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Really Really Retro: Chicago, June 6, 1944

From the Chicago Tribune via J.J's Radio Logs. Since this was D-Day, I'm willing to bet that most, if not all, of the programs listed here were postponed or interrupted, especially on the network stations.

Listings are as shown in the Tribune, sorted by station (by me) rather than time (by them). During this period, the Tribune indicated network shows by (B), (C), (M), and (N). The Blue Network is, of course, the former NBC Blue and future ABC. The Mutual newscast on WBEZ is not a typo, AFAIK.

Some listings are educated guesses as they were hard to read. Some stations did not provide complete program listings.

WIND 560 Gary/Chicago
5:30 AM News; Farm Fare
6:00 AM News; Yawn Patrol
6:30 AM Back to the Bible
7:00 AM Hour of News
8:00 AM News; Rhyme & Reason
8:15 AM Coffee Time
8:30 AM News; Rhythm Express
8:45 AM Current News
9:00 AM News; Start the Day Right
9:30 AM News; Music
9:45 AM News; Strictly Instrumental
10:00 AM News; Indiana WAC
10:15 AM Dance and Romance
10:30 AM News; Tempting Tempos
10:45 AM Record Session
11:00 AM News; Music
11:15 AM Musical program
11:30 AM News; Club Encore
12:00 N News; Serenade at Noon
12:30 PM News; Music
12:45 PM Music Maestro
1:00 PM News; Music
1:15 PM Navy at War
1:30 PM Baseball - White Sox vs Great Lakes NAS (exhibition)
5:00 PM News; Scoreboard
5:20 PM Club 560
5:30 PM The Star Parade
5:45 PM Bill Anson
6:00 PM News; This Will Happen
6:15 PM The Spice of Life
6:30 PM News; Frank Sinatra
6:45 PM Federal Agent
7:00 PM News; Sports Review
7:15 PM Musical program
7:30 PM Capt. Michael Fielding
7:45 PM Time to Remember
8:00 PM News; American Women (CBS)
8:20 PM Intermezzo
8:30 PM News; Musically Speaking
8:45 PM War Clinic
8:55 PM News reports
9:00 PM News; Race results
9:15 PM It Sounds Like This
9:30 PM 9:30 Edition
9:45 PM Musical program
10:00 PM News reports
10:05 PM Symphonic Hour
11:05 PM Music for Everybody
11:30 PM Harry James Orchestra (CBS)
11:55 PM News; The Night Watch
12:30 PM News
2:00 AM News
3:00 AM News
4:00 AM News
5:00 AM News

WILL 580 Urbana, Ill. (Educ.)
7:00 AM The Concert Airs
8:00 AM Musical Masterworks
10:00 AM Parent-Teacher Forums
5:00 PM Music of the Masters

