segments over four nights with a cast of leading radio actors headed by Everett Sloane.
SEP 9   1949   CBS cancels its sustaining giveaway shows Winner Take All and Beat The Clock after repeated failures to interest prospective sponsors.
SEP 9   1951   Rev. James McClain, formerly known as Jimmy McClain, star of NBC’s Dr. I.Q. from 1942 to 1946, begins a weekly series of sermons on the Texas State Network. (See Dr. I.Q. on this site.)

SEP 10   1933   Jimmy Durante wins his fight with MGM to appear on radio and joins Ruth Etting as substitutes for Eddie Cantor on NBC’s Chase & Sanborn Hour while Cantor finishes filming Roman Scandals.
SEP 10   1934   NBC outlaws four dozen words used in medicinal ads including belching, belly, bloated, diarrhea, gas, infection, nausea, pimple, pregnancy, scratching, sour and stomach.  
SEP 10   1934   The FTC reports that only five of 593 stations failed to respond to its request for commercial scripts in the hunt for illegal or misleading copy. 
SEP 10   1934   The U.S. Lawn Tennis Association demands that NBC withdraw tennis champion Ellsworth Vines from its Forest Hills tournament announcing crew because of a magazine article he wrote critical of the group.
SEP 1935   Mutual  enters its second year of operation with $1.0 Million already on its books for the 1935-35 season.
SEP 10   1935   Immediately after Governor Edward Johnson of Colorado proclaimed Traffic Safety Month on KFEL/Denver he was handed a bulletin that his nephew had been killed in an auto accident.
SEP 10   1936   NBC dispels reports that it plans to form two separate companies to operate its Red and Blue networks.
SEP 10   1937   New York City newspapers Times, Herald-Tribune and World-Telegram refuse advertising for the book “exposing” radio commercials,  Poisons, Potions & Profits, subtitled, An Antidote To Radio Advertising.
SEP 10   1941   The newly created U.S. Defense Supply Board deems commercial broad-casting an essential industry for  obtaining materials to maintain and repair facilities. 
SEP 10   1942   Mutual announces a new wartime format that includes hourly newscasts from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, delivered by 13 different newscasters and commentators. 
SEP 10   1942   The Office of War Information orders all government agencies to channel their complete network or local radio program plans through the OWI’s Radio Bureau.
SEP 10   1942   After 220 broadcasts over eight years, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music is forced off the air by the Cincinnati local of the AFM.  (See Petrillo! on this site.)
SEP 10 1943   A quarrel with Fanny Brice over writer-director Phil Rapp’s on-air credits leads to Rapp leaving NBC’s successful Maxwell House Coffee Time a post he had held since its beginning as Good News in 1937.  (See Baby Snooks on this site.)
SEP 10 1944   Allied troops invade Luxembourg and retake powerful Radio Luxembourg after four years and four months of Nazi control.
SEP 10 1944   CBS Sunday night stars of its programs Blondie, Baby Snooks and The Kate Smith Hour begin a series of promotional appearances in each other’s shows. 
SEP 10 1945   Don Lee Broadcasting System purchases 160 acres atop Mount Wilson as the new transmitter site for its W6XAO(TV)/Los Angeles for a tower that will rise 5,800 feet above sea level with a power of 40,000 watts.
SEP 10 1947   Mutual announces that The Shadow will be made available to affiliates as a co-op program.  (See The Shadow Nos. on this site.)
SEP 10 1949  Eddie Cantor receives $50,000 to headline three shows a day at Chicago’s 19 day National Television and Electric Living exposition. 
SEP 10 1951   NBC openly advertises 15 minute segments of The Big Show for $12,408 per week.  (See Tallulah's Big Show on this site.)
SEP 10 1952   ABC is reported following the lead of CBS and NBC by cutting its nighttime rates an average 25%, increasing its daytime rates by 5% and reducing affiliate compen-sation by 15%.

SEP 11 1928   General Electric’s W2XB(TV)/Schenectady presents the first television drama, The Queen’s Messenger. 
SEP 11 1933   Irna Phillips weekday serial Today’s Children opens its first run of four years on Blue.
SEP 11 1933   CBS separates news from its publicity department and appoints Paul White as its first News Director in charge of setting up the division. 
SEP 11 1936   Mutual adds 33 affiliates as far west as KWK/St. Louis to its basic network of WOR/New York City, WGN/Chicago, CKLW/Detroit and WAAB/Boston.
SEP 11 1937  CBS manages to obtain a speech by Madame Chaing Kai-shek broadcast from a temporary low power station in Hankow, the first voice transmission from China since the Japanese destroyed all radio transmitters and cut all cables..
SEP 11 1939  The major networks enter into voluntary agreement with U.S. government on handling of European war coverage. 
SEP 11 1939  NBC issues a new rate card with what agencies call a confusing basic network rate of 7.3% with WLW/Cincinnati and 8.03% without WLW.  (See NBC’s Chinese Menu on this site.)
SEP 11 1941   FDR’s “Shoot On Sight” speech about the torpedo attack on the destroyer USS Greer near Iceland and its ensuing battle with a Nazi submarine registers a 67.4 Hooperating and a 72.5 CAB rating.
SEP 11 1944   WIND moves its operations from Gary, Indiana, to Chicago.
SEP 11 1944   Eric Sagerquist, musical conductor for First Nighter since 1930, dies in Chicago at age 45.
SEP 11 1949   Grove Laboratories buys 450 Mutual stations for The Shadow and Blue Coal continues as the program’s sponsor on the East Coast.  (See The Shadow Nos. on this site.)
SEP 11 1949   Jack McCoy takes over host duties from George Murphy on NBC’s Hollywood Calling but Jack Benny‘s first show of the season on CBS scores a 14.7 Hooperating to the giveaway show‘s 4.0.  (See Sunday At  Seven on this site.) 
SEP 11 1949   Theater Guild On The Air aka U.S. Steel Hour, leaves ABC after four years and begins its final four season run on NBC.  
SEP 11 1949   Eddie Cantor replaces Garry Moore as host of NBC’s Take It Or Leave It for one season.
SEP 11 1950   Muzak, Inc., proposes nationwide subscription “narrowcasting” FM network.
SEP 11 1950   Country singer Jimmy Wakely begins a half-hour weekday disc-jockey/ interview show on 300 ABC stations.
SEP 11 1952   Jack Webb’s NBC Radio hit Dragnet debuts on NBC-TV.  (See Jack Webb’s Dragnet on this site.)

SEP 12 1932   Bing Crosby turns down an offer from CBS to perform a sustaining show for $250 a week.
SEP 12 1936   Detroit priest Charles Coughlin cuts his weekly lectures to 30 minutes and switches to early Saturday evenings on 31 Mutual stations. 
SEP 12 1938   All networks begin intensive coverage of the European crisis after carrying Adolph Hitler’s speech to the massive Nuremberg Nazi rally in which the German dictator demands a settlement with Czechoslovakia over the disputed Sudetenland.
SEP 12 1939   FCC threatens WMCA/New York City with loss of its license for violating The Communications Act of 1934 by intercepting, decoding and broadcasting German and British military messages.
SEP 12 1940    AFRA’s threatened strike against NBC, CBS and Mutual is averted when all parties agree to arbitration. 
SEP 12 1940  The International Association of Police Chiefs condemns radio crime dramas as detrimental to morals and asks its members not to cooperate or supply infor-mation to its producers.
SEP 12 1941   With much fanfare, Mutual debuts Ballentine Beer’s Three Ring Time half-hour variety show starring Charles Laughton, Milton Berle, Shirley Ross and Bob Crosby’s orchestra on 82 stations.  It moves to Blue three months later.
SEP 12 1941   NBC suspends dance band remotes when the AFM demands that the network exclude the broadcasts from WSMB/New Orleans, deemed “unfair“ by the union. (See Big Band Remotes on this site.) 
SEP 12 1943   F. Chase Taylor takes his Colonel Stoopnagle character and cast to Richmond, Virginia, for a special broadcast on WRVA and sells $400,000 in War Bonds to the audience.   
SEP 12 1943   Hollywood reporter Jimmie Fidler‘s caustic criticism of Warner Brothers‘ film This Is The Army on Blue prompts the studio to demand an apology and ban all of its actors from appearing on the network..
SEP 12 1944   NBC correspondent Wright Bryan is wounded and captured by German troops in France.  He was liberated from a prison camp in Poland in 1945.
SEP 12 1944   A Federal court dismisses the second suit by Warner Brothers Music against American Tobacco - $200,000 for “mishandling” its songs It Had To Be You and Time Waits For No One on Lucky Strike’s Your Hit Parade.
SEP 12 1945   FCC agrees to extend the Buffalo Broadcasting Company’s license by three months, giving it the chance to sell either WGR or WKBW, keep one of the stations, break its existing contracts and continue operating.
SEP 12 1945   FCC tells returning servicemen that it is unable to reserve FM allocations and urges them to submit applications without delay. 
SEP 12 1945   Frank Sinatra, until nine months earlier the star of Lucky Strike’s Your Hit Parade, begins a two season Wednesday night run on CBS with Songs By Sinatra for P. Lorillard’s Old Gold Cigarettes.  (See Smoke Gets In Your Ears on this site.)
SEP 12 1945   C.E. Hooper announces the formation of two new divisions providing in-depth listener research for the advertising and broadcasting industries.  (See Hooper Was No Easy Target on this site.)
SEP 12 1947   The Continental FM Network produces its first commercial broadcast, Stromberg-Carlson’s Treasury of Music featuring the Rochester Symphony Orchestra for 27 affiliates.
SEP 12 1947  Annual revenues for transcribed program syndicator Fredric Ziv are reported at $10.4 Million.  (See Fred Ziv - King of Syndication on this site.I
SEP 12 1948  Television version of Meet The Press, a Mutual radio feature since 1945, debuts on seven NBC-TV affiliates.
SEP 12 1951   General Foods signs Roy Rogers & Dale Evans to a three year exclusive radio and television contract for programs on NBC.
SEP 12 1953   NBC’s National Home & Farm Hour, the network’s first program to originate from Chicago in 1928, celebrates it’s 25th anniversary on the air.

