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war of the worlds 1938 <WATD>

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pioneer765

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On oct 31 2006 WATD 95.9fm at 8pm with three breaks will air the broadcast from 1938
if you cant get WATD 95.9fm on a radio use your CPU and log on to http://www.959watd.com/

As part of the 100 year of Radio First voice and music (1906) first in radio Marshfield Reginald Aubrey Fessenden WATD brings you this special broadcast
 
Bam-a-lam!!!!! Great job, Pioneer!! ;)
 
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While I think it's great that WATD is devoting an hour of Halloween to program "War of the Worlds"....there are dozens of better radio terror stories out there available for radio airplay.

Someone should 'dig up' (no pun intended) one or more of the following:

SUSPENSE: "On A Country Road" (with Cary Grant)
SUSPENSE: "Sorry, Wrong Number" (with Agnes Moorehead)
ESCAPE: "Blood Bath" (with Vincent Price)
INNER SANCTUM: "Corridors of Blood' (with Boris Karloff)
INNER SANCTUM: "Elixir #4" (with Richard Widmark)
LIGHTS OUT: "The Dark"/"Chicken Heart"
Robert Louis Stevenson: "The Signal Man"/"The Body Snatchers"
Edgar Allen Poe: "Masque of the Red Death"/"The Tell-Tale Heart"

Those shows and stories are REALLY scary! :eek:

argytunes
 
True, The Tell-Tale Heart is prob one of the scariest things I've heard/seen in a cartoon form. The reasoning for 'War of the Worlds' is pretty obvious...the significance of the broadcast and the impact it had on both the social and broadcast industry. It showed both the importance of radio, and the long lost innocence of a society that actually believed what they hear/see/read when it comes to media.
If college class memory serves me correct, the broadcast was not heard in Boston because the station that would have aired it was playing a church program at the time. If I'm incorrect I apologize.
Hey, it's halloween, would it be bad to air the audio of 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'? It's not like the movie could be any worse....
 
I'm sure all of those horror stories you've listed below are excellent, but do they also have to do with radio itself? They chose "War Of The Worlds" because it's a terror story that recounts a historical incident related to radio that really happened, and shows the impact that infamous radio broadcast itself had on society at that time.

It's an event of their "100'th Anniversary of Radio" celebration marking the century of radio since Fessenden's pioneering broadcast of voice and music together from Brant Rock.

Also, I'm not sure, but I think they may be having a local professional theatre troupe recreate the broadcast live, not just digging out a vintage radio show recording.

argytunes said:
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While I think it's great that WATD is devoting an hour of Halloween to program "War of the Worlds"....there are dozens of better radio terror stories out there available for radio airplay.

Someone should 'dig up' (no pun intended) one or more of the following:

SUSPENSE: "On A Country Road" (with Cary Grant)
SUSPENSE: "Sorry, Wrong Number" (with Agnes Moorehead)
ESCAPE: "Blood Bath" (with Vincent Price)
INNER SANCTUM: "Corridors of Blood' (with Boris Karloff)
INNER SANCTUM: "Elixir #4" (with Richard Widmark)
LIGHTS OUT: "The Dark"/"Chicken Heart"
Robert Louis Stevenson: "The Signal Man"/"The Body Snatchers"
Edgar Allen Poe: "Masque of the Red Death"/"The Tell-Tale Heart"

Those shows and stories are REALLY scary! :eek:

argytunes
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:eek:

Actually, Eli...

SUSPENSE, ESCAPE, INNER SANCTUM, and LIGHTS OUT were original radio shows.

"On A Country Road" has a radio announcer reporting that a crazy woman is loose in the area.

"The Dark" is a great story about a man who has been turned inside out...and yet, he's still alive!

"Chicken Heart"----I don't have to reference. Comedian and college professor, William H. Cosby, did that several years ago when he was recording stand-up comedy albums!

Several years ago, I had produced a 3-hour Halloween horror program for a few radio stations in Maine and Massachusetts...which I called HALLOWEIRD. The shows above...along with the ones I mentioned in my earlier post...were included.

argytunes
 
91.5 WMLN curry college radio (now heard on the internet as well) has been doing this for years and i think we will re-broadcast again uninterrupted both october 30th and 31st...
 
last Saurday While on remote and tuning my radio into 95.9 i got 95.1 (CAPE STATON??) with old time radio shows it was after 7pm if i hadnt been working I would have listen to it. It seems to be big We at WATD just got a package on these old time radio shows. I wish we had a spot to run them.
 
pioneer765 said:
last Saurday While on remote and tuning my radio into 95.9 i got 95.1 (CAPE STATON??) with old time radio shows it was after 7pm if i hadnt been working I would have listen to it.
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The station you heard was WXTK in West Yarmouth, the major news/talk station for the Cape. They run a nationally syndicated old-time radio show program called "Radio Revisited" on weekends 7 PM - 12 Midnight.
 
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Actually...NEWSTALK WLOB (1310AM/96.3FM) has been broadcasting classic radio shows on Sunday nights (6-10pm) for several years. They've also aired the syndicated TWILIGHT ZONE show before and after the 4-hours of classic OTR shows.

The only time the OTR shows don't run...or are db'd by an hour or more...is when there's a sports conflict! Atlantic Coast Radio (WLOB is one of their stations) will occasionally 'bump' OTR in favor of the Boston Red Sox or some other sport?

But for the most part, the shows play every single Sunday night.

argytunes
 
OTR on WXRB/95.1, Dudley-Webster, MA (was Re: war of the worlds 1938 <WATD>)

If you can't get WATD's "War Of The Worlds" broadcast in Southern Worcester County or Northeastern Connecticut, don't worry. WXRB/95.1 Dudley-Webster, MA will also run the entire 1938 "War Of The Worlds" on Halloween Night at 9:00 PM.

And if you're into Old Time Radio, 'XRB also runs "FM Flashback!" EVERY Sunday night from 8:00 PM until 11:00 PM. It's three hours of OTR featuring "Gunsmoke", "Dragnet", "Abbott & Costello", "Duffy's Tavern" and a variable hour between 10:00 PM and 11:00 PM with shows like "Fibber McGee & Molly", "I Was A Communist For The FBI", "Father Knows Best" and quite a lot more. BTW: At 11:00 PM, 'XRB runs Max Schmid's "Mass Backwards" (from WBAI/New York), featuring the original WOR "Jean Shepherd" shows.

Check it out!

-Pete
 
this program will air at 7pm now hope all will tune in or log on the net
I heard a lot of station are planing the same thing
 
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