WMAQ 670 Chicago (NBC)
5:30 AM News; The Early Bird
6:00 AM News-Ed Allen
6:15 AM Town and Farm Program
6:45 AM Morning Jubilee; News
6:55 AM News
7:00 AM The Suburban Hour
7:55 AM News-Clifton Utley
8:00 AM Your Neighbor Program
8:15 AM News & music
8:30 AM News & commentary
8:45 AM Songs in Fashion
9:00 AM Lora Lawton (NBC-serial)
9:15 AM Robert St. John commentary
9:30 AM Helpmate (NBC-serial)
9:45 AM Star Playhouse (NBC)
10:00 AM Road of Life (NBC-serial)
10:15 AM Vic and Sade (NBC-serial)
10:30 AM The Brave Tomorrow (NBC)
10:45 AM David Harum (NBC-serial)
11:00 AM Editor's Daughter (serial)
11:15 AM Linda's First Love (serial)
11:30 AM News reports
11:45 AM Just Music
12:00 N Elizabeth Hart Presents
12:15 PM Tunes & Tips
12:30 PM News-Hub Jackson
12:45 PM Looking Around
1:00 PM Guiding Light (NBC-serial)
1:15 PM Today's Children (NBC)
1:30 PM Women in White
1:45 PM Hymns of All Churches (NBC)
2:00 PM (unreadable)
2:30 PM Pepper Young's Family (NBC)
2:45 PM Right to Happiness (NBC)
3:00 PM Backstage Wife (NBC)
3:15 PM Stella Dallas (NBC-serial)
3:30 PM Lorenzo Jones (NBC-serial)
3:45 PM Young Widder Brown (NBC-serial)
4:00 PM When a Girl Marries (NBC)
4:15 PM We Love and Learn (NBC)
4:30 PM Just Plain Bill (NBC)
4:45 PM Front Page Farrell (NBC)
5:00 PM Alex Drier; Musical
5:15 PM News; Sweet & Spanish
5:40 PM Sports-Don Elder
5:45 PM News-Hub Jackson
6:00 PM Jim Blade & music
6:15 PM News-Robert St. John
6:30 PM Supper Interlude
6:45 PM H.V. Kaltenborn (NBC)
7:00 PM Ginny Simms (NBC)
7:30 PM Date With Judy (NBC)
8:00 PM Rep. Everett Dirksen, R-IL (NBC)
8:30 PM Fibber McGee & Molly (NBC)
9:00 PM Bob Hope (NBC)
9:30 PM Red Skelton (NBC)
10:00 PM Fred Waring (NBC)
10:15 PM News-Hub Jackson
10:30 PM Ronald Coleman (NBC)
11:00 PM News-Don Elder
11:05 PM Roy Shield & Co. (NBC)
11:30 PM Roy Shield & Co. (NBC)
11:55 PM Treasury Song of Today
12:00 M News; Meditations
12:15 PM Songs for Sheila (NBC)
12:30 PM Strings for Meditations (NBC)
1:00 AM Dance Orchestra

WGN 720 Chicago (MBS)
5:30 AM The Farm Hour
5:45 AM News bulletins
6:00 AM Breakfast Time Frolics (News at 6:25)
7:00 AM Record Reveillie (News at 7:20)
8:00 AM Your Morning News
8:15 AM Two-Ton Baker
8:30 AM Victor H. Lindlahr
8:45 AM The Wishing Well
9:00 AM News bulletins
9:15 AM Spots of Music
9:30 AM Morning Musical
9:40 AM News bulletins
9:45 AM June Baker
10:00 AM Get Acquainted, Neighbor
10:15 AM Musical Milk Wagon
10:45 AM What's Your Idea? (MBS)
10:55 AM Strictly Personal (MBS)
11:00 AM News-Boake Carter
11:15 AM Broadcast Rhythmatics (?)
11:30 AM News-John Holbrook
11:45 AM Boyce Smith, singer/pianist
12:00 N News-Ray Dady (Mutual)
12:15 PM Jack Berch & Boys (MBS)
12:30 PM Butch Davis, markets
12:45 PM American Woman's Jury (MBS)
1:00 PM News-Cedric Foster
1:15 PM American Eagle Club
1:45 PM News-John Holbrook
2:00 PM Words & Rhythm
2:30 PM Johnny Betis, songs/patter
2:45 PM Afternoon Serenade
3:00 PM News; Melody Menu (?)
3:15 PM The Open House (MBS)
3:30 PM Judy & Jane, serial
3:45 PM Linger Awhile
4:00 PM News bulletins
4:05 PM Musical Moods
4:15 PM Lawson's Music Makers
4:30 PM The Music Mart
5:00 PM News bulletins
5:15 PM Safety Legion Time
5:30 PM Mix (?) Straight Shooters (MBS)
5:45 PM Superman
6:00 PM Johnny Betis, songs/patter
6:15 PM Telephone Quiz
6:30 PM News-John Holbrook
6:45 PM Say It With Music
7:00 PM Confidentially Yours (MBS)
7:15 PM The Smoothies (MBS)
7:30 PM Pick & Pat Time (MBS)
8:00 PM News-Gabriel Heatter (MBS)
8:15 PM Return of Nick Carter (MBS)
8:30 PM Forum of the Air (MBS)
9:15 PM Don Reid's Orchestra
9:30 PM Crime Files of Flamond
10:00 PM News-Fulton Lewis Jr.
10:15 PM Chicago at Night
10:30 PM News bulletins
10:45 PM World's Front Page
11:00 PM News; Musical Notes
11:10 PM Carmen Cavallaro's Orchestra
11:30 PM Eddie Stone's Orchestra
12:00 M News; Benny Strong's Orchestra
12:30 AM Tiny Hill's Orchestra
1:00 AM Melody Time (to 3 AM)

