#1938
“Fibber McGee and Molly” was a comedy series that aired on the NBC Red Network from 1935 to 1956. Jim and Marian Jordan, a husband-and-wife team, created and portrayed the characters, which became some of the most popular in the history of radio.
Wikipedia sums up the plot:
Fibber McGee and Molly…[featured] the habitual storyteller Fibber McGee and his sometimes terse but always loving wife Molly, living among their numerous neighbors and acquaintances in the community of Wistful Vista
Episodes are widely available for download. Here’s a sample:
Jackson “Peg” Moreland, who once sang over Dallas’ WFAA Radio (today’s KLIF-AM), died in 1973. Here’s a 1929 recording of him singing “When I Had But Fifty Cents:”
Here are earlier entries about St. Louis’ KXOK, today’s KYFI-AM.
This early ad for CBS Sports features Annie Oakley. She was a sharpshooter and exhibition shooter around the turn of the 20th century. The Ohio native toured the country with the Buffalo Bill Wild West show, performing trick shots. Oakley also starred in a few silent films featuring her skills.
Among the 1938 sports broadcasts CBS promotes: Tennis, a weekly football game, horse racing, golf and polo.
Source: Wikipedia (Annie Oakley)
Here are earlier entries about Chicago’s WLS-AM.
Here’s an earlier entry about the Texas State Network, which started in 1938. As of 2016, it’s known as Texas State Networks, based at Dallas’ KRLD-AM.
This 1938 ad for KLZ in Denver refers to the Munich Agreement, which allowed Nazi Germany’s annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia.
Here’s what “swing” sessions looked like in 1938. I couldn’t find any mention on the internet of Harry Lytle. If you know anything, please leave a note!
Columbus’ Ohio State University launched experimental station 8XL in 1920. In 1922, it became WEAO before adopting the WOSU call letters in 1933.
Over the decades, the station carried a wide variety of programs, featuring classical, jazz and opera. WOSU became an NPR member station.
The station’s classical music moved to WOSU-FM in 1980, which carried the music full-time as WOSU-AM carried more typical public radio programming.
In 2008, WOSU-FM added NPR news programming to its classical format, moving full-time classical music to it’s HD-2 radio service. WOSU-AM continued with its NPR news/talk programming.
In 2010, Ohio State purchased the license for 101.1 FM, which became WOSA-FM and carried the full-time classical format. WOSU-FM switched to a full-time simulcast of WOSU-AM’s news/talk programming.
The university sold WOSU-AM to St. Gabriel Radio in 2011. It became WVSG-AM, airing Catholic religious programming.
Source: Wikipedia (WOSU-AM)
