TWO ANNIVERSARIES OF NOTE

[yonkstur]

Fifty years ago today, the NBC Radio Network signed on the air with MONITOR. Many regard Monitor as the forerunner of talk radio. What it did for me as a young kid growing up in NEPA was expose me to a sophisticated world of drama, theatre, culture and sports. I might not have known which opera was playing at the Met but I was aware that there was a Met. My favorites were Henry Morgan and Gene Rayburn.
Twenty Five years ago, Cable News Network (CNN) signed on and changed the way we looked at news forever. And since this is a radio board, CNN begat CNN Radio news. (Just wanted to keep it on topic).
yonkstur

 

[NigelWick]

> Fifty years ago today, the NBC Radio Network signed on the
> air with MONITOR. Many regard Monitor as the forerunner of
> talk radio. What it did for me as a young kid growing up in
> NEPA was expose me to a sophisticated world of drama,
> theatre, culture and sports. I might not have known which
> opera was playing at the Met but I was aware that there was
> a Met. My favorites were Henry Morgan and Gene Rayburn.
> Twenty Five years ago, Cable News Network (CNN) signed on
> and changed the way we looked at news forever. And since
> this is a radio board, CNN begat CNN Radio news. (Just
> wanted to keep it on topic).
> yonkstur
>


I loved Monitor, especially Bill Cullen.