SEP 13 1931   Eddie Cantor, 39, debuts on NBC’s Chase & Sanborn Hour and becomes Network Radios first “superstar.”
SEP 13 1932   Bandleader Ben Bernie, 41, begins his highly rated NBC series for Pabst Beer and an eleven year  Network Radio career.  (See Tuesday’s All Time Top Ten on this site.)
SEP 13 1937   Irna Phillips’ The Road of Life begins its 17 season run on NBC.  The weekday serial is heard concurrently  on CBS for six years before moving to CBS exclusively in 1954 for its final five seasons.  
SEP 13 1937   Off the air for a year, Gertrude Berg’s serial, The Goldbergs, returns to NBC’s weekday schedule.
SEP 13 1937   Chicago stations assist the city’s schools by broadcasting classes when a polio epidemic closes the schools for two weeks. 
SEP 13 1938   Network newsrooms go on 24-hour duty for complete coverage of the European crisis.
SEP 13 1939   FCC rescinds its requirement that stations must log the time and title of every phonograph record played. 
SEP 13 1940   Dave Garroway, 27, a KDKA/Pittsburgh announcer for two years, joins the staff of NBC’s WMAQ/Chicago.
SEP 13 1940   Earle C. Anthony, whose KFI/Los Angeles was the first station to sign an ASCAP contract in 1923, signs with BMI to play its music, (and public domain music), exclusively on KFI and co-owned KECA beginning in November.
SEP 13 1940   Broadcast Music Inc. gets control of 4,000 Latin American songs previously controlled by ASCAP.
SEP 13 1941   Brown & Williamson Tobacco assembles a split network of 14 NBC and Blue stations for the 30 minute Renfro Valley Barn Dance originating from a barn in Renfro Valley, Kentucky.
SEP 13 1942   Radio Readers Digest opens five year series of magazine based stories on CBS.
SEP  13 1943   U.S. Housing Commissioner Nathan Straus, Jr., buys WMCA/New York City from Edward Noble for $1.25 Million, clearing the path for Noble to buy the Blue Network and its New York City flagship, WJZ. 
SEP 13 1943   Lady Esther Cosmetics fires its ad agency, Pedlar & Ryan, after five years despite the huge success of its Screen Guild Players program on CBS.  (See Acts of Charity on this site.)
SEP 13 1944   Jimmy Durante, Gene Kelly. Olivia DeHaviland and George Coulouris headline the special CBS program Get Out The Vote, to encourage registrations for the coming Presidential election.
SEP 13 1945   An unauthorized nationwide engineers strike at all NBC and ABC owned stations ends after 26½ hours. 
SEP 13 1946   CBS successfully demonstrates its color television system in ultra-high frequencies to the FCC and press.
SEP 13 1946   George Washington Hill, President of American Tobacco and one of radio’s foremost advertisers, dies of a heart attack while vacationing in Canada at age 61. (See The Lucky Strike Sweepstakes on this site.)
SEP 13 1947   The Philadelphia Inquirer’s WFIL-TV goes on the air with the Philadelphia Eagles vs. New York Giants football game. 
SEP 13 1947   RCA demonstrates its new Kinescope recording system by showing film of the Mineola, Long Island Fair on WNBT(TV)/New York City only 20 minutes after it was shot.
SEP 13 1947   RCA’s David Sarnoff calls Zenith’s Phonevision system, “…wholly impractical to expect people to pay to receive television programs.” 
SEP 13 1949   A U.S. District Court in Chicago grants a temporary federal injunction against the FCC’s “anti-giveaway “ruling.  (See Stop The Music! on this site.)
SEP 13 1950   Bristol-Myers cancels Break The Bank on NBC, but continues the video version of the show on NBC-TV.
SEP 13 1950   ABC-TV debuts Don McNeill’s TV Club from Chicago starring the longtime Breakfast Club host.

SEP 14 1934   WAZL/Hazleton, Pennsylvania becomes the only outlet for news in the area as 20,000 union members go on a general strike in sympathy to the striking United Textile Workers.
SEP 14 1935   Paramount Pictures takes over NBC’s Lucky Strike Hit Parade for the Hollywood premiere of its Big Broadcast of 1936 hosted by Jack Oakie with Joe Penner, Jack Haley, Ethel Merman, Charlie Ruggles and Bonnie Baker. 
SEP 14 1936   Broadway talent agents tell Variety that Major Edward Bowes is paying them a five dollar bounty for every “amateur” they produce who can qualify for his Original Amateur Hour with “…a good story to tell about themselves.”  (See Major Bowes' Original Money Machine on this site.)
SEP 14 1936   Lillian Lauferty’s soap opera Big Sister begins its 16 season run on CBS.
SEP 14 1936   Frank & Anne Hummert’s weekday serial John’s Other Wife begins a six year multi-network run on NBC.
SEP 14 1936   WWJ/Detroit dedicates its new four story headquarters connected by tunnel to the co-owned Detroit News building.
SEP 14 1936   Lux Radio Theater pays tribute to MGM’s Vice President of Production, Irving Thalberg, who died that morning from pneumonia at age 37.  (See Lux,,, Presents Hollywood! on this site.)
SEP 14 1938   FCC examiners approve General Electric’s application to build experimental television transmitters in Schenectady and Albany, New York, and Bridgeport, Connecticut.
SEP 14 1939   WMCA/New York City flatly denies FCC charges that it intercepted, then decoded and broadcast secret German and British military messages as skeptics ask what kind of codes are so easy that a radio station can break them.   
SEP14 1942   After three seasons on CBS, five on NBC and one on Mutual, General Mills moves its kids’ serial Jack Armstrong to Blue where it remains for the next nine seasons.
SEP 14 1942   Blue newsman Morgan Beatty replaces replaces John W. Vandercook on NBC’s News of The World.  (See Multiple Runs All Time Top Ten on this site.)
SEP 14 1942   FCC discontinues issuing new, renewed or modified amateur (ham) radio licenses, citing administrative problems due to the war. 
SEP 14 1944   Many East Coast stations, including New York’s WEAF, WHN, WINS, WOR and WOV, lose power for up to five hours as a Category Two hurricane strikes the area causing $25.0 Million in property damage.  WPRO/Providence, WNBH/New Bedford, Massachusetts and WSAP/Portsmouth, Virginia, each suffer towers destroyed by the storm.
SEP 14 1945   FCC concludes a whirlwind week of granting 53 licenses in the new 88.1 to 107.9 megacycle band to existing FM stations and construction permits.
SEP 14 1945   Kate Smith enjoys a 20% ratings gain with a return to the CBS Friday night schedule and a new all-music format determined by Billboard’s popularity charts. (See Kate’s Great Song on this site.)
SEP 14 1947  NBC announces a ban on all radio crime shows before 9:30 p.m. 
SEP 14 1947  NBC reveals to its affiliates’ that the network’s total investment in television since its first involvement amounts to $22.0 Million.
SEP 14 1947  Garry Moore takes over from Phil Baker as host of NBC’s Take It Or Leave It.  
SEP 14 1948   Lever Brothers cancels Pepsodent Toothpaste’s ten year association with Bob Hope and installs Swan Soap as Hope’s sponsor for two seasons.
SEP 14 1949   CBS joins NBC and announces that it doesn’t need or want any more radio network affiliates.
SEP 14 1951  Western anthology Death Valley Days completes its 21st and final season spanning three networks.
SEP 14 1952   NBC cancels Tales of The Texas Rangers after a two year run.
SEP 14 1953  Sportscaster Bill Stern leaves NBC after 16 years to join ABC.  (See Bill Stern on this site.)
SEP 14 1953  Drug manufacturer Plough, Inc., buys WJJD/Chicago from Marshall Field for $900,000.

SEP 15 1932   CBS lifts its ban against quoting prices in commercials.
SEP 15 1933   Ed Wynn and his partners establish WBNX/New York as the flagship of their new Amalgamated Broadcasting System linking it with stations in Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston and Washington.
SEP 15 1933   WSM/Nashville, WCKY/Covington-Cincinnati and WHAS/Louisville form the short lived Center of Population Network.  
SEP 15 1934   The Gibson Family, an original musical comedy, debuts on NBC for its very expensive 39 week run, finishing 36th in the annual rankings.  (See The 1934-35 Season on this site.)
SEP 15 1936   RCA files denials with the New York Supreme Court to Philco’s charges of industrial  espionage.
SEP 15 1938   The 23 station Texas State Network,  affiliated with Mutual, opens with a celebratory broadcast starring Bob Hope and Gene Autry.
SEP 15 1939   The NAB, establishes a fund of $1.5 Million, to form Broadcast Music Inc., (BMI), as a music licensing alternative to ASCAP. 
SEP 1939   AFM President Joe Weber reinforces a requirement that all sustaining band remotes carry a closing credit that the broadcasts are, “…through the courtesy of the American Federation of Musicians.”  (See Big Band Remotes on this site.)
SEP 15 1939   A second broadcasting trade association, the National Independent Broadcasters, is formed by stations not owned or operated by a network.. 
SEP 15 1939   CBS raises its network rates by an average 7.5%.  (See CBS Rates - Go Figure! on this site.)
SEP 15 1939   CBS, Mutual and NBC carry Colonel  Charles Lindbergh’s isolationist address, America And The European War, from Washington at 10:45 p.m. 
SEP 15 1941   WLW/Cincinnati feeds its coverage of the massive two-week U.S. Army war games in Louisiana to an 18 station independent network in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia.
SEP 15 1941   Hollywood reporter Jimmie Fidler complains to a U.S. Senate committee investigating unfairness and bias in radio that CBS had censored his broadcasts.
SEP 15 1941   Lady Esther Cosmetics drops its long running Monday night Lady Esther Serenade on CBS for Orson Welles’ “literary vaudeville” series that lasts only four months when Freddy Martin’s orchestra resumes the Serenade.
SEP 15 1942   Don McNeill and his Chicago based Breakfast Club cast begin a week of remote broadcasts on Blue from Montreal, Ottawa, Providence, New Haven and Pittsburgh.
SEP 15 1942   Major League Baseball votes to donate Gillette’s $100,000 paid for World Series broadcast rights to the USO.
SEP 15 1943   Fitch Shampoo begins a second edition of its Sunday evening NBC Fitch Bandwagon on Blue’s Wednesday night schedule with Freddy Martin’s orchestra. 
SEP 15 1944   Mutual bans all Sunday afternoon and evening religious programs and limits those remaining to 30 minutes.
SEP 15 1944   Armed Forces Radio Service begins operations from the forward areas of New Guinea. 
SEP 15 1944   After two seasons on Blue, Bristol-Myers moves Duffy’s Tavern to NBC where it will remain for the next eight years. (See Duffy Ain’t Here on this site.)
SEP 15 1945   The U.S. drops the year round War Time, (aka Daylight Saving Time), and orders clocks back one hour to Standard Time.
SEP 15 1945   New York Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine resigns after 42 years on the force to become the narrator of ABC’s Gangbusters.
SEP 15 1945   Miami stations provide live network coverage of the Category Four hurri-cane hitting south Florida with sustained winds of 165 mph.
SEP 15 1946   Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch on CBS goes on tour for six weeks as the cowboy star makes personal appearances in Chicago, New York and Boston.
SEP 15 1947   Over 3,500 delegates gather at the NAB convention in Atlantic City.
SEP 15 1947   The NAB adopts its Standard Code of Practices governing programming and commercial activities for its radio station members effective February 1, 1948. 
SEP 15 1948   AFM President James Petrillo offers to negotiate an end to the union’s eight month recording ban to avoid threatened court action. (See Petrillo! on this site.)
SEP 15 1948   FCC refuses to reconsider using 44 to 50 megacycles for FM broadcasting.
SEP 15 1948   WHN/New York City, owned by Lowes, Inc., adopts the call sign WMGM with a marathon show from Hollywood starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Jane Powell and dozens of other film personalities plus the MGM studio orchestra and chorus.
SEP 15 1948   The country’s only television stations with three network affiliations are identified as WNAC-TV/Boston, (ABC, CBS & DuMont), and WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee, (ABC,CBS & NBC).
SEP 15 1950   Art Linkletter in Los Angeles and Ben Alexander in San Francisco co-host a television variety show seen on the CBS and NBC stations in both cities dedicating the microwave link between the two.  
SEP 15 1952   C.E. Hooper announces the October launch of its television ratings service in 40 of the 63 cities with stations.  

