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"The Ohio Story" and more

J

johnbasalla

"The Ohio Story" is a famous 15 minute radio program that made the transition to television in, I think, 1952. How long did it last on radio and TV?
One of the best episodes is a radio dramatization of the life of Olympic Gold Medalist Harrison Dillard which was apparently aired while he was at the Olympics in 1948. I dubbed to CD a good number of "The Ohio Story" radio programs produced between 1947 and 1949. The ones from 1948 and 1949 are mostly in real good shape. Tom Fields, later WEWS TV5 news anchor, is the announcer.

I ran across another series... "Let's Explore Ohio" sponsored by the Standard Oil Company. It says on the original 16" Electrical Transcription discs... Produced for the McCann-Erickson Company. There are 32 programs of which 30 of them are in good enough shape to play. There are no dates on the discs, but I'm guessing the early to mid 1940s.
If you have any information, I'd like to know.
 
I would love to see these again. These were played in our geography class at St. Rita's school in Solon when I was a kid.
 
John:
If you have access to the Cleveland Classic Media Facebook Page, Just this last week I posted several times about the Ohio Story in the 1950's..I have been wanting, practically begging to hear some of these..either from the 40's or 50's..

Here on YouTube is an Ohio Story TV episode.  Based on my research, This episode was aired September 11, 1955 on WXEL-8..Between games of an Indians-Yankees Doubleheader around 4:30PM..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNkvhezzy5A

It appears both the Radio and TV Ohio Story were phased out by about 1960-61..I had never heard of "Let's Explore Ohio" before..will have to look that up..
 
I just started airing them for the summer on the station. Please contact me via email if you'd like more information. I don't want to run afoul of "Radio Discussions" rules pertaining to promoting on-air activities.
 
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