Things that make you go hmmmmm

[mbayus]

I just downloaded the complete D-Day radio broadcast as airchecked on WEAF, the Nbc Radio flagship station in New York City. On it is an add inviting us to tune in to WNBT tonight at 8M for a film about our fighting men. I thought that all television was suspended from 1942 until after the war.
Hmmmmm
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[azumanga]

In the US, television broadcast was still allowed, but was curtailed to only four hours per week.

 

[mbayus]

Just so you know, I found the complete NBC D-Day broadcast at, http://www.archive.org. There is also a somewhat shorter D-Day broadcast from CBS. The NBC one starts at 3:00 AM on June 6th 1944, and ends at 6:00 PM on June 7th. Some 39 hours of listening. You can listen to individual files, or download them, or you can download the whole thing as a zip file. There is also a vast array of old tv shows dating from the late 1940s to about 1970. to search for radio, type a key word in the edit box, like D-Day and chuse Audio from the combo box to the right, and to find tv shows, do the same, but chuse Moving images in the combo box. Enjoy.

 

[Ultimajock]

I just downloaded the complete D-Day radio broadcast as airchecked on WEAF, the Nbc Radio flagship station in New York City. On it is an add inviting us to tune in to WNBT tonight at 8M for a film about our fighting men.

...that, it should be pointed out, is the oldest radio advertisment for a specific television program known to survive. The TV program was narrated by H.V. Kaltenborn, then the top NBC news commentator (he'd started the war in September 1939 as a London-based commentator for CBS, alongside Edward R. Murrow)...