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SEP 1 1899 Marconi forms American Marconi Company in New York City to sell wireless equipment to the U.S. Navy for point-to-point communication. 
​SEP 1 1928 The United Independent Broadcasters network, (predecessor to CBS), posts first year revenues of $177,000 but an operating loss of $220,000.
SEP 1 1932   Powerful KSL/Salt Lake City leaves NBC to affiliate with CBS.
SEP 1 1935  WXYZ/Detroit, one of the four original Mutual affiliates, leaves the network for NBC Blue.  The station’s Lone Ranger remains on Mutual until 1942 when it moves to Blue.
SEP 1 1935  NBC’s WMAQ/Chicago increases its power to 50,000 watts, giving the city five maximum power stations.
SEP 1 1936  CBS buys KNX/Los Angeles for $1.25 Million.
SEP 1 1936  GOP Presidential candidate Alf Landon recommends lengthening radio station license periods from six months to five years.
SEP 1 1936  NBC takes over management of Westinghouse owned KYW/Philadelphia from the Levy brothers, owners  of WCAU in that city. 
SEP 1 1936   Indicative of Hollywood’s increased radio production, ad agency J. Walter Thompson increases its Los Angeles staff from two to 25 employees. 
SEP 1 1936  NBC commentator John B. Kennedy tells a San Francisco convention of RCA dealers that practical television is still five to ten years away.
SEP 1 1936  Rudy Vallee punches a patron whom he suspected of throwing a bottle at him on the bandstand at the Canadian National Exposition in Toronto.  (See Thursday’s All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 1 1937   CBS, billing itself as “The World’s Largest Network” issues a new rate card, charging $21,770 for an evening hour on its full chain of 104 stations.  (See CBS Rates - Go Figure!)
SEP 1 1937  Chicago based Lady Esther Cosmetics, virtually unknown in 1931 turned a radio success story with its sponsorship of Wayne King’s orchestra, fires its ad agency Stack-Gobel for competitor Pedlar & Ryan. (See The Waltz King.)
SEP 1 1938   WQXR/New York City broadcasts a tape recording of the first act of Carmen recorded in London with the Millerfilm process, common in Europe but new to the United States..
SEP 1 1939   Germany’s invasion of Poland receives fulltime coverage by the network news bureaus.
SEP 1 1939  Tennessee Valley Authority lawyer James J. Fly succeeds Frank R. McNinch as Chairman of the FCC.  
SEP 1 1939  Ford presents six live, non-broadcast stage performances of The Green Hornet for ten days at its Michigan State Fair pavilion.  
SEP 1 1941  NBC enforces its ban on songs with a propaganda message for any cause on its sustaining programs and refuses to clear the title or lyrics of V For Victory.
SEP 1 1941  WOR/New York City prohibits one-minute commercials after 6:00 p.m. 
SEP 1 1941   Alabama Congressman Luther Daniel begins a 15 minute weekday after-noon human interest commentary on WWDC/Washington for a reported $50 dollars a week.
SEP 1 1941  Philco begins operating W3XE(TV)/Philadelphia 15 hours a week on a 60 day commercial license.
SEP 1 1942   NBC drops its identification as The Red Network.
SE[ 1 1944   General Foods moves The Aldrich Family - a Top Ten Show on NBC’s Thursday schedule for four seasons - to CBS on Friday nights where it drops to 18th in the Annual Top 50.  (See The Aldrich Family and Thursday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 1 1944   WJR/Detroit bans commercials in the middle of its local newscasts.
SEP 1 1945  Technical and censorship problems are blamed for the 90 minute delay of the network pool broadcast of the Japanese surrender ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri narrated by NBC’s Merrill Mueller and Webley Edwards of CBS.  (See V-J Day.)
SEP 1 1945   President Truman’s address during the Japanese surrender ceremonies registers a 46.8 Hooperating.
SEP 1 1946   CBS releases a survey indicating that 54% of women at home in the daytime listen to soap operas for an average of 90 minutes daily.
SEP 1 1947  Mutual joins ABC, CBS and NBC subscribing to the Nielsen Index Rating service, providing A.C. Nielsen with a combined annual network revenue of over $125,000.  (See Radio's Rulers: Crossley, Hooper & Nielsen.)
SEP 1 1947  Producers begin writing children out of New York City radio shows as a new law prohibits kids under 16 from appearing without written consent by their guardians followed by a Certificate of Approval from the Mayor’s office.  (See Let's Pretend.)