SEP 16 1932   NBC follows CBS and allows price advertising in commercials when delivered “...in good taste.”
SEP 16 1934   Hollywood reporter Jimmie Fidler begins his 16 year multi-network career.
SEP 16 1935   WPTF/Raleigh, North Carolina, and its insurance company sue the maker of the station’s steel transmitter tower that collapsed during a June storm for $5,140 in alleged damages.
SEP 16 1937   FCC makes public the irregularities of operation it cited to remove Brooklyn stations WARD and WLTH from the air and awarding their shares of 1400 k.c. to WBBC and WVFW.
SEP 16 1938   CBS owned KNX/Los Angeles elevates to 50,000 watts both day and night. Its new transmitter loses power for 30 minutes three nights later during the middle of Lux Radio Theater.
SEP 16 1940   The NAB Code committee warns stations carrying Father Charles Coughlin’s weekly speeches to carefully monitor their content and be aware that the industry group may ban them when the political season concludes.
SEP 16 1940   ASCAP announces that it has signed new contracts with 120 independent stations with no network affiliation. 
SEP 16 1940   Blue begins a Monday through Saturday night series of five minute news-casts with John B. Kennedy at 9:30 p.m. 
SEP 16 1940   The Don Lee Network’s W6XAO(TV)/Los Angeles leaves the air for 90 days as it installs its new transmitter atop Mount Wilson overlooking Hollywood.
SEP 16 1941   Rural comic  Bob Burns starts six year multi-network run as The Arkansas Traveler after five seasons as the comic sidekick to Bing Crosby on Kraft Music Hall.
SEP 16 1941   FCC approves commercial television station construction permits for Philco’s WPTZ(TV)/Philadelphia, Earle C. Anthony’s KFI-TV/Los Angeles and the Milwaukee Journal’s WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee. 
SEP 16 1942   Haven MacQuarrie, host of NBC’s Noah Webster Says, sues MGM for $500,000, claiming that its movie, Married Bachelor, humiliated him and caused the cancellation of his former program, The Marriage Club.  
SEP 16 1945   The short lived Associated Broadcasting System Network based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, begins operations without its advertised stations in New York City and Chicago.  
SEP 16 1945   Norman Corwin produces the 90 minute Stars In The Afternoon from New York’s Carnegie Hall hosted by The Aldrich Family and featuring CBS East Coast stars Phil Baker, Bob Hawk, Jack Smith, Helen Hayes, Edward R. Murrow, Patrice Munsel and a 75 piece orchestra to promote the network's new season of programs. 
SEP 16 1945   Noted Irish tenor and early radio star John McCormack dies at home in Ireland at 61.
SEP 16 1946   A proposed radio network, the North American Broadcasting Service, is incorporated in Las Vegas with $100,000 in capitalization and its founders predicting three thousand, (3,000), affiliates for its projected 16 hours of daily programming.  
SEP 16 1946   CBS increases its inventory of co-op programs, offering its affiliates three weekday news commentaries, a nightly Red Barber sports report, a five-minute Story of The Day feature and the Tuesday and Friday editions of House Party with Art Linkletter. (See A John Guedel Production on this site.) 
SEP 16 1947   ABC, CBS, Mutual and NBC extend their BMI contracts 13 years to 1960.
SEP 16 1947   The opening session of the United Nations General Assembly is covered by the four networks and New York City’s WNBT(TV) and WCBS-TV.
SEP 16 1949   ABC-TV's West Coast anchor, KECA-TV, begins operations, making Los Angeles the only city with its full complement of seven television stations.
SEP 16 1949   Singer Kenny Baker wins a $20,000 settlement from his William Morris talent agency and the Ziv syndication firm because he wasn’t informed that his transcribed shows would be repeated.  (See Fred Ziv - King of Syndication on this site.)
SEP 16 1949   FBI Assistant Director Louis Nichols says the Bureau will not withdraw its sanction of ABC’s This Is Your FBI, despite an American Bar Association official’s charge that the program, “…educates youth to the methods of crime.”   (See FBI vs. FBI on this site.)
SEP 16 1949   American Tobacco’s Pall Mall Cigarettes brings a video version of its radio hit The Big Story to NBC-TV.
SEP 16 1951   The second season premiere broadcast of NBC’s Big Show starring Tallulah Bankhead is recorded in London.  (See Tallulah’s Big Show on this site.)
SEP 16 1952   Mutual cancels mystery anthology The Mysterious Traveler after a sporadic nine year run.
SEP 16 1952   After three years on CBS, Red Skelton returns to NBC for his final Network Radio season. 
SEP 16 1952   The Standard Transcription Service reports that  200 stations have switched their leases of its library to outright purchases.  (See “By Transcription…” on this site.)
SEP 16 1953   Twelve hundred radio stations participate in the first nationwide test of the Conelrad defense system.
SEP 16 1953   An American Airlines plane approaching the Albany, New York, airport too low clips the two 365 foot towers of WPTR in suburban Colonie and crashes killing all 28 persons aboard.

SEP 17 1934   Ohio Senator Clarence Dill addresses the NAB convention and calls The Press-Radio Bureau, “…a rank failure.”  (See The Press Radio Bureau on this site.)
SEP 17 1934   WSGN/Birmingham causes a radio sensation with nightly reenactments of a local murder trial from taken from transcripts recorded by stenographers hired by the station.
SEP 17 1936   After six years of 15 minute Multiple Run programs singer Kate Smith, 29, begins a nine season series of hour long variety shows on CBS with The A&P Bandwagon opposite Rudy Vallee on NBC.  (See Kate’s Great Song on this site.)
SEP 17 1936   WOR/Newark and WGN/Chicago buy back WLW/Cincinnati’s ownership shares in Mutual.
SEP 17 1936   Major Edward Bowes takes his top rated Original Amateur Hour to CBS four days after the show’s final broadcast on NBC.  (See Major Bowes’ Original Money Machine on this site.)
SEP 17 1940   The CBS News Bureau in London moves its operations into Edward R. Murrow’s apartment after a Nazi bomb destroys its office. 
SEP 17 1941   FCC resumes hearings questioning newspaper ownership of broadcast properties.
SEP 17 1942   Office of War Information chief Elmer Davis tells the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee that the musicians’ union lengthy ban on recording, “…threatens the existence of many stations.”  (See Petrillo! on this site.)
SEP 17 1944   Fanny Brice debuts Toasties Time on the CBS Sunday schedule for two season run.  (See Baby Snooks on this site.) 
SEP 17 1944   General Foods premieres Kate Smith in an ill fated hour on CBS against NBC’s Jack Benny and Fitch Bandwagon. (See The 1944-45 Season on this site.)
SEP 17 1945   The Baby Snooks Show begins its season with a three week "hunt" for the missing tot because illness prevents Fanny Brice from appearing until the October 7th broadcast on CBS.  (See Baby Snooks on this site.)
SEP 17 1945   Elmer Davis resigns as head of the Office of War Information to which President Truman responds, “You deserve the thanks of the nation for a job well done.”
SEP 17 1946   Columnist and Blue Network commentator Drew Pearson and associate Robert Allen apply to the FCC for license of Hearst Radio’s WBAL/Baltimore, cited by the Commission for over-commercialization.
SEP 17 1947   Addressing an NAB meeting, FM inventor Edwin Armstrong predicts that FM will surpass AM listenership, “…within three or four years.” 
SEP 17 1947  South Florida radio stations assume emergency status as a Category Two hurricane hits the Fort Lauderdale-Miami area and then moves across the Gulf of Mexico to strike Louisiana.
SEP 17 1947   CBS previews a new weekly quarter hour newscast featuring the use of portable tape recorders.
SEP 17 1947   NBC announces the printing of 1.25 million 16-page full color comic books for distribution in schools that trace the development of a new network program.
SEP 17 1948   Edward R. Murrow originates his nightly CBS newscast from Berlin for a week.
SEP 17 1948   CBS-TV belatedly starts the fourth television network by adding WJBK-TV/Detroit and WAGA-TV/Atlanta, (both under construction), to WCBS-TV/New York, WCAU-TV/Philadelphia and KTTV(TV)/Los Angeles.
SEP 17 1948   ABC-owned WENR-TV/Chicago begins operations with a five hour variety show including a concert by Paul Whiteman’s orchestra. 
SEP 17 1948   KLAC-TV/Los Angeles debuts with the USC vs. Utah football game using borrowed equipment after its new $12,000 mobile truck was destroyed the night before when struck by a freight  train.
SEP 17 1950   The Mason, Ohio, Voice of America shortwave tower is wrecked by a 3:00 a.m. explosion blamed on saboteurs.
SEP 17 1950   Hal Peary debuts as Honest Harold on CBS - the sitcom is cancelled after one season.  (See The Great Gildersleeve(s) on this site.)
SEP 17 1950   Wildroot Cream Oil cancels NBC’s Adventures of Sam Spade after four seasons but the network continues the program as sustaining with Howard Duff replaced as its star when the booklet Red Channels reports his suspected ties to Communists.   (See The Curse of Dashiell Hammett on this site.)
SEP 17 1953   RCA-NBC Board Chairman David Sarnoff addresses his network’s affiliates calling for the “rehabilitation” of Network Radio and blaming its problems on, “...ratings, raiding and rebates.” 

SEP 18 1927   The Columbia Broadcasting System debuts with 16 affiliates in eleven states: WOR/New York City, WMAQ/Chicago, WGHP/Detroit, WCAU/Philadelphia, WJAS/ Pittsburgh, KMOX/St. Louis, WNAC/Boston, WMAK/Buffalo, WKRC/Cincinnati,  KOIL/ Omaha,  WOWO/Ft. Wayne, WCAO/Baltimore, WFBL/Syracuse, WEAN/Providence, WADC/Akron and WAIU/Columbus.  
SEP 18 1932   An automatic electric device producing chime-like tones is introduced to NBC system cues replacing hand struck, (railroad dining car), chimes.
SEP 18 1933   NBC officially designates Chicago's WMAQ as the affiliate to its Red network and WENR/WLS as its Blue network affiliate with KYW as the alternate.  
SEP 18 1935   Variety labels Major Ed Bowes the top earner in show business at $19,000 a week - $5,000 from his Original Amateur Hour, $12,500 from his touring vaudeville units, $1,000 from his film shorts and $500 for managing New York City’s Capitol Theater.  (See Major Bowes’ Original Money Machine on this site.)
SEP 18 1936   Raymond Gram Swing begins his twelve year radio career at WOR/New York City.
SEP 18 1939   TheTom Mix Straight Shooters becomes the first coast-to-coast kids’ week-day serial when sponsor Ralston Purina adds Blue’s Pacific Network to its coverage which also requires three live performances daily.
SEP 18 1939   CBS begins its long running series of nightly five-minute prime time news-casts at 8:55 p.m.   
SEP 18 1941  Sun spots disrupt shortwave transmissions ruining the inaugural broadcast of NBC’s Mexican network.
SEP 18 1942   FCC Chairman James Fly warns the Senate Interstate Commerce Com-mittee that 167 stations with low net revenues are in jeopardy if the musicians union strike against recordings and transcriptions continues.  (See Petrillo! on this site.)
SEP 18 1942   WHN/New York City afternoon disc jockey Dick Gilbert is credited with helping save the life of a hospital patient by  broadcasting an urgent appeal for volunteers with rare Type B blood to which 20 persons responded. 
SEP 18 1944   The U.S. Army reports expediting the construction of a 50,000 watt short-wave station on Guam to reach listeners in Japan, China and India.
SEP 18 1944   DuPont Chemicals’ patriotic anthology series on NBC, Cavalcade of America, begins its season with a roster of major stars including Clark Gable, Bob Hope, Rosalind Russell, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson. 
SEP 18 1946   Commercials in the new Dinah Shore Show on CBS are presented as remote cut-in’s from a different Ford assembly plant each Wednesday night.  
SEP 18 1946   The Joe Louis vs. Tami Mauriello Heavyweight Championship fight registers a 33.0 Hooperating for ABC.
SEP 18 1946   Late night dance band remotes from major New York City and Chicago hotels resume when the AFM strike over wages ends after two weeks.  (See Big Band Remotes on this site.)
SEP 18 1947   With his ban on FM programs, musicians union boss Petrillo orders the Rochester Symphony to stop performing on the new Continental FM Network which pays the 40 orchestra members full AM network scale for their work. (See Petrillo! on this site.)
SEP 18 1949   Eversharp presents the CBS broadcast of Take It Or Leave It with Eddie Cantor from the national druggists’ convention at New York City’s Statler Hotel.  
SEP 18 1950   Singer Jo Stafford, star Club 15 and Carnation Contented Hour on CBS, is signed by Voice of America for a series of shows directed to the youth of Communist countries.
SEP 18 1952   Ted Mack’s radio revival of The Original Amateur Hour is cancelled by ABC after a four year run.
SEP 18 1953   The FTC softens its five year ban on use of the word “free” in radio adver-tising when, “…the word is used honestly and not as a device for deceiving the public.”