WBBM 780/46.7 Chicago (CBS)
5:30 AM Treasury Hour
5:45 AM Farm & Factory Hour
6:00 AM Paul Gibson
6:55 AM News
7:00 AM News of the World (CBS)
7:15 AM News reports
7:30 AM The Wishing Well
7:45 AM Musical Clock
8:00 AM News-Bob Hurleigh
8:15 AM Program of Tunes
8:30 AM Paul Gibson
8:45 AM News-John Harrington
9:00 AM Valiant Lady (CBS-serial)
9:15 AM Light of the World (CBS)
9:30 AM The Open Door (CBS-serial)
9:45 AM Bachelor's Children (CBS)
10:00 AM Amanda (CBS-serial)
10:15 AM Second Husband (CBS)
10:30 AM Bright Horizon (CBS)
10:45 AM Aunt Jenny's Stories (CBS)
11:00 AM Kate Smith Speaks (CBS)
11:15 AM Big Sister (CBS-serial)
11:30 AM Helen Trent (CBS-serial)
11:45 AM Our Gal Sunday (CBS)
12:00 N Life Can Be Beautiful (CBS)
12:15 PM Ma Perkins (CBS-serial)
12:30 PM News-Bernadine Flynn (CBS)
12:45 PM The Goldbergs (CBS-serial)
1:00 PM Portia Faces Life (CBS)
1:15 PM Joyce Jordan, MD (CBS)
1:30 PM Young Dr. Malone (CBS)
1:45 PM Perry Mason (CBS)
2:00 PM Mary Marlin (CBS-serial)
2:30 PM Missus Goes to a Party
2:45 PM Do You Remember?
3:00 PM Broadway Matinee (CBS)
3:25 PM Winston & Sutton
3:30 PM News reports
3:45 PM News-Robert Hurleigh
4:00 PM Paul Gibson
4:30 PM Winston & Sutton
4:45 PM American Women (CBS)
5:00 PM News-Albert J. Stenkopf
5:15 PM Edwin C. Hill (CBS)
5:30 PM News-John Harrington
5:45 PM The World Today (CBS)
5:55 PM News-Joseph Harsch (CBS)
6:00 PM News; Sports Reel
6:15 PM John Nesbitt's Parade (CBS)
6:30 PM American Melody Hour (CBS)
7:00 PM Big Town (CBS)
7:30 PM Judy Canova (CBS)
7:55 PM News-Bill Henry (CBS)
8:00 PM Burns & Allen (CBS)
8:30 PM Raymond Massey - "Dr. Fights" (CBS)
9:00 PM Corwin Presents (CBS)
9:30 PM Congress Speaks (CBS)
9:45 PM Boyd Raeburn's Orchestra (CBS)
10:00 PM I Love a Mystery (CBS)
10:15 PM King's Jesters & Janette
10:30 PM News-Eugene Read
10:45 PM Salute to Victory
11:00 PM News
11:05 PM Buffalo Presents (CBS)
11:30 PM Jimmy Hilliard's Orchestra (CBS)
12:00 M News; George Olson's Orchestra
12:30 PM Bill Snyder's Orchestra
1:00 AM News & Rhythm

WAIT 820 Chicago
11:15 AM Woman's Corner
6:00 PM News-Anne Hunter
6:15 PM Sports-Hal Totten
7:30 PM Concert Miniatures