SEP 1 1947   DuMont sets new rates for its WABD(TV)/New York City with 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. quoted at $80 per minute and $800 per hour. (See Dr. DuMont’s Predictions.)
SEP 1 1947  Gillette pays $100,000 to Major League Baseball for television rights to the 1947 World Series.
SEP 1 1948  The CBS raid on NBC’s comedy stars begins as CBS buys Amos & Andy from Freeman Gosden & Charles Correll for $2.5 Million over three years. The comedians are then taxed at the 25% capital gains rate instead of the 80% income tax bracket. The plan then has CBS leasing Gosden & Correll’s services to Lever Brothers as technical advisors for “...a minimal salary”.   (See Amos & Andy: Twice Is Nicer, Multiple Runs All Time Top Ten and Sunday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 1 1948   MCA receives a 10% commission in the $2.5 Million sale of Amos & Andy to CBS.
SEP 1 1948 The Chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the FCC describes the Commission’s Scott Decision granting time to atheist and other groups, “unfortunate,” and calls for a revision.
SEP 1 1949   Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer begins the syndication of four radio series based on its movie properties The Hardy Family, Dr. Kildare, Maisie and Crime Does Not Pay plus all-star MGM Theater of The Air.  (See Radio Goes To The Movies and The 1949-50 Season.)
SEP 1 1950   ABC’s Lone Ranger, The Fat Man, The Sheriff, This Is Your FBI and Friday Night Fights monopolize the ratings leaving CBS and NBC without a sponsor between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. on Friday for the first time.  (See The 1950-51 Season.)
SEP 1 1950   The Adventures of The Thin Man leaves the air after a nine year, multi-network run.  (See  Married Sleuths and The Curse of Dashiell  Hammett.)
SEP 1 1950   A.C. Nielsen discards Telephone Coincidental polling in its audience surveys and begins to rely entirely on its expanded Audimeter mechanical system.  (See Radio’s Rulers: Crossley, Hooper & Nielsen.)
SEP 1 1950    News analyst Quincy Howe, 50, leaves Network Radio after 12 years to teach journalism at the University of Illinois.
SEP 1 1950  AT&T opens its relay system providing a live television link between New York and Chicago.
SEP 1 1950   By a split vote of 4-2-1, the FCC issues its color television report favoring the CBS mechanical system but gives set manufacturers a month to respond before making the decision final.   
SEP 1 1952   Classic Western Gunsmoke is ordered for the full 1952-53 season on CBS along with four other summer replacements, The Doris Day Show, The Steve Allen Show, December Bride and London produced Horatio Hornblower.  (See Gunsmoke.)  
SEP 1 1952   ABC, CBS and NBC cut nighttime radio rates by 25%.
SEP 1 1952 Newsman Edwin C. Hill, 68,  brings his Human Side of The News to ABC for a final year’s run Monday through Friday nights at 10:55 p.m.
SEP 1 1953  NBC Radio announces a $5.0 Million revamping of its schedule with a Magic 28 new programs including Six Shooter starring James Stewart and Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune.
SEP 1 1953   CBS Radio tells affiliates of a “six-figure“ promotional campaign for its fall schedule including new shows 21st Precinct, Crime Classics and The Johnny Mercer Show. (See CBS Packages Unwrapped.)

SEP 2 1928  Jack Benny and wife Mary Livingston make their film debut in Warner Brothers’ ten-minute short, Bright Moments.
SEP 2 1932   Networks begin to encourage audiences to applaud and laugh during major variety shows at the insistance of their stars.                                                             
SEP 2 1934  Early network singing star Russ Columbo dies in a freak shooting accident at age 26.
SEP 2 1935  WQAM/Miami becomes a key emergency station as the Labor Day Category 5 hurricane strikes southeast Florida killing more than 400, mostly in the Florida Keys.
SEP 2 1936   Blue begins nine weeks of broadcasting results of the Literary Digest’s Presidential Poll in three 15 minute programs per week hosted by commentator John B. Kennedy.
SEP 2 1940   Stromberg-Carlson becomes the first radio set manufacturer to advertise its FM receivers
SEP 2 1941   NBC announces the completion of its Pan American Network with 92 stations agreeing to rebroadcast programs transmitted by NBC’s international shortwave stations, WRCA and WNBI.
SEP 2 1941  Popular New York City women’s show host Mary Margaret McBride moves her weekday program from CBS-owned WABC to NBC's WEAF beginning with a special episode from the Vanderbilt Theater. 