SEP 19 1932   Frank & Anne Hummert’s weekday serial Just Plain Bill starring Arthur Hughes begins its 23 year sporadic multi-year run on CBS.
SEP 19 1932   Singing comedians Gene (Carroll) & Glenn (Rowell) return to WTAM/ Cleveland sponsored by Standard Oil, reportedly in response to petitions signed by 178,000 of their fans.
SEP 19 1932   With NBC refusing to approach Morton Downey or Bing Crosby who both left CBS over salaries, speculation mounts that the two networks have entered into an “anti-raid” pact.
SEP 19 1934   Burns & Allen’s new Wednesday night CBS series for General Cigar Corp., The Adventures of Gracie, carries a $500 weekly raise for the team to $2,750 a week for 39 weeks. 
SEP 19 1935   Radio reports the arrest of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for Lindbergh baby kidnapping/murder, setting off non-stop coverage of the “Trial of The Century.”
SEP 19 1935   Squibb begins its short-lived sponsorship of To Arms For Peace, on CBS’s Thursday night schedule at 9:30 p.m. featuring classical music and pacifist messages from literary notables.  
SEP 19 1941   Former Kay Kyser band singer Ginny Simms debuts on CBS with a weekly five minute show at 9:55 p.m. 
SEP 19 1944   FCC duopoly rules force Crosley Broadcasting, owner of WLW/Cincinnati to sell WSAI/Cincinnati to Chicago financier and station owner Marshall Field for $550,000. 
SEP 19 1945   FCC adopts standards for FM channel allocations and station operations.
SEP 19 1945   His request for a year's sabbatical denied, Kay Kyser returns to NBC’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge, but his wife and vocalist, Georgia Carroll, does retire.
SEP 19 1946   Longtime Network Radio comedy favorite Vic & Sade leaves the air after a 14 year multi-network run.
SEP 19 1946   FCC approves NBC’s application to change the call-sign of its WEAF/New York City to WNBC on November 1st - the same day CBS-owned WABC changes to WCBS.
SEP 19 1946   When recording his first Philco Radio Time for ABC broadcast on October 16th, Bing Crosby loses the tempo to Blue Skies, stops the show and re-records the song perfectly.
SEP 19 1947   Hurricane force winds take down phone lines in Louisiana but WSMB/New Orleans makes contact with KPRC/Houston via teletype with eye witness reports of the storm which are then forwarded to NBC. 
SEP 19 1948   The U.S. House Select Committee investigating the FCC charges the Com-mission with, “…a dangerous and unwarranted policy of ‘thought policing’ that has no basis in the law.” 
SEP 19 1949   Horace Heidt and a cast of 60 performers begin their three-month, cross-country Parade of Philip Morris Stars - incorporating remote broadcasts of Heidt’s Sunday night Youth Opportunity Program on CBS.
SEP 19 1950   America’s Town Meeting on ABC begins a six week tour of U.S. Air Force bases on the West Coast and Alaska.
SEP 19 1951   WBZ/Boston celebrates its 30th anniversary.
SEP 19 1951   Mutual and MGM sign a production alliance calling for the movie studio to provide six hours of “star quality” programs for the network’s nighttime schedule per week.
SEP 19 1952   Bob Hope is elected to a one year term as President of the American Guild of Variety Artists union.

SEP 20 1935   MGM releases Broadway Melody of 1936, the first feature film in which Jack Benny receives top billing.
SEP 20 1935   Paramount Pictures capitalizes on Network Radio’s popularity with The Big Broadcast of 1936, starring George Burns & Gracie Allen and Bing Crosby. 
SEP 20 1936   WMC/Memphis dedicates its new 611 foot transmitter tower said to be the tallest in the south.
SEP 20 1936   A.L. Alexander’s Goodwill Court begins a successful three month run on NBC before it’s forced off the air by lawyers’ complaints.
SEP 20 1938   Married stage veterans Frank Crumit and Julia Sanderson introduce Battle of The Sexes quiz on NBC and begin a string of four Top 50 seasons.
SEP 20 1940   Mutual correspondent John Steele suffers minor injuries when hit by a bomb fragment in London. 
SEP 20 1940   A rush of patriotic songs hit the air, including, Give The Stars & Stripes A Permanent Wave; Liberty Bell: It’s Time To Ring Again; What Are You Doing For Your Uncle Sam? and What Will I Do If I Marry A Soldier? 
SEP 20 1940   FCC votes to terminate the license of WBAX/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, “…with the least possible delay.”
SEP 20 1940   WSAY/Rochester, New York, cancels its contract to carry a weekly broadcast by the Communist party as not in the pubic interest.
SEP 20 1943   Decca Records and its subsidiary World Broadcasting System transcription service are first to settle with the striking AFM, agreeing to give the union royalties based on sales. (See Petrillo! on this site.)
SEP 20 1943   Musicians union boss James Petrillo claims the lengthy recording strike cost the AFM $7.0 Million.
SEP 20 1943   CBS asks its sponsors to eliminate all “cow-catcher” and “hitch-hike” commercials before and after their programs and absorb the spots into their shows. 
SEP 20 1943   Attorneys for indicted seditionist William Dudley Pelley file a libel-slander suit against Drew Pearson, the Blue Network, The Washington Evening Star, (owner of Pearson’s home station, WMAL) and others for $28.0 Million. 
SEP 20 1943   Wartime manpower shortages prompt NBC to hire its first two female tour guides at its Radio City studios.
SEP 20 1945   FCC proposes to drastically cut commercial television station approval permits to make way for an abundance of low powered  “community” stations. 
SEP 20 1945   DuMont Labs takes WABD(TV)/New York City off the air until December 15th to accommodate its conversion from Channel Four to Five.  (See Dr. DuMont’s Predictions on this site.)
SEP 20 1946   FCC calls for hearings on the license renewals of WIBG/Philadelphia, KMAC and KONO/San Antonio, WTOL/Toledo and KBIX/Muskogee, Oklahoma, for “...falling short” of the programming guidelines in its Blue Book.
SEP 20 1947   Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City Mayor from 1934 to 1945 and known for his use of radio, dies at 64.
SEP 20 1948   CBS reports that 22 of its programs for the 1948-49 season are in-house creations and 15 of them have been sold to sponsors.  (See CBS Packages Unwrapped on this site.)
SEP 20 1948   The AFM offers to end the nine month recording ban with a proposal to create an employer funded plan to hire unemployed union musicians.  (See Petrillo! on this site.)
SEP 20 1948   Network television in the Midwest begins at 6:00 p.m. when ABC connects its WENR-TV/Chicago with stations in Cleveland, Toledo, Buffalo, St. Louis and Milwaukee via coaxial cable. 
SEP 20 1948   NBC-TV opens its Midwest network at 7:00 p.m. linking its affiliates in Buffalo, Toledo, Detroit, Milwaukee and St Louis. 
SEP 20 1948   South Florida stations begin three continuous days of emergency operation when a Category Four hurricane strikes and forces 8,000 persons from their homes. 
SEP 20 1949   The four networks claim a combined cost of $583,000 for their summer long recording and delayed broadcast service for stations in areas not observing Daylight Saving Time.. 
SEP 20 1952   The American Federation of Radio Artists, (AFRA), and the Television Authority unions merge to form the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists, (AFTRA).
SEP 20 1952   KPTV/Portland, Oregon, on Channel 27 becomes the first commercial UHF station.

SEP 21 1933   Rudy Vallee calls the $900,000 paid to ASCAP during the past year by CBS and NBC to be “absurdly small” compared to the value of music to the networks’ programming.
SEP 21 1934   RCA President David Sarnoff, 43, is elected RCA Board Chairman. 
SEP 21 1935   Gabriel Heatter makes his network debut in a late Saturday and Sunday afternoon series of commentaries on Blue.
SEP 21 1936   The fledgling Legion of Decency For Radio mails 500,000 reprints of Massachusetts Congressman William Connery’s speech against the industry to clergymen.  
SEP 21 1936   Rudy Vallee with a male quartet and pianist accompanying him, flies into Cleveland unannounced to appear before an audience of 14,000 at the American Legion’s national convention. 
SEP 21 1938   A Category Three hurricane - still known as The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 - strikes the Northeast from Long Island northward with little warning.  Stations undamaged by the storm assume fulltime emergency service status as fatalities mount to 700 and damages eventually total $306 Million.  
SEP 21 1938   Boston stations WBZ, WEEI, WHDH, WMEX and WORL are knocked off the air by the Wednesday hurricane.  WEEI and WMEX resume broadcasting the next morning, WBZ, WHDH and WORL don’t return until Friday. 
SEP 21 1938   Both Worcester, Massachusetts stations, WTAG and WORC, lose their towers to the hurricane.  WTAG switches to an auxiliary transmitter within minutes but WORC is off the air for almost four days.
SEP 21 1938   WPRO/Providence loses its towers and its transmitter is flooded by the hurricane, forcing the station off the air for two days. 
SEP 21 1941  The Chicago Tribune puts WGN’s experimental FM station, W59C, on the air.
SEP 21 1942   Coca Cola moves its Monday through Saturday Spotlight Bands from Mutual to Blue, expands it from 15 to 30 minutes and renames it The Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands originating from military bases and defense plants. (See Spotlight Bands on this site.) 
SEP 21 1943   Kate Smith appears 64 times over 17 hours of CBS programs and is credited with selling $37.0 Million in U.S. War Bonds.  (See Kate’s Great Song on this site.)
SEP 21 1944   CBS war correspondent Richard C. Hottelet becomes the first American newsman to report directly from Holland since the beginning of World War II.
SEP 21 1946   NBC correspondent David Brinkley becomes the four networks’ pool reporter from the scene of a Sabena Airlines DC-4 plane crash that killed 26 at Gander Lakes, Newfoundland. 
SEP 21 1947   KFWB/Los Angeles bans 25 songs as “objectionable” including: Making Whoopee; Love For Sale; Empty Bed Blues; Aren’t You Kinda Glad We Did; Red Light;', Horizontal, and I’m Gonna Be A Bad Girl. 
SEP 21 1948   J. Carrol Naish brings Life With Luigi to CBS and begins a successful five year run.  (See CBS Packages Unwrapped on this site.)
SEP 21 1948  Texaco Star Theater starring Milton Berle debuts on NBC-TV and begins its assault on Network Radio’s Tuesday night audience. 
SEP 21 1949   FCC suspends its controversial anti-giveaway rules pending court decisions of the Commission’s broad interpretation of existing lottery laws.  (See Stop The Music! on this site.)
SEP 21 1949   Spin To Win follows Winner Take All and Beat The Clock,  becoming the third sustaining giveaway show in three weeks to be cancelled by CBS
SEP 21 1949   Citing its duopoly rules the FCC denies the sale of WHAS AM-FM-TV /Louisville to Crosley Broadcasting, owner of WLW AM-FM-TV/Cincinnati. 
SEP 21 1949   Bing Crosby leaves ABC and returns to CBS and one of his first sponsors, Chesterfield Cigarettes.
SEP 21 1951   Hadacol promoter Dudley LeBlanc sells his company and refuses to pay radio stars Jimmy Durante, Milton Berle, Dick Haymes and others who performed in his touring shows.  (See Hadacol on this site.)