WLS/WENR 890 Chicago (Blue)
WLS
5:30 AM Smile-a-While Show
6:00 AM Farm News; George Menard
6:15 AM Morning Devotions
6:30 AM Victory Farmers on Parade
6:45 AM News-Ervin Lewis
7:00 AM News-Alex Drier
7:15 AM Prairie Ramblers
7:30 AM Jennie Lou & Buddies
7:45 AM Dr. Preston Bradley
8:00 AM Red Foley & the Range Riders
8:15 AM News-Ervin Lewis
8:30 AM Don McNeil's Breakfast Club (Blue)
9:00 AM Sweet River (Blue)
9:15 AM My True Story (Blue)
9:40 AM News-Ervin Lewis
9:45 AM The Listening Post (Blue)
10:00 AM Breakfast at Sardi's (Blue)
10:30 AM News-Walter Herlihy (Blue)
10:45 AM News-Ervin Lewis
11:00 AM Martha & Helen
11:30 AM Stocks, Markets, Harmonies
11:45 AM Farm news & markets
12:00 N Dinnerbell Time
12:30 PM News-Julian Bentley
12:45 PM Dairy news, markets
1:00 PM Doc Hopkins
1:30 PM News-Julian Bentley
1:45 PM Grace Wilson, contralto
2:00 PM Morton Downey (Blue)
2:15 PM Hollywood Star Time (Blue)
2:30 PM Of Interest to Women
2:45 PM News-Julian Bentley
WENR
3:00 PM Beulah Karney
3:15 PM Don Norman (Blue)
3:30 PM Voice of the News (Blue)
3:45 PM Rhythm Edition
4:00 PM Mystery Chef
4:15 PM News bulletins
4:30 PM Blue Points
4:45 PM Dick Tracy
5:00 PM Terry & the Pirates (Blue)
5:15 PM Malcom Claire, stories
5:30 PM Jack Armstrong (Blue)
5:45 PM Captain Midnight (Blue)
WLS
6:00 PM News-Julian Bentley
6:15 PM L. Burlingham: Musical
6:30 PM Let Yourself Go (Blue)
7:00 PM News-Paul Neilson (Blue)
7:15 PM Lum and Abner (Blue)
7:30 PM Duffy's Tavern (Blue)
WENR
8:00 PM Famous Jury Trials (Blue)
8:30 PM Spotlight: F. Masters (Blue)
8:55 PM Storyteller: M. Mueller (Blue)
9:00 PM Raymond Gram Swing
9:15 PM Chester Bowles, talk (Blue)
9:30 PM Dance Time
9:45 PM Treasury Star Parade
10:00 PM Symphonette: M. Piastro
10:30 PM But Not Forgotten
10:45 PM News; Rhythm at Random
11:00 PM News
11:15 PM Lyon & Faye
11:30 PM Glen Gray's Orchestra
11:55 PM News reports
12:00 M Creeps by Night
12:30 AM Another Dance

WAAF 950 Chicago
6:30 AM Farm Folks' Hour
11:30 AM Hit the Jackpot
12:00 N The Symphonic Hour
1:00 PM News reports
2:00 PM Club Melody
3:00 PM Footlight Echoes

WCFL 1000 Chicago
6:00 AM Come On - Get Up!
7:00 AM Daily War Journal (Blue)
7:15 AM Halloween Martin
7:45 AM News-Moulton Kelsey
8:00 AM Don McNeil's Breakfast Club (Blue)
9:00 AM Wheel of Fortune
9:15 AM Hugh Douglass, comment
9:30 AM Late Riser's Club
9:45 AM Art Dickson
10:00 AM News; Guest Spotlight
10:15 AM Don Artiste, pianist
10:30 AM Serenade
10:45 AM The Baby Institute (Blue)
11:00 AM News reports
11:30 AM Make Believe Danceland
12:00 N Baukhare Talking (Blue)
12:15 PM Life Fashions Stories
12:30 PM Salute to Hits
12:45 PM News-Morgan Beatty (NBC)
1:00 PM Walter Kiernan, comment
1:15 PM World of Song
1:30 PM News reports
1:35 PM Treasury Center
2:00 PM News reports
2:15 PM Jerry Sears Presents
2:30 PM Appointment With Life (Blue)
2:45 PM Jerry Sears Presents
3:00 PM News; Sports Edition
3:15 PM Lean Back and Listen
3:30 PM Don Artiste, pianist
3:45 PM Music Lover's Matinee
4:45 PM Sunny Days
5:00 PM News reports
5:15 PM Don Artiste, pianist
5:30 PM News; Let's Dance
5:45 PM Vaughn Monroe's Orchestra
6:00 PM News reports
6:15 PM Music Motorcade
6:25 PM Baseball scores
6:30 PM Adventures of Jane Arden
6:45 PM Jack Kelly's Orchestra
7:00 PM News reports
7:15 PM Bing Crosby
7:30 PM Dr. Schacher, commentator
7:45 PM Treasury Salute
8:00 PM News; Bible Prophecy
8:30 PM Labor News Flashes
8:45 PM Any Bonds Tonight?
9:00 PM News reports
9:15 PM Chester Bowes (Blue)
9:30 PM Musical Calendar
9:45 PM Three-Quarter Time
10:00 PM News-Moulton Kelsey
10:15 PM Don Artiste, pianist
10:30 PM Music Lovers' Hour
11:30 PM Dance Orchestra
11:55 PM News reports