SEP 2 1941  Campana’s First Nighter returns for its 12th season on Network Radio, its fourth straight on CBS.  (See Friday’s All Time Top Ten.) 
SEP 2 1942   One Man’s Family and I Love A Mystery actor Walter Patterson, 31, is found dead in his car, an apparent suicide.  (See I Love A Mystery and I Love A Sequel.)
SEP 2 1943   FCC denies the CIO’s petition to intervene in hearings regarding RCA’s sale of the Blue Network to Edward Noble.
SEP 2 1944   Veteran radio entertainer Ed McConnell, 62, begins his nine year run with Smilin’ Ed’s Buster Brown Gang on NBC’s Saturday morning schedule.  He later hosted an NBC-TV version of the show from 1950 to 1955.
SEP 2 1945   Most stations carry the AFRS Sunday night salute to the Armed Forces with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Frances Langford,  Orson Welles and President Truman’s Victory Speech to The Military. The half-hour scores a 31.3 Hooperating.  (See Radio's Rulers: Crossley, Hooper & Nielsen.)
SEP 2 1946   ABC’s Breakfast Club becomes totally sold out and the highest gross billing hour in Network Radio at $4.44 Million annually.  (See The Gold In The Golden Age and Radio Nets' Grosses.)
SEP 2 1946   The Political Action Committee of the CIO instructs its unions’ members to complain to the FCC if local stations refuse to grant free time for its transcribed messages.
SEP 2 1946  Mutual’s weeknight news commentaries of Fulton Lewis, Jr., reaches a record 207 stations buying the co-op program for local sale.
SEP 2 1946  NBC’s WNBT(TV)/New York City completes its Labor Day weekend of televised sports coverage with the National Tennis Championships from Forest Hills. 
SEP 2 1949   AFM President James Petrillo demands that his members who are also members of the American Guild of Variety Artists cancel their AGVA memberships “immediately”.  (See Petrillo!)
SEP 2 1949  The DuMont Television Network agrees to become a fulltime cable customer of AT&T which will give it unlimited access to feed programming to its 45 affiliated stations.  (See Dr. DuMont’s Predictions.)  
SEP 2 1950   Frank Graham, 35 year old lead of Jeff Regan, Investigator and producer-star of Satan’s Waitin’ - both CBS shows - is found dead in his car, an obvious suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. 
SEP 2 1950   Singer Snooky Lanson, (aka Roy Landman), begins a five year contract to appear on both the weekly radio and television versions of Your Hit Parade.  
SEP 2 1953  ABC Radio offers its 363 affiliates a record 18 different co-op programs totaling over 20 hours per week for local sale.  

SEP 3 1934   WHAM/Rochester, New York, announces that it will no longer accept paid political advertising.
SEP 3 1935   Scripps-Howard newspapers enters broadcasting with an application to purchase WFBE/Cincinnati and change its call sign to WCPO, representing The Cincinnati Post.
SEP 3 1935   NBC sells out all periods in its prime time evening schedule except one half hour on Tuesday night and another 30 minute period on Sunday night.  CBS and Blue also report near sell-out status.  (See The Gold In The Golden Age.)
​SEP 3 1935   CBS and NBC charge that an ANPA brochure minimizing the value and effectiveness of broadcast advertising contains errors and misrepresentations. 
SEP 3 1936   CBS sends newsman H.V. Kaltenborn, 58, to Spain to provide shortwave dispatches from the Spanish Civil War.  (See H.V. Kaltenborn and Multiple Runs All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 3 1936   Maxwell House Showboat’s afternoon dress rehearsal and two evening broadcasts draw a record breaking total audience of 32,000 at Cleveland’s Great Lakes Exposition. (See Thursday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 3 1939   The networks carry shortwave reports at 6:14 a.m. that Great Britain and France have declared war on Nazi Germany.
SEP 3 1939   WJR/Detroit is accused by Michigan Governor Luren Dickinson of censoring his planned speech denouncing the evils of modern, cheek-to-cheek dancing. 
SEP 3 1939   The Chase & Sanborn Hour with Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy is broadcast from Honolulu where Bergen is vacationing. (See Sunday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 3 1939   The networks report at 11:13 p.m. that German torpedoes have sunk the first British ship in World War II - the cruise ship Athenia 250 miles west of Ireland - killing 117 persons.