SEP 22 1933   Sime Silverman, founder of trade paper Variety in 1905, dies in Los Angeles at 60.
SEP 22 1933   NBC issues an order that all its programs must announce the city in which they originate. 
SEP 22 1933   FRC approves a resolution allowing 40 stations to operate with 50,000 watts and considers increasing power limits to 500,000 watts. 
SEP 22 1934   WLS/Chicago begins a drive to raise $3,000 to help the station to take 12,000 underprivileged youngsters to the Chicago World’s Fair. 
SEP 22 1934   Most NBC and Blue affiliated stations refuse to broadcast Shell Oil’s paid announcements promoting the company’s Friday night Red Grange Football Forecasts on CBS.
SEP 22 1935   Veteran monologist DeWolf Hopper, 70, collapses and dies after a radio broadcast in Kansas City.  Among his six wives was Hollywood actress, columnist and radio personality, Hedda Hopper, 20 years his junior.
SEP 22 1941  Mutual beats Blue and CBS to a $1.0 Million Coca-Cola contract for a Monday through Saturday night series of big band broadcasts due to begin in November. (See Spotlight Bands on this site.) 
SEP 22 1941   WOAI/San Antonio petitions the FCC to raise its power from 50,000 watts to 750,000 watts.
SEP 22 1941   KTSA/San Antonio begins a ten week radio series of bridge lessons.
SEP 22 1942   OWI Radio Bureau chief William Lewis, a former CBS Vice President, asks all stations to appoint a “War Program Director,” in charge of all transcriptions and scripts sent it with requests for broadcast by his department.  
SEP 22 1942   Bob Hope interrupts his USO trip to Alaska to fly back to Fort Lewis, Washington, and open his 1942-43 NBC season, then returns to Alaska with Jerry Colonna and Frances Langford for another week of entertaining troops.  (See “Professor” Jerry Colonna on this site.) 
SEP 22 1943   CBS newscaster Cecil Brown submits his resignation over a dispute with the network’s policy against editorializing.
SEP 22 1944   ABC applies to the FCC for commercial television licenses in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles.
SEP 22 1946   CBS returns its 90 minute Stars In The Afternoon to showcase its 1946-47 programs,  hosted by Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra with other network personalities. 
SEP 22 1947   The AFM signs a pact with two national groups representing music teachers and school administrators which allows school children to play in non commercial broadcasts without union interference.  (See Petrillo! on this site.)
SEP 22 1948   WFIL-FM/Philadelphia successfully demonstrates multiplexing separate aural and facsimile signals on the same frequency. 
SEP 22 1948   NBC releases Behind Your Radio Dial, a 25 minute film designed to sell radio to its affiliates’ listeners and advertisers.
SEP 22 1949   Ed Wynn’s CBS-TV show becomes the first West Coast origination for network television.

SEP 23 1932   Ed Wynn announces plans for his Amalgamated Broadcasting System,  “..a creative organization to produce programs with the Broadway tradition.”
SEP 23 1935   The ACLU pressures Congress to demand that the FCC open its complaint files for public inspection.
SEP 23 1935   Ticker News, Inc., which provides a wired music service to restaurants and businesses in New York City and Philadelphia advises clients it may begin accepting spot advertising.
SEP 23 1937   RCA sponsors the four hour boxing marathon Carnival of Champions on Blue from New York’s Polo Grounds, with four sportscasters each describing the Light-weight, Bantamweight, Welterweight and Middleweight Championship bouts. 
SEP 23 1938   The Supreme Court of Georgia rules that WSB/Atlanta is engaged in interstate commerce and not subject to a city license tax placed on “local broadcasters.” 
SEP 23 1938   FTC charges Dr. Lyons Tooth Powder with misrepresenting the value of a bracelet offered in its radio commercials for listeners sending in a box top and ten cents. 
SEP 23 1940   Charging, “Men powerful in the field of radio,” had forced his decision, Detroit priest Charles Coughlin cancels his controversial program’s planned return to the air on a 52 station independent network.
SEP 23 1941   Radio’s “Goat Gland Doctor” John R. Brinkley, his wife and six co-workers in the Brinkley’s “clinics” in Del Rio, Texas, and Little Rock, Arkansas, are indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for mail fraud.  
SEP 23 1941   Frances Langford, 28, replaces Judy Garland as permanent vocalist on NBC’s Bob Hope Show while Blanche Stewart & Elvina Allman as Brenda & Cobina are dropped from the cast after sponsor Pepsodent receives listener complaints about their alleged risqué material.
SEP 23 1942   The OWI and Treasury Department ask all radio stations to substitute all spot announcement allocations given to War Bond sales until October 7th to messages urging fuel oil conservation.
SEP 23 1944   NBC broadcasts a special program commemorating the opening of Crosley Broadcasting’s three new Voice of America shortwave facilities in Cincinnati operating at 200,000 watts.
SEP 23 1945   CBS presents its second 90 minute Stars In The Afternoon broadcast, to promote its West Coast shows with Jimmy Durante, Garry Moore, Frank Sinatra, Nelson Eddy, Ann Sothern, Ozzie Nelson & Harriet Hilliard and others.
SEP 23 1945   Gene Autry is released from the Air Force and returns to his Melody Ranch series on CBS for the next eleven seasons. 
SEP 23 1946   Claiming the program wasn’t strong enough, NBC Vice President Clarence Menser refuses Wildroot Cream Oil’s attempt to buy 15 minutes on a 145 station network Saturdays at 5:45 p.m. for The Nat King Cole Trio Show. 
SEP 23 1946   Despite a three month test deemed 80% successful, the FCC votes 5-1 to deny the Press Wireless service the use of shortwave facilities to distribute news reports to subscribing stations, thus eliminating line costs.  
SEP 23 1949   CBS newscaster Lowell Thomas, 57, injures his leg when thrown from a horse while vacationing in the Himalaya mountains.
SEP 23 1951   Portions of CBS-TV’s twelve hour Crusade For Freedom rally become the first entertainment programming to be broadcast on transcontinental television.
SEP 23 1952   The Republican National Committee spends $75,000 to buy time on CBS, Mutual and NBC-TV for California Senator and Vice Presidential candidate Richard Nixon’s famous Checkers speech - later reported by Nielsen to have registered a 48.9 television rating.

SEP 24 1933   The American Album of Familiar Music, on the air since 1931, moves to 9:30 p.m. Sunday on NBC where it will remain for 13 seasons.  (See Gus Haenschen on this site.)
SEP 24 1934   WDAS/Philadelphia goes 100% foreign language after 7:30 p.m. nightly with programs in German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Slovak and Ukranian. 
SEP 24 1935   Transradio Press stations a reporter with a portable shortwave transmitter near ringside at the Joe Louis vs. Max Baer non-title fight in Yankee Stadium to provide blow-by-blow reports relayed to its client stations.
SEP 24 1937   King-Trendle Broadcasting signs a contract with Republic Pictures to produce one feature film and a 15 chapter serial based on The Lone Ranger.  (See The Lone Ranger on this site.)
SEP 24 1938   The National Independent Broadcasters representing non-network stations signs a standard two year agreement with the AFM.  (See Petrillo! on this site.) 
SEP 24 1939   Pioneer radio newsman Floyd Gibbons, 52, dies of a heart attack.
SEP 24 1939   Lawrence Tibbett, Grace Moore, Gladys Swarthout, Marian Anderson, Richard Crooks and John Charles Thomas are booked as soloists with Detroit Symphony after Henry Ford demands that his Sunday evening concerts on CBS feature only American artists.
SEP 24 1939   A Sunday afternoon fire in the fifth floor Radio City television studios of NBC destroys $10,000 in equipment.
SEP 24 1940   President Roosevelt creates the Defense Communication Board to plan the role of radio in national defense, but prohibits it from any censorship activity or taking over broadcasting facilities.
SEP 24 1941   The U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs begins the weekly distribution of 40,000 U.S.shortwave schedules in South American countries to promote listenership in the propaganda war with Nazi Germany.
SEP 24 1942   Glenn Miller’s orchestra performs its last Moonlight Serenade on CBS before Miller enters the Army Air Force.  (See In The Miller Mood on this site.)
SEP 24 1942   As the AFM ban against recordings continues, the U.S. Senate votes unanimously to investigate the union and its president, James Petrillo. (See Petrillo! on this sitel)
SEP 24 1942  The U.S. Censorship Board prohibits fund raising radio shows selling War Bonds from identifying bond purchasers or amounts pledged as they might be a vehicle for coded messages.
SEP 24 1944   Mutual’s musical game show What’s The Name of That Song? begins its four season run.
SEP 24 1945   After three seasons on Blue, The Wander Company’s Ovaltine switches its weekday afternoon kids’ serial Captain Midnight from ABC back to Mutual.
SEP 24 1945   Emerson Drug and its ad agency McCann-Erickson make a landmark spot radio buy for Bromo Seltzer of 2,000 one-minute commercials per week on 180 Keystone (transcribed) Network affiliates. 
SEP 24 1945   WNEW/New York City buys the syndicated Easy Aces from Ziv Productions for nightly broadcast at 7:45.  (See Easy Aces and Fred Ziv, King of Syndication on this site.)
SEP 24 1946   As 68 NABET engineers at Westinghouse owned KYW/Philadelphia, KDKA/ Pittsburgh, WBZ/Boston and WBZA/Springfield go on strike, the union demands that NBC stop feeding programs to the stations. 
SEP 24 1947   Bill Paley returns from his seven week European honeymoon to resume control of CBS.
SEP 24 1947  Bandleader Guy Lombardo signs a three year contract with Ziv to produce 156 transcribed half hour programs for $156,000 annually.  (See Guy Lombardo and Fred Ziv - King of Syndication on this site.)
SEP 24 1948   A last minute flood of briefs is filed with the FCC in opposition to the Commission’s “anti-giveaway” ruling, characterized by ABC as, “arbitrary, capricious and beyond the jurisdiction of the Commission.” 
SEP 24 1951   Pioneer soap opera The Story of Mary Marlin, off the air for six years, is revived for a 39 week run on ABC’s weekday afternoon schedule.
SEP 24 1951  Colgate-Palmolive moves its Strike It Rich radio and television giveaway shows from CBS to NBC.
SEP 24 1951  Columnist/commentator Drew Pearson’s $5.1 Million conspiracy trial against Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy and ten others opens in Washington, D.C. with Pearson claiming McCarthy’s speech urging a boycott of his sponsors cost him $150,000.