WMBI 1110 Chicago
12:30 PM News About Music

WJJD 1160 Chicago
5:30 AM The Breakfast Frolic
7:00 AM People's Tabernacle
7:30 AM News reports
7:45 AM Smilin' Ed McConnell
8:00 AM Showboat
9:00 AM Pop concert
9:30 AM Treasury Star Parade
9:45 AM Science Story Teller
10:00 AM News reports
10:15 AM George Carol, songs
10:30 AM War Clinic of the Air
10:45 AM George Carol
11:00 AM News reports
11:15 AM Music Goes 'Round
11:30 AM Len Cleary, organist
11:45 AM Voice of Experience
12:00 N News reports
12:15 PM Waltz Time
12:30 PM Loop Noonday Service
1:00 PM War Workers' Morale
1:30 PM News reports
1:45 PM Service Unlimited
2:00 PM 1160 Club
2:45 PM Warm Up Time
3:00 PM Sports Page
5:00 PM Scoreboard
5:15 PM Swing It
5:30 PM Parade of Stars
5:45 PM News reports
6:00 PM Sports Review
6:15 PM Pan Americana
6:30 PM Dinner Serenade
7:15 PM Ranch House
7:30 PM Packard Family
8:00 PM Suppertime Frolic
10:00 PM Signoff

WCRW/WEDC/WSBC 1240 Chicago
7:30 AM WSBC: Excursions in Science
12:15 PM WCRW: Your Government
4:00 PM WEDC: Soldiers of the Press
6:15 PM WCRW: Around the Town
10:15 PM WEDC: Hollywood News

WGES 1390 Chicago
9:30 AM Swedish program
5:00 PM Polish Swing Session
10:30 PM All-Slavic Hour

WBEZ 42.5 Chicago (Educ.)
10:00 AM News-Arthur Gaeth
12:30 PM Ration Summary
1:00 PM News-Cedric Foster (MBS)
1:30 PM Mother Goose Lady
2:30 PM On Parle Francais

WWZR 45.1 Chicago
12:00 N Victory Promenade
12:30 PM Luncheon Varieties
1:00 PM The Salon Hour
2:00 PM Music for War Workers
2:30 PM Dance Maestro
3:00 PM Latin Moods
3:30 PM Pop concert
3:45 PM Music for War Workers
5:00 PM Concert (unreadable)
5:15 PM Organ Sketches
5:30 PM High Jinks in Tempo
6:00 PM The Masters' Album
8:30 PM Symphony of Song
9:30 PM Composers' Hour
10:00 PM Rhythms on Parade
10:30 PM Rhythms on Parade
10:45 PM Music for War Workers

WGNB 45.9 Chicago
3:00 PM War Workers' Program
3:30 PM Rhythm Matinee
4:00 PM On Wings of Song
4:30 PM Pop concert
5:00 PM Soft Swing
5:15 PM Console Concert
5:30 PM Rhythm Cocktail
6:00 PM News-Fulton J. Lewis
6:15 PM Carmen Cavallero's Orchestra
6:45 PM Concert Hall
7:45 PM One Night Stands
7:55 PM War Workers' Program
8:15 PM One Night Stands
8:30 PM Forum of the Air (MBS)
9:15 PM The Sketchbook
9:30 PM News reports

Stations listed at the top of the page but with no program listings
1230 WJOB Hammond, Ind.
1280 WMRO Aurora
1450 WHFC Cicero/Chicago
46.7 WBBM-FM Chicago (WBBM 780 simulcast?)
47.5 WDLM Chicago

Not listed in the Tribune but on the air in 1944
1340 WCLS Joliet
 
Keith:
Cool list. Thanks for compiling it.
Tough choice at 8 p.m. Would you listen to Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy or Burns and Allen?
 