SEP 3 1941  Lowell Thomas moderates a two hour retrospective on Blue reviewing Network Radio’s part in covering the two years of war as seen by the reporters and commentators on NBC’s two networks.  (See Multiple Runs All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 3 1943   Bob Hope, accompanied by Frances Langford, Tony Romano and Jack Pepper, returns from an eleven week, 20,000 mile USO tour to Great Britain, North Africa and Sicily, performing over 160 camp and hospital shows.  (See Hope From Home.)
SEP 3 1945   FCC modifies its 1942 order requiring stations to cut transmitter power by one decibel, making the mandate “optional”. 
SEP 3 1945   Comedienne Joan Davis opens Joanie’s Tea Room on CBS for Lever Brothers‘ Swan Soap with a highly publicized million dollar contract but her first show draws a poor 8.3 Hooperating.  (Radio's Rulers: Crossley, Hooper & Nielsen.)
SEP 3 1946   Goodman Ace takes office as the CBS Supervisor of Comedy & Variety Programs.  (See Easy Aces.)
SEP 3 1946   University of Minnesota station KUOM begins full days of broadcasting school lessons when a severe polio epidemic closes schools and keeps children at home.
SEP 3 1946   Mel Blanc begins his one season run of The Mel Blanc Show on CBS.  (See Mel Blanc.)
SEP 3 1948   A New Jersey Appeals Court reverses the FCC’s Port Huron Decision of January, 1948, and rules that stations can be held responsible for libelous statements made in political speeches.
SEP 3 1948   NBC begins the three Labor Day holiday with Tex McCrary’s 15 minute documentary, Death On A Weekend, warning of the dangers of careless and reckless driving.
SEP 3 1951  President Truman’s Labor Day appeal for the U.S. Defense Bonds Drive is broadcast by ABC, CBS, Liberty, Mutual, NBC and most independent stations.
SEP 3 1951   Bob Hope headlines Dudley LeBlanc’s Hadacol Caravan of Stars in Louisville and Cincinnati but crowds in both cities are disappointing as pressure mounts against the tonic‘s alcohol content.  (See Hadacol.)
SEP 3 1952   NBC Radio follows CBS’s lead by cutting nighttime rates by 23 to 30%, increasing daytime rates by 11% and reducing affiliates’ compensation by 14%.
SEP 3 1952   Bishop Fulton J. Sheen announces that he’ll leave NBC Radio’s Catholic Hour after 22 years to focus on his popular Life Is Worth Living television series on the DuMont network. 
SEP 3 1952   Radio version of CBS-TV’s What’s My Line? moves from NBC after three months to CBS for a one season run while the television show remains a Sunday night fixture on CBS-TV until 1967.
SEP 3 1953   ABC abandons its attempts to buy 50,000 watt KMPC/Los Angeles from its owners headed by Gene Autry.

SEP 4 1935   KNX/Los Angeles begins broadcasting from its new $250,000 studios on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard.
SEP 4 1935   WCKY/Covington, Kentucky-Cincinnati approves plans for a new 600 foot transmitter tower - the tallest wooden structure in the United States.
SEP 4 1936   Gordon Baking Co.  renews its 52 week sponsorship of The Lone Ranger on WXYZ/Detroit, WOR/New York City, WGN/Chicago and WSPD/Toledo.  (See The Lone Ranger.)
SEP 4 1936   Barbara Luddy succeeds Betty Lou Gerson as the female lead of First Nighter, a role she will hold for the next 13 years. (See Friday’s All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 4 1938   NBC’s Fitch Bandwagon begins the first of seven seasons showcasing popular dance bands on Sunday evenings.  (See Sunday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 4 1939   Unitarian minister Walton Cole protests to the FCC after his speech denouncing the political talks of Father Charles Coughlin is cancelled by WJR/Detroit, anchor station for Coughlin’s independent weekly network of 60 stations.  (See Father Coughlin.)
SEP 4 1940   Summer substitution hit Quiz Kids begins its twelve season multi-network run on Blue.  (See The Quiz Kids.)  
SEP 4 1942   AFM boss James Petrillo makes the union's recording ban complete by reversing his earlier decision and prohibiting his members from making commercial transcriptions.  (See Petrillo!)
SEP 4 1942   Petrillo attempts to forbid GE’s non-commercial shortwave staton KGEI/San Francisco from broadcasting transcribed music to U.S. forces in the Pacific.
SEP 4 1942   NBC reports 16 sponsors of 21 programs take advantage of the network’s 10% discount for buying the full network of 125 stations.