SEP 25 1933   CBS begins programming two five-minute newscasts a day, Monday through Saturday at 12:30 and 4:30 p.m., sponsored by General Mills. 
SEP 25 1933   Kids’ serial Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters begins its 18 season multi-network run on NBC.
SEP 25 1933   Ed Wynn’s Amalgamated Broadcasting System debuts over 14 eastern seaboard stations with a four hour inaugural program from WBNX/New York City that is criticized for its disorganization and high level of technical noise.
SEP 25 1933   The University of Minnesota refuses to let a St. Paul brewery sponsor broadcasts of its football games.
SEP 25 1933   Lee DeForest signs a three year contract renewal with General Patents Co. granting it use of all of his television patents for a $25,000 annual retainer plus royalties.
SEP 25 1934   NBC’s second oldest program, Soconyland Sketches, leaves the air after seven years and 378 episodes.
SEP 25 1935   WLS/Chicago resumes its threat to leave the Blue Network if its compen-sation to carry network programs  isn’t increased “substantially.”
SEP 25 1936   WMAL/Washington, D.C., successfully demonstrates a “solar powered” battery to transmit the station’s signal while an announcer explains the process to listeners.
SEP 25 1936   Kraft Cheese gives rural comic Bob Burns a raise from $550 to $1,750 a week to continue as Bing Crosby’s stooge on NBC’s Kraft Music Hall - for  which Crosby is paid $3,000 per week.
SEP 25 1939   WLW/Cincinnati asks the U.S. Supreme Court to consider its appeal to return to 500,000 watts of power.
SEP 25 1939   The Cincinnati Times-Star buys WKRC/Cincinnati from CBS for $275,000. WKRC joins Mutual and WCKY becomes Cincinnati’s CBS affiliate.
SEP 25 1939  NBC opens a series of five minute newscasts from Berlin at 7:25 p.m., Monday through Friday.
SEP 25 1940  The Communist Party complains to the FCC that eight Blue Network stations refuse to sell it time for political speeches. 
SEP 25 1940   George Gerhardi, former Director of German Programs for WPEN/Phila-delphia, fired in 1937 as a Nazi agent and since 1939 broadcasting shortwave propaganda from Berlin, is stripped of his U.S. citizenship.  
SEP 25 1942   A new trade group, American Broadcasters Association, is formed in Chicago by stations dissatisfied with personnel actions of the National Association of Broadcasters.
SEP 25 1942   Mutual boasts the largest network ever assembled for a weekly commercial program for its two year old Double Or Nothing on 204 stations. (See Mutual Led The Way on this site.) 
SEP 25 1943   A sustaining program for 13 years, CBS children’s program Let’s Pretend opens its 14th season with a sponsor, Cream of Wheat cereal.
SEP 25 1943   CBS launches a fall season promotional campaign valued at “almost a million dollars” involving radio spots, newspaper ads, direct mail  and car cards in its 119 affiliate cities.
SEP 25 1944   The Blue Network Co. changes its corporate identity to The American Broadcasting Company.
SEP 25 1944   ABC Vice President Ed Kobak tells the press that the former Blue Network plans to spend $7.0 Million for expansion of television and building an FM network because, “…FM will someday displace AM.”
SEP 25 1946   WIRA/Fort Pierce, Florida, becomes the 1,000th AM station licensed by the FCC.
SEP 25 1946   Mutual correspondent Royal Arch Gunnison, 37, is killed in the crash of a Royal Air Force plane in Hong Kong.
SEP 25 1946   CBS rejects a $5,000 giveaway stunt proposed for the Joan Davis sitcom Joanie’s Tea Room, in which five dollar bills with lucky serial numbers would be placed in circulation, each with a $1,000 bounty.  
SEP 25 1946   Sponsor Pabst Beer offers $2,500 prize money in a contest for NBC affiliates providing the best local promotion for the brewery’s new Eddie Cantor Show. 
SEP 25 1946    Breakfast Club host Don McNeill debuts Don McNeill’s Dinner Club Wednesday nights on WBKB(TV)/Chicago.
SEP 25 1947   AFM President James Petriillo rules that members cannot play on network co-op programs including the new Abbot & Costello Show on ABC,, the Joan Davis Show on CBS and Mutual’s Parkyakarkas Show.  The ban also prohibits any musical programs offered to statons on a co-op basis.  (See Petrillo! On this site.)
SEP 25 1949   After three years on CBS, sponsor Wildroot Cream Oil moves The Adventures of Sam Spade to NBC.  (See The Curse of Dashiell Hammett on this site.)
SEP 25 1950   WQQW/Washington repudiates the accusation by Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy that , “…the station appears to be completely under Communist control,” by citing factual falsehoods in the charges.
SEP 25 1952   General Foods signs a $2.0 Million contract to sponsor Bob Hope in a weekday 15 minute radio commentary in addition to his weekly half hour nighttime radio show.  
SEP 25 1953   Capitol Records reports shipping 600,000 copies of Stan Freberg’s spoof of Dragnet - called St, George & The Dragonet - within twelve days of its release.  (See Jack Webb‘s Dragnet on this site.). 
SEP 25 1953   The Liberace Television Show - is sold in its 100th market and reaches $1.0 Million in revenues after for six months in syndication.

SEP 26 1933   The Washingon Star retaliates against CBS establishing a news bureau and broadcasting daily newscasts by banning the network’s program listings and any mention of CBS-owned WJSV. 
SEP 26 1935   Elliot Roosevelt, 27 year old son of FDR, is appointed President of the five station Southwest Broadcasting Co.
SEP 26 1936   Early quiz show Uncle Jim’s Question Bee, hosted by Jim McWilliams, begins its five year multi-network run.
SEP 26 1936   Controversial Detroit priest Charles Coughlin’s speech at Philadelphia’s Municipal Stadium is broadcast by local stations WCAU and WFIL. 
SEP 26 1937   Orson Welles, 22, debuts as Lamont Cranston aka The Shadow on Mutual. Welles leaves after two  seasons but the program continues for a legendary 18 year run. (See The Shadow Nos. on this site.)
SEP 26 1937   Two Cleveland stations swap networks - WHK from CBS to Blue and WGAR from Blue to CBS.
SEP 26 1937   The Don Lee Network - Pacific Coast branch of Mutual - grows to 24 affiliates with the addition of twelve  stations in Washington and Oregon. 
SEP 26 1938   NBC issues a lengthy code covering all juvenile programs that prohibits cliff hangers along with gunfire, horror, voicing of pain, fear,  dying, vulgarity, violence or dis-respect of the law or authority.  
SEP 26 1938   Jack Benny and Mary Livingston host Lux Radio Theater for one broadcast when regular host Cecil B. DeMille takes the lead in the program’s adaptation of Seven Keys To Baldpate.  (See Lux…Presents Hollywood on this site.)
SEP 26 1938   NBC opens 24 hour shortwave service to Latin America to compliment its fulltime service to Europe.
SEP 26 1938   The 1938 edition of Who’s Who adds four new names from Network Radio: Edgar Bergen, Jack Benny, Bob Burns and Frances Langford.
SEP 26 1939   NBC’s Pot O Gold becomes the first big giveaway program, awarding listeners $1,000 for answering their telephones when called by hosts Ben Grauer and Horace Heidt.  (See First Season Phenoms on this site.)
SEP 26 1939   Bob Hope opens his new season on NBC with Judy Garland, 17, added to his cast. 
SEP 26 1939   Bandleader Artie Shaw leaves his Wednesday night show on Blue for Old Gold cigarettes when the sponsor’s agency, Lennen & Mitchell, reprimands him for calling his fans “morons.”
SEP 26 1941  WPTZ(TV)/Philadelphia broadcasts the first televised night football game under lights, Kansas vs. Temple.
SEP 26 1942   Glenn Miller’s band makes its last commercial broadcast on Coca-Cola’s Spotlight Bands on Blue. from Passaic, New Jersey’s Central Theater. (See In The Miller Mood on this site.)
SEP 26 1943  The Hollywood Bond Cavalcade tour of film and radio stars returns to Los Angeles after its 10,000 mile, 15 city train trip with bond sales for the Third War Loan campaign totaling $1.1 Billion.   
SEP 26 1945   Continuing the trend of newspaper-broadcasting cross-ownership The Philadelphia Inquirer buys WFIL AM-FM/Philadelphia for $1.9 Million and The Boston Herald-Traveler buys WHDH/Boston for $850,000; 
SEP 26 1947   The Continental FM Network defies AFM chief Petrillo’s ban and continues its Treasury of Music  broadcasts with non-union musicians.  (See Petrillo! on this site.) 
SEP 26 1947   President Truman appears on the Community Chest Salute program starring Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour and James Stewart on all four national networks.
SEP 26 1948   DuMont’s Original Amateur Hour becomes network television’s first coast-to-coast commercial broadcast reaching six East Coast stations live and Cleveland, Chicago and Los Angeles stations by kinescope recording.  (See Dr. DuMont's Predictions on this site.)
SEP 26 1949 The first FCC hearings are held dealing with competing color television systems.
SEP 26 1949   DuMont Laboratories opens its 480,000 square foot factory in East Paterson, New Jersey, capable of turning out a new television set every 22 seconds.
SEP 26 1951   Detective series The Fat Man is cancelled after a five year run on ABC. (See The Curse of Dashiell Hammett on this site.)
SEP 26 1951   Comedy panel show It Pays To Be Ignorant is cancelled after a nine year mullti-network run.  (See It Pays To Be Ignorant on this site.)
SEP 26 1951   Syndication firm  Lang-Worth announces the sale of Orson Welles’ tran-scribed series The Lives of Harry Lime in 18 countries.