SEARCH FOR ANOTHER OLD FART TO ANSWER;

Two Ton Baker is on WGN in the morning. When did Eddie Hubbard start there, and was there anybody in beteen Two ton and Eddie?
 
I've actually heard the aircheck of the Bob Hope program that was on NBC that night (no, it wasn't pre-empted). He made a short statement at the beginning of the show expressing his hope that this was the beginning of end (paraphrasing) and good wishes and prayers for the soldiers. Of course, you could tell that his comments were truly heartfelt - after all, he spent a lot of time doing USO shows during this war (and others).

You might be surprised how few of the listed programs were pre-empted. In fact, I'd bet that almost none were. There were likely bulletins during the day and evening, but news coverage then was not as it is now and there was little capability for them to go "wall to wall" with news coverage as there is now. Nor would the military give out a lot of information back then (those old guys were smart).

I think that the JFK assassination was the first time that an event received such coverage over an extended period. Perhaps VE and/or VJ day. But I do know that programming went on as usual on D-Day.
 
Great stuff Keith. I remember hearing many of those people such as Don McNeil, Paul Gibson, John Harrington, Alex Drier and others and I wasn't even born yet.
So many continued on for many years.

Thanks for producing the list. :D
 
All five of those early FM stations are still on the air:

WBEZ (Chicago Board of Educ.; never was W25C AFAIK) 42.5 is now on 91.5.

WWZR (Zenith; ex-W9XEN, W51C) 45.1 is now WUSN 99.5

WGNB (Tribune; ex-W59C) 45.9 eventually evolved into WFMT 98.7.

WBBM-FM (CBS; ex-W67C) 46.7 is now on 96.3 after a few early years on 97.1 (96.3 was orignally WBIK, owned by Balaban & Katz. It went away with the ABC/United Paramount/CBS mess of 1953).

WDLM (Moody Bible Inst.; ex-W75C) 47.5 moved to 95.5, became WMBI-FM, and is now on 90.1 after selling the 95.5 transmitter to what became WDHF (now WNUA).

All of the above were on different frequencies when the current FM band opened in 1945. There was quite a bit of movement for the first couple of years.

Other FM stations had been on the air prior to 1944 (WMAQ, WJJD, WCFL, and WHFC had FMs authorized, if not on the air, in 1942) but were not listed in the 6/6/44 edition of the Tribune. They may have gone off the air by then.
 
Only slightly kidding here...but I saw no listings on The Big 89
('LS/WENR shared-time) for Paul Harvey. What's the deal? ;)

Also noticed that Breakfast Club aired in full from 8-9am CT
on Big 10 WCFL, but only the last half hour on 'LS (simulcast?)
which, as the Blue affil, would seem to be its "normal" home.
I guess on the Prairie Farmer Station, Red Foley outranked
Don McNeill.
 
Oldies Fan,
I know you were kidding, but WCFL was NOT "Big 10" until around 1970. It was a phrase started by Joel Sebastian when he became PD there.
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
Only slightly kidding here...but I saw no listings on The Big 89
('LS/WENR shared-time) for Paul Harvey. What's the deal? ;)

Harvey started at "The Big Weener" in June 1944 but I don't know the exact day. He may or may not have been with WENR on D-Day. He wasn't on the full ABC network until 1951.
 
Prais said:
Oldies Fan,
I know you were kidding, but WCFL was NOT "Big 10" until around 1970.

10-4, but as 'LS wasn't dubbed "The Big 89" until sometime in its Top 40 era,
I was only using the more familiar (to many of us) heritage positioners.