SEP 4 1943   Distiller Schenley begins its experimental Saturday morning entertainment show Dubonnet Date with Xavier Cugat’s orchestra on Blue.  The program is cancelled after 13 weeks.
SEP 4 1944   A Labor Day crowd of 60,000 turns out for Midwest Farmer Day in Yankton, South Dakota, and an appearance by Brace Beemer as The Lone Ranger.  (See The Lone Ranger.)
SEP 4 1946   FCC updates its December, 1945, FM allocation plan providing for more than 1,600 stations.
SEP 4 1946   NBC presents The City of Decision, a documentary written and narrated by Tex McCrary who witnessed the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima a year earlier.  
SEP 4 1947  Marshall Field’s WJJD/Chicago is elevated to 50,000 watts.
SEP 4 1949  The talent raid on NBC continues as sponsor Philip Morris moves Horace Heidt’s Youth Opportunity Program to CBS.
SEP 4 1950  Armour’s Dial Soap introduces its new weekday morning 15 minute variety show, Dial Dave Garroway, on NBC, featuring the Chicago personality, vocalists Connie Russell and Jack Haskell with the Art Van Damme Quintet. 
SEP 4 1950  Edward R. Murrow returns to his weeknight news commentary on CBS after a four-week tour of the war zones in Korea.
SEP 4 1950   Tommy Bartlett, host of NBC’s Chicago-based Welcome Travelers and a private pilot, uses his pontoon plane to rescue a group of passengers whose boat was grounded by a sandbar in the middle of Lake Calumet.
SEP 4 1951   San Francisco’s Japan Peace Treaty Conference becomes the first live coast-to-coast television broadcast.  President Truman’s opening address, seen on the four networks, scores a 50.2 Nielsen rating and reaches an estimated 14.67 Million viewers.
SEP 4 1951  Connecticut Senator William Benton formally proposes establishing the National Citizens Advisory Board For Radio & Television attached to the FCC which broadcasters immediately assail as an attempt of political censorship.
SEP 4 1952  AFM chief Petrillo issues a ban prohibiting band leaders from recording promotional voice tracks for play on local disc jockey programs. (See Petrillo!)

SEP 5 1932   Independent station KNX/Los Angeles editorializes that RCA is attempting a monopoly in broadcasting between its NBC network and its transmitter businesses. 
SEP 5 1936  The struggling Affiliated Broadcasting Company network. fires all employees not essential to network operations.
SEP 5 1937  The Zenith Radio Corp. debuts The Zenith Foundation dramas on Blue without commercials, relying instead on listeners’ “extrasensory perception“.  The program was moved to CBS three months later and cancelled after 26 weeks.
SEP 5 1937  With the addition of WEOA/Evansville, Indiana and KDAL/Duluth, Minnesota, CBS grows to 106 affiliates.
SEP 5 1938   Don Becker and Carl Bixby’s daily serial Life Can Be Beautiful begins its 16 season run between NBC and CBS.  (See Soft Soap & Hard Sell.)
SEP 5 1938   FTC orders the Gordon Baking Co. to stop falsely claiming in its Lone Ranger commercials that each loaf of its Silver Cup Bread contains, "...two-thirds of a pint of fresh, whole milk."  (See The Lone Ranger.)
SEP 5 1939   Foreign language station WHOM/New York City cancels its morning German Program and replaces it with  The Polish Program.
SEP 5 1940  Good News begins its third season on NBC with Fanny Brice, Dick Powell, Mary Martin and Meredith Willson but without the participation of MGM.  (See Good News, Frank Morgan, Baby Snooks and Meredith Willson.)
SEP 5 1940  Bing Crosby denies that he would “quit radio” if he were unable to perform ASCAP music on his Kraft Music Hall.  (See Thursday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 5 1943  Kay Kyser’s College of Musical Knowledge troupe leaves on a month long, 16 city tour to sell bonds for the Third War Loan Drive.  (See Kay Kyser and  Wednesday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 5 1943  Hollywood reporter Jimmie Fidler apologizes on the air to actress Gene Tierney for saying she smoked cigars, thus ending her 20th Century Fox studio’s year long boycott against NBC and Blue.
SEP 5 1944   CBS ships a series of 19 five-minute transcribed programs by Kate Smith and her manager/announcer Ted Collins promoting the network’s 1944-45 Sunday schedule to its 146 affiliates.  (See The 1944-45 Season.)