SEP 27 1931   Bandleader Wayne King, 30, begins his nine season run of Lady Esther Serenades often running concurrently on NBC and CBS - placing three separate half hours in the 1936-37 Top 50.   (See The Waltz King on this site.)
SEP 27 1933   Sterling Drugs’ Waltz Time begins its 15 season run on NBC,  (See Frank Munn’s Golden Voice on this site.)
SEP 27 1935   KTRH/Houston announcer Harry Grier’s man on the street interviews are interrupted by a banker’s suicide leap from a 10th story hotel window to the nearby sidewalk.
SEP 27 1936   The Yankee Network begins operations on eleven New England stations anchored by WNAC/Boston and the co-owed Colonial Network opens with another eleven New England affiliates anchored by WABB/Boston.
SEP 27 1936   Standard Brands replaces The Original Amateur Hour on NBC with The Goodwill Court which continues to run Wednesday nights on WMCA/New York City.  (See The 1936-37 Season on this site.)
SEP 27 1937   Four of  the five Pan American frequencies reserved for U. S. Government shortwave operation go on the auction block under FCC supervision.
SEP 27 1938   FCC singles out Blue affiliate WTCN/Minneapolis-St. Paul to defend its license against charges of profanity for carrying the network’s July 28th dramatization of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize winning Beyond The Horizon. 
SEP 27 1938   Bob Hope, 35, begins his highly rated 12 year run on NBC’s Tuesday night schedule. (See Tuesday’s All Time Top Ten on this site.)
SEP 27 1940   FCC determines the 625 Trade Areas within the United States to be served by the 35 FM broadcasting channels.
SEP 27 1940   Death Valley Days, Network Radio’s oldest dramatic series, celebrates its 10th anniversary on Blue with a full hour program.
SEP 27 1940   The Democratic National Committee buys 30 minutes on Blue at 9:30 p.m. for a campaign broadcast featuring Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Katherine Hepburn, Thornton Wilder and Edna Ferber.  
SEP 27 1942   Edgar Bergen originates his Chase & Sanborn Hour from the U.S. Naval Academy with subsequent Sunday night shows scheduled from West Point and the Marine training base at Quantico, Virginia.
SEP 27 1943   Bill Henry replaces Cecil Brown on the CBS nightly newscast at 8:55 p.m. after Brown quit over the network’s policy forbidding editorial comment.
SEP 27 1943   CBS and NBC ban the British song, I’m Going To Get All Lit Up When The Lights Go On Again In London, because the lyrics, “…are too encouraging to drinking.” 
SEP 27 1943   Information Please is broadcast before a sell-out audience of 3,277 at Newark’s Mosque Theater and sells a record $277.4 Million in War Bonds - of which  $275 Million is contributed by local businesses. (See Information Please on this site.)
SEP 27 1944   AFRA proposes a 10% raise for talent in new contracts with networks and transcription companies.
SEP 27 1946   Weekday serial Bachelor’s Children is cancelled after a ten consecutive year multi-network run.
SEP 27 1946   Union engineers at NBC/Chicago disconnect the southern leg of the network for nine minutes in a show of support for striking Westinghouse station engineers. 
SEP 27 1946   NBC offers four weekday newscasts for local co-op sales: World News Roundup each morning,  Robert McCormick’s afternoon new analysis and  News of The World and H.V. Kaltenborn Edit’s the News every evening.  
SEP 27 1948   FCC tells broadcasters that although Congress ruled lottery prosecution is the authority of the Justice Department, the Commission can still deny license renewals to stations that break its rules. 
SEP 27 1948   Contrary to the FCC’s highly publicized mail count of several hundred cards and letters against giveaway programs, a University of Wichita survey of 6,600 Kansas listeners runs 80% in favor of them.
SEP 27 1948   President Truman’s local appearance is the first television event seen on WBAP-TV/Fort Worth but the Dallas-Fort Worth area’s first station doesn’t begin regular programming for another two days.
SEP 27 1949 FCC begins its color television hearings to determine its future while 200,000 new black & white receivers are sold every month.
SEP 27 1950   President Truman signs a supplemental defense bill granting $41.3 Million to create six new powerful shortwave stations for Voice of America broadcasts.
SEP  27 1950   The Joe Louis vs. Ezzard Charles Heavyweight Championship bout on CBS-TV scores a 64.8 rating in the twelve New York and Ohio cities surveyed by C.E. Hooper.
SEP 27 1951  R.J. Reynolds Tobacco signs a three year contract with CBS quiz show host Bob Hawk guaranteeing a total salary of $1.0 Million to host Camel cigarettes’ Bob Hawk Show.
SEP 27 1952  The four radio networks carry the United Community Campaign all-star kickoff show hosted by Ronald Reagan and featuring an address by President Truman.   
SEP 27 1953   Bing Crosby evicts Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy from the coveted 8:00 p.m. Sunday timeslot on CBS.
SEP 27 1953   WXYZ-TV/Detroit premieres Mello-D Roundup hosted by Judge Colt - stage name of J.D. Beemer, the adult son of Network Radio’s Lone Ranger, Brace Beemer. (See The Lone Ranger on this site.)

SEP 28 1936   WOL/Washington affiliates with Mutual as the network opens a news bureau in the capital.
SEP 28 1936   Bess Flynn’s soap opera Bachelor’s Children opens its ten year multi-network run from Chicago on CBS.
SEP 28 1939   Rudy Vallee performs his last NBC broadcast for Standard Brands, his Thursday night sponsor for ten seasons.
SEP 28 1941   Coca-Cola debuts its Sunday afternoon half hour Pause That Refreshes classical music show on CBS, paying soprano Lily Pons $5,000 to appear as its first guest star.  
SEP 28 1941  Blue Network stations on the West Coast begin Sunday night transcribed rebroadcasts of Jack Benny’s program first heard at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time on NBC.  (See Benny’s Double Plays on this site.) 
SEP 28 1942   Noted news analyst Raymond Gram Swing leaves Mutual after eight years for Blue - veteran Blue newsman Raymond Clapper is named his replacement.
SEP 28 1942 The NAB publishes The C Is For Caesar, a booklet stating its case against the AFM and its leader, James Caesar Petrillo.  (See Petrillo! on this site.)
SEP 28 1942   WNEW/New York City disc jockey Martin Block is credited with helping sell $60,000 in War Bonds by offering a free recording of Spike Jones’ Der Fuehrer’s Face! to listeners who bought $50 bonds.
SEP 28 1942 CBS sitcom Blondie admits studio audiences for the first time in three years giving ticket priority to Armed Forces personnel.  (See Bloonn…dee! on this site.)
SEP 28 1942 Ben Bernie and Gracie Fields host Back ‘Em Up, America! a late night all-star variety show selling War Bonds, originating at WGN and broadcast on seven Chicago stations. 
SEP 28 1943  NBC’s Truth Or Consequences reports receiving 15,000 letters containing pledges to buy $3.5 Million in War Bonds in response to a wounded sailor’s appearance on the show.  (See Truth Or Consequences on this site.)
SEP 28 1943   Jack Benny returns from a ten week USO tour entertaining troops in Central Africa, Nigeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Persia, Sicily and Italy. (See Sunday At Seven on this site.)
SEP 28 1945   Danny Kaye begins his second season of Pabst Beer’s Blue Ribbon Town on CBS then leaves for a six week USO tour.
SEP 28 1945   Paramount Pictures releases Duffy’s Tavern, loosely based on the radio show starring Ed Gardner and featuring Bing Crosby plus most every other star at the studio in cameos.  (See Duffy Ain’t Here on this site.)
SEP 28 1945   NBC and ABC sign contracts with their 500 NABET engineers granting $21 weekly raises and designating its members as the “platter turners” handling records and transcriptions despite the objections from the AFM. 
SEP 28 1946 The National Barn Dance from WLS/Chicago concludes its 13 season multi-network run on NBC. 
SEP 28 1947  Mr. District Attorney creator Ed Byron introduces his Adventures of Christopher Wells for a one season run on CBS.
SEP 28 1948   A capacity audience of 1,300 pays ten dollars a ticket at a Spokane theater to see Bing Crosby record his ABC program with proceeds going to the city’s stadium fund.
SEP 28 1949   Bing Crosby’s moves his transcribed half hour show from ABC to CBS.
SEP 28 1949   Gallup Poll is released showing that 83% of its respondents listen to radio giveaway shows.  (See Stop The Music! on this site.)
SEP 28 1951   ABC announces signing Walter Winchell to a “lifetime” contract - voided four years later.  (See Walter Winchell on this site.)
SEP 28 1951   WSM/Nashville’s artists bureau sues former Hadacol owner Dudley LeBlanc for $20,000 due to Hank Williams and Minnie Pearl for their appearances on the patent medicine’s traveling show. (See Hadacol on this site.) 
SEP 28 1951  Bristol-Myers moves Mr. District Attorney to ABC after 12 seasons on NBC. (See Wednesday's All Time Top Ten on this site.)

SEP 29 1935   Phil Baker replaces the late Will Rogers as host of Gulf Headliners, re-titled The Great American Tourist, beginning three successful seasons on CBS at $4,000 per week.
SEP 29 1935  Original Mutual network station WXYZ/Detroit becomes a Blue network affiliate but continues to feed The Lone Ranger to Mutual until 1942.  (See The Lone Ranger on this site.)
SEP 29 1935  Mutual replaces its Detroit affiliate WXYZ with CKLW/Windsor, Ontario. Former Blue affiliate WJR replaces CKLW as Detroit’s CBS affiliate and increases its power to 50,000 watts.
SEP 29 1935   RCA debuts The Magic Key on Blue, a 60 minute Sunday afternoon potpourri of elaborate proportions with shortwave pickups from foreign lands, ocean vessels and aircraft plus top musical attractions from around America.  (See The Magic Key on this site.)
SEP 29 1936   The Democratic National Committee buys the entire NBC network except KFI/Los Angeles for an FDR campaign speech, considered retribution for the Earle Anthony station refusing a recent Fireside Chat address.
SEP 29 1938   NBC’s Max Jordan scoops the competition by 46 minutes with his report of the Munich Conference agreement by France, Great Britain and Italy to cede parts of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany.
SEP 29 1938   Ezra Stone debuts as Henry Aldrich in the first of the Aldrich Family skits on Kate Smith’s CBS variety hour. (See The Aldrich Family on this site.)
SEP 29 1940   Mutual begins service to Utah’s Intermountain Network comprised of KLO/Salt Lake City-Ogden, KOVO/ Provo and KEUB/Price.
SEP 29 1940   Audience participation quiz Double Or Nothing begins its 14 year multi-network run on Mutual.
SEP 29 1940   KFJI/Klamath Falls, Oregon, becomes Mutual’s 150th affiliate.
SEP 29 1941  The National Independent Broadcasters adopts a reorganization with elected representatives from each state and territory.
SEP 29 1941  Chet Lauck & Norris Goff begin a six season run of Lum & Abner on Blue in four quarter hour installments a week.
SEP 29 1941   Mutual draws a 54.1 CAB rating for the Joe Louis vs. Lou Nova Heavy-weight Championship fight which Gillette also broadcasts to South America and Europe through GE shortwave stations WGEO, WGEA and WRUL.
SEP 29 1942  The Internal Revenue Service confirms its questionable ruling that adver-tising funds are tax deductible.
SEP 29 1942   Bandleader Harry James, 26, replaces Glenn Miller on the CBS quarter hour Chesterfield Time for two season run.  (See In The Miller Mood on this site.)
SEP 29 1943  Art Baker sues People Are Funny producer John Guedel for wrongful termination as host of the program. (See People Are Funny and A John Guedel Production on this site.)
SEP 29 1944   The U.S. House Select Committee to investigate the FCC issues subpoenas to all networks for transcripts of all newscasts between June 1 and September 29 for reviews of bias.
SEP 29 1944   NBC-TV and Gillette present the first televised Friday night fight on WNBT(TV)/New York City and relayed to WRGB(TV)/Schenectady and WPTZ(TV)/Phila-delphia.
SEP 29 1946   The year's end of Daylight Saving Time concludes the pioneering 22 weeks of transcribing and rebroadcasting  1,848 hours of network programs by ABC’s Central Division to accommodate stations remaining on Standard Time. 
SEP 29 1946   After four years on ABC, Miles Laboratories moves its Quiz Kids to NBC’s Sunday afternoon schedule.  (See The Quiz Kids on this site.)
SEP 29 1946   Married couple Phil Harris & Alice Faye debut their sitcom in Fitch Bandwagon‘s Sunday NBC timeslot at 7:30 p.m.  beginning an eight season run. 
SEP 29 1947  NBC moves Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians weekday show back one hour from 11:00 to 10:00 a.m. and away from the competition of ABC’s Breakfast In Hollywood and Arthur Godfrey Time on CBS.
SEP 29 1947   Lowell Thomas leaves NBC's Red and Blue networks after 15 years and moves his nightly newscast to CBS.  (See Multiple Runs All Time Top Ten on this site.)
SEP 29 1947   CBS drops the weeknight Red Barber sports commentary due to poor co-op sales and fills the 5:45 p.m.  timeslot with the newly acquired Lum & Abner, moved after four years on ABC by sponsor Miles Laboratories.
SEP 29 1947  CBS Vice President of Public Affairs Edward R. Murrow leaves that position to begin his twelve years of weeknight newscasts on the network.
SEP 29 1947  General Electric opens a microwave relay giving its WRGB(TV)/Schenec-tady live television to and from  New York, Philadelphia and Washington.
SEP 29 1948   The Original Amateur Hour returns to Network Radio on ABC with host Ted Mack, a longtime associate of the late Major Edward Bowes.
SEP 29 1948   WSB-TV/Atlanta becomes the South’s first television station.
SEP 29 1949   Congress approves a 50% pay raise for FCC commissioners to $15,000 per year.
SEP 29 1950   A.C. Nielsen blames television’s impact for its September rating of Network Radio’s Number One show,  Lux Radio Theater which it measures to have lost 6.0 Million listeners since September, 1949.
SEP 29 1950   President Truman, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Lucille Ball and Art Linkletter headline The Red Feather Roundup, kicking off the Community Chest campaign on the four coast-to-coast radio networks.
SEP 29 1950   Led by RCA, the television set manufacturing industry overwhelmingly rejects the FCC decision to adopt the CBS color system.
SEP 29 1951  Transcontinental live television begins as NBC-TV’s Saturday night shows - All Star Revue, Your Show of Shows and Your Hit Parade - become the first regularly scheduled commercial television programs to be transmitted from coast to coast. 
SEP 29 1951  Brad Barker, Network Radio’s foremost impersonator of animal sounds - sometimes appearing on 20 shows per week - dies in New York at 68. 