BTW, since WENR (not WLS) held down the 890 freq. between 9:30-10pm,
I suppose that's why there was no "Boogie Check" in the listings. ;D
 
I noticed some Mutual programs that weren't
labeled as such: "Superman," for one, and the
newscasts of Fulton Lewis Jr. and Cedric Foster.

I have tapes of NBC's entire broadcast day that
day, and one thing that sticks out is that "Guiding
Light" devoted its entire program to a sermon by
Rev. Rutledge on the battle in Europe and hopes
for eventual victory for the Allies.

Also, "Let Yourself Go" was one of several unsuccessful
attempts to make a radio star out of Milton Berle. On
this show, celebrities and people from the audience got
to act out their fondest wish (one contestant wanted to
knock a top hat off Berle's head with a baseball). Berle
once said the show might have worked on television.
His day would come, almost four years to the day (June 8,
1948), on NBC television's "Texaco Star Theater."
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
Also noticed that Breakfast Club aired in full from 8-9am CT
on Big 10 WCFL, but only the last half hour on 'LS (simulcast?)
which, as the Blue affil, would seem to be its "normal" home.
I guess on the Prairie Farmer Station, Red Foley outranked Don McNeill.
...NBC Blue/ABC, specifically because of the independence that Burridge Butler of Prairie Farmer demanded WLS display in its dealings with the network, held WCFL as a backup affiliate for those programs WLS refused to carry when WENR wasn't on the frequency; this continued until WENR and WLS merged into one station in 1959. This arrangement was most often in relation to sports events (I have an aircheck of a post-season Cubs-White Sox game from the '30s that NBC Blue produced and aired over WCFL), unsponsored programs (which, at least on the morning of December 8, 1941, was the case with The Breakfast Club), sponsored programs that crossed the times when WENR and WLS exchanged control of 870/890 kHz, and talks by union leaders (WCFL being a labor organization-owned station). Both Butler at WLS and Ed Nockels at WCFL caused the development of quite a few ulcers inside NBC executives in New York in the '30s ;D ...
 
bpatrick said:
I have tapes of NBC's entire broadcast day that day, and one thing that sticks out is that "Guiding
Light" devoted its entire program to a sermon by Rev. Rutledge on the battle in Europe and hopes
for eventual victory for the Allies.

...I have the recordings from both WEAF/NBC and the network linecheck from CBS. I made a couple of Echoes of a Century programs out of material from the NBC tapes -- http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2009/06/05/echoes-of-a-century-the-early-hours-of-d-day-june-6-1944/ and http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2009/06/05/echoes-of-a-century-the-later-sounds-of-d-day-june-6-1944/ -- and find the choppy nature of the early hours particularly fascinating, but for my money, Bob Trout did much better anchoring on the CBS coverage (even if he did annoyingly talk over the Wright Bryan report that was being fed in pool fashion)...
 
KeithE4 said:
WDLM (Moody Bible Inst.; ex-W75C) 47.5 moved to 95.5, became WMBI-FM, and is now on 90.1 after selling the 95.5 transmitter to what became WDHF (now WNUA).

The WDLM-FM calls are still in Illinois at another Moody Radio affiliate--on 89.3 licensed to East Moline (Quad Cities) (plus sister station WDLM-AM 960, also licensed to East Moline). I'm not sure when the East Moline AM and FM incarnations of WDLM both signed on.
 
Ultimajock said:
bpatrick said:
I have tapes of NBC's entire broadcast day that day, and one thing that sticks out is that "Guiding
Light" devoted its entire program to a sermon by Rev. Rutledge on the battle in Europe and hopes
for eventual victory for the Allies.

...I have the recordings from both WEAF/NBC and the network linecheck from CBS. I made a couple of Echoes of a Century programs out of material from the NBC tapes -- http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2009/06/05/echoes-of-a-century-the-early-hours-of-d-day-june-6-1944/ and http://kingdaevid.podbean.com/2009/06/05/echoes-of-a-century-the-later-sounds-of-d-day-june-6-1944/ -- and find the choppy nature of the early hours particularly fascinating, but for my money, Bob Trout did much better anchoring on the CBS coverage (even if he did annoyingly talk over the Wright Bryan report that was being fed in pool fashion)...