SEP 30 1929   Chicago’s National Farm & Home Hour begins its 29 year run - 16 seasons as a six day a week noontime program on Blue/ABC followed by 13 seasons as a Satur-day afternoon feature on NBC.
SEP 30 1930   Newscaster Lowell Thomas, 38, begins his 46 year multi-network career on Blue.
SEP 30 1930   Western anthology Death Valley Days begins its 14 year, multi-network run under that title. 
SEP 30 1932   ASCAP agrees to a new three year contract with 130 newspaper owned stations granting them a 1/3 rate reduction - an estimated $400,000 total - in return for “,,,the promotion and support” given music by the print media.
SEP 30 1933   The National Barn Dance from WLS/Chicago begins its 17 year multi-network run on Blue. 
SEP 30 1935   A&P Stores presents a free, two hour non-broadcast vaudeville show headlined by Kate Smith for 15,000 dealers and employees at Madison Square Garden.
SEP 30 1937   Kate Smith begins her successful seven year series of hour-long CBS variety shows for General Foods. (See Kate’s Great Song on this site.)
SEP 30 1938   All networks carry British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s infamous “Peace In Our Time” boast after signing the Munich Agreement. 
SEP 30 1938   CBS and NBC report a combined total of 914 broadcasts covering the three week European crisis.  
SEP 30 1939   The first collegiate football game, Fordham vs. Waynesburg, is televised by NBC‘s W2XBS/New York.
SEP 30 1940   After nine successful years as head of NBC’s Program Department, John F. Royal  is replaced by Sid Strotz, General Manager of the network’s Chicago office.
SEP 30 1940   Crossley‘s CAB rating service announces increasing the size of its annual sampling from 509,000 calls to 700.000.
SEP 30 1940   Kids’ serial Captain Midnight opens its nine season multi-network run on Mutual..
SEP 30 1941   Noted songwriters Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen withdraw from ASCAP and release their new material through BMI. 
SEP 30 1941 Representatives of the government, Rockefeller Foundation and manu-facturers meet to discuss former NBC President Miles Aylesworth’s idea to flood South America with low cost radios to pick up U.S. shortwave broadcasts. 
SEP 30 1941   Sponsor Johnson Wax adds 30 stations to NBC’s network for Fibber McGee & Molly resulting in one of the largest commercial networks ever assembled for a regularly scheduled program - 129 stations. (See Fibber McGee Minus Molly and Tuesday’s All Time Top Ten on this site.)
SEP 30 1942   Gillette sponsors Mutual’s coverage of the World Series on over 300 U.S. and Canadian stations plus on shortwave to Armed Forces overseas. Transcriptions of the broadcasts are also sent to 500 overseas military camps unable to pick up the shortwave broadcasts.
SEP 30 1942   Mel Allen, 29, joins Red Barber in Mutual’s World Series coverage, re-placing Bob Elson who left for World War II duty with the Navy.
SEP 30 1942   Eddie Cantor’s Time To Smile featuring Dinah Shore and Bert Gordon on NBC begins a two month schedule of originations from West Coast military bases. (See The Two Stooges on this site.)
SEP 30 1942  A faulty line connection to the Blue Network from a Milwaukee ballroom is blamed for the complete loss of Coca Cola’s Spotlight Bands broadcast featuring the Sammy Kaye orchestra.  (See Spotlight Bands ​on this site.)
SEP 30 1943   Decca, World and Empire Records sign with the AFM, guaranteeing a royalty for every disc pressed. (See Petrillo! on this site.)
SEP 30 1943   New York Congressman Martin Kennedy proposes a Constitutional amendment that, “Congress shall make no law that abridges the freedom of speech by radio or wire communication.”
SEP 30 1944   Television advertising for Ingersoll Watches, Textron and Carter Under-garments, Elizabeth Arden Cosmetics and McCall’s magazine is demonstrated in a 75 minute program for department store executives by WRGB(TV)/Schenectady.
SEP 30 1945   Acting on orders from AFM boss James Petrillo, Artie Shaw’s orchestra refuses to appear on NBC’s Fitch Bandwagon due to labor disputes at the network’s New Orleans and Chattanooga affiliates.  (See Petrillo! on this site.)
SEP 30 1946   U.S. Government files charges of breaking four federal laws against AFM President Petrillo  for calling a strike against WAAF/Chicago. (See Petrillo! on this site.)
SEP 30 1946   CBS introduces Showcase Time, a short series of half-hour exposures for network developed shows on weekdays at 5:30 and 11:30 p.m.  (See CBS Packages Unwrapped on this site.)
SEP 30 1946   The Radio Manufacturers’ Association reports that 3,242 television sets were manufactured in September, a sharp increase from the mere 225 during the first eight months of the year.
SEP 30 1947   Mutual boasts over 564 stations carrying its World Series broadcasts in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Armed Forces Radio.
SEP 30 1947   Ford and Gillette pay $65,000 for the first television rights to the World Series, broadcast on all eight East Coast stations affiliated with NBC, CBS and DuMont.
SEP 30 1947   General Foods underwrites a five week test of Mutual’s Meet The Press on WNBT(TV)/New York City.
SEP 30 1948   FCC orders a “temporary” freeze of “six to nine months or possibly longer” on 303 new television station construction permits pending before it, but not affecting the 37 existing stations or the 86 under construction. (Note: The “temporary” freeze lasted for 43 months.)
SEP 30 1948   With the removal of television applications, the FCC announces an eight month hearing agenda of 238 new AM and FM station applications.
SEP 30 1949   Future CBS 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney is paired with humorist Charlie Slocum to write material for Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts.
SEP 30 1949   Avco’s Crosley Broadcasting, which bought WINS/New York from Hearst Broadcasting for $1,700,000 in 1946, sells the station to the owners of WHOM/Jersey City for $512,500.
SEP 30 1949   Manufacturers report a record 224,532 television sets were produced in September.
SEP 30 1950   Mutual Sports Director Paul Jonas is injured in an Ohio private plane crash that killed the pilot.
SEP 30 1950   General Foods moves its transcribed Hopalong Cassidy series from Mutual to CBS for two highly rated seasons.
SEP 30 1950   DuMont Television assembles the largest “live” TV network to date - 41 stations for Notre Dame home football games from South Bend.. (See Dr. DuMont’s Predictions on this site.)
SEP 30 1951   Phil Harris & Alice Faye’s Sunday night sitcom on NBC is moved up to 8:00 p.m. to give Harris time to commute from his appearances at CBS on Jack Benny’s 7:00 p.m. program.
SEP 30 1952  Herb Shriner’s comedy quiz Two For The Money begins its four year multi-network run on NBC with audio from its television version.
SEP 30 1952   Merlin (Deac)  Aylsworth, first President of NBC, dies after a long illness at age 66.
SEP 30 1953   AT&T reports 41 television stations in 35 cities were added to network connections in September, resulting in a total to date of 199 stations in 127 cities.
SEP 30 1953 NBC’s owned and operated television stations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington and Cleveland begin an advertising campaign to promote NBC Radio Network programs in their cities.

                                                      GLOSSARY

AAAA = American Association of Advertising Agencies - ABC = American Broadcasting Company - AFL = Amer-ican Federation of Labor - AFM = American Federation of Musicians  - AFRA = American Federation of Radio Artists - AFRS = Armed Forces Radio Service - AFTRA = American Federation of Radio & Television Artists - AGVA = American Guild of Variety Artusts - ANA = Association of National Advertisers - ANPA = American News-paper Publishers Association - AP = Associated Press  - ASCAP = American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers - BBC = British Broadcasting Corporation - BMI = Broadcast Music, Inc. - CAB = Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting - CBC = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - CBS = Columbia Broadcasting System - CIO = Con-gress of Industrial Organizations - CST = Central Standard Time - CWA = Communications Workers of America - EST = Eastern Standard Time - FCC = Federal Communications Commission  - FRC = Federal Radio Commission - FTC = Federal Trade Commission - IBEW = International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers - ILGW = International Ladies Garment Workers - INS = International News Service - LBS = Liberty Broadcasting System - MBS = Mutual Broad-casting System - MST = Mountain Standard Time - NAB = National Association of Broad-casters - NBC = National Broadcasting Company - OWI = Office of War Information - PST = Pacific Standard Time - RCA = Radio Corporation of America - SESAC = Society of European Stage Authors & Composers - TVA = Television 'Authority - UP = United Press

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