One of the problems that day was getting as many on-the-scene reports on thea ir as possible. It was, possibly, the first time the networks allowed recordings; Edward R. Murrow had been chosen to coordinate all the reports and air them in some kind of order. Some had been recorded hours earlier by the time they got on the air. Since this was a new technique, it wouldn't surprise me if someone in the control room inadvertently overlapped the Trout/Bryan reports. (Was Trout in New York?)

Sort of off-topic, but D-Day proved in retrospect to be a test for recorded programs. It wouldn't be until 1947 that ABC became the first network to allow regular programs to be recorded; Bing Crosby insisted on it, and ABC allowed it just to get him on the network, while Groucho's "You Bet Your Life" was recorded to eliminate any risque remarks or unfunny exchanges.
 
bpatrick said:
One of the problems that day was getting as many on-the-scene reports on thea ir as possible. It was, possibly, the first time the networks allowed recordings
...no, the first time that NBC allowed a recording over its networks was with Herb Morrison's WLS description of the Hindenburg disaster in May 1938; shortly after that, NBC regularly allowed Information Please to be recorded for replay in the Western and Hawaii time zones, as a spontaneous quiz program couldn't be produced all over again three hours after its original broadcast. And Mutual never had any rule prohibiting recordings over its web; in fact, the Summer 1938 B.F. Goodrich-sponsored run of The Shadow was all pre-recorded, which explains why Orson Welles could be heard on Mutual as Lamont Cranston at the very same time he was rehearsing a production of "Julius Caesar" for CBS' Mercury Theatre on-the-air that would air live two hours later on 11 September 1938...
it wouldn't surprise me if someone in the control room inadvertently overlapped the Trout/Bryan reports. (Was Trout in New York?)
...yes, Trout was live in New York, and CBS had him interrupt the feed of Bryan's report as it was coming in from the BBC's shortwave facilities in England...
It wouldn't be until 1947 that ABC became the first network to allow regular programs to be recorded; Bing Crosby insisted on it, and ABC allowed it just to get him on the network, while Groucho's "You Bet Your Life" was recorded to eliminate any risque remarks or unfunny exchanges.
...again, as I showed above, you assume wrong re transcribed programming on networks. In addition, I believe ABC also allowed The Henry Morgan Show to be recorded for replay in the West in 1946, when Crosby was still on NBC...
 
Ultimajock said:
...Herb Morrison's WLS description of the Hindenburg disaster in May 1938...

It was May 6, 1937. "Oh, the humanity!"

Or was it October 30, 1978? "Oh, the humanity!" ;D
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
Ultimajock said:
...Herb Morrison's WLS description of the Hindenburg disaster in May 1938...

It was May 6, 1937. "Oh, the humanity!"

Or was it October 30, 1978? "Oh, the humanity!" ;D
...the typo is duly corrected. BTW, actor Frank Readick, who did the "Who knows what evil lurks..." openings on the Orson Welles runs (1937-38) of The Shadow also played Carl Phillips, the newscaster who gets zapped at Grover's Mill in the Mercury Theatre On-the-air production of "The War of the Worlds" from 30 October 1938, and boned up for the zapping sequence by listening to a commercially-released record of Herb Morrison's Hindenburg broadcast. I assume that's your reference in that last line...
 
Ultimajock said:
oldiesfan6479 said:
It was May 6, 1937. "Oh, the humanity!"
Or was it October 30, 1978? "Oh, the humanity!" ;D
...by listening to a commercially-released record of Herb Morrison's Hindenburg broadcast.
I assume that's your reference in that last line...

Nope.

But here's a clue:
"The crowd is curious...but well-behaved."
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
Ultimajock said:
oldiesfan6479 said:
It was May 6, 1937. "Oh, the humanity!"
Or was it October 30, 1978? "Oh, the humanity!" ;D
...by listening to a commercially-released record of Herb Morrison's Hindenburg broadcast.
I assume that's your reference in that last line...
Nope.

But here's a clue:
"The crowd is curious...but well-behaved."
...dunno then. Some 40th Anniversary production?...
 
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