SEP 5 1944   A New York Supreme Court judge dismisses Warner Brothers Music’s $100,000 suit against American Tobacco for “mishandling” its song, Don’t Sweetheart Me, by ranking too low on Lucky Strike’s Your Hit Parade.
SEP 5 1944   CBS files applications with the FCC to construct UHF television stations in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and St. Louis.
SEP 5 1947  The U.S. Senate Interstate Commerce Committee disputes ABC commen-tator Drew Pearson’s charges that Ohio Congressman Robert F. Jones was once a member of the racist Black Legion and approves his appointment to the FCC.  
SEP 5 1947   C.E Hooper buys a former orphanage in Norwalk, Connecticut, for its new corporate headquarters.  (See Radio's Rulers: Crossley, Hooper & Nielsen.)
SEP 5 1949  NBC’s Voice of Firestone becomes the first regularly scheduled AM-TV simulcast.
SEP 5 1949  American Tobacco’s Lucky Strike Light Up Time with Frank Sinatra takes over the 7:00-7:15 p.m. NBC weeknight strip held for five seasons by Liggett & Myers’ Chesterfield Supper Club starring Perry Como. 
SEP 5 1949  Armchair Detective, the first television drama kinescoped in Hollywood and shown in Eastern cities on CBS, is cancelled after a 13 week run against NBC-TV’s live Kraft Television Theater on Wednesday nights.   
SEP 5 1950   After a decade of Procter & Gamble sponsorship on NBC, Ralph Edwards moves his Truth Or Consequences to CBS for Philip Morris cigarettes.  (See Truth Or Consequences.)
SEP 5 1950  Jack Armstrong, All American Boy ends 18 years as an afternoon feature and enters prime time on ABC for one season as Armstrong of The SBI (aka The Scientific Bureau of Investigation).  (See Serials, Cereals & Premiums.)
SEP 5 1950   A former ukulele manufacturer sues Arthur Godfrey for $300,000, claiming Godfrey destroyed his business when the CBS star called his ukes, “…worthless junk,” on network radio and television.  (See Arthur Godfrey.)
SEP 5 1950  Dudley LeBlanc, Louisiana based producer of Hadacol tonic, heavily advertised on radio, agrees to FTC demands that he drop the product’s claims that it rejuvenates its users. (See Hadacol.)
SEP 5 1950  Bulova Watches signs leading radio and television stars led by Jack Benny, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope to endorse its watches and plug their shows its in prime time commercials.  No money changes hands but the networks’ time charge to air the spots exceeds $5.0 Million.   
SEP 5 1950  A U.S. Appeals Court denies the Pennsylvania State Board of Censors the power to censor movies shown on the state’s five television stations.
SEP 5 1951  CBS advertises Red Skelton’s radio show in the trade press for a weekly all-inclusive charge of $23,500.
SEP 5 1952   NBC-TV’s Today Show displays the Library of Congress copy of The Gutenberg Bible on its 500th birthday from the network’s Washington studios after it posts an insurance premium of  $300,000.

SEP 6 1933   Because sound effects technicians occasionally beat on drums, the New York City AFM local 802 demands that they join the musicians’ union. 
SEP 6 1935  Jack Benny escapes injury when the yacht in Puget Sound on which he was a guest was destroyed by fire but was beached before its gas tanks exploded.  
SEP 6 1936  Gillette launches its Community Sing starring Milton Berle on CBS following a ten week tryout on ten Yankee Network stations.
SEP 6 1936  With typical promotional fanfare, American Tobacco’s Lucky Strike cigarettes employs an armored truck service to collect and deliver pop music sales data used to compile its weekly play list for Your Hit Parade.  (See The Lucky Strike Sweepstakes and Saturday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 6 1937  Philco converts a Photocrime magazine feature into a16 week, 15 minute transcribed radio series on 200 stations and backs the show with a contest offering 2,000 prizes and a total prize value of $50,000. 
SEP 6 1937  WEW/St.Louis, operated for eleven years by St. Louis University as a non-commercial station, receives permission to accept advertising.
SEP 6 1937  Cleveland stations WTAM, WGAR, WHK and WJAY all cover the Thompson Trophy Speed Race, highlight of the 1937 National Air Races held in the city. 
SEP 6 1938   With the support of Wisconsin Governor Robert LaFollette, the University of Wisconsin, licensee of pioneer daytime station WHA/Madison, files a claim with the FCC to take over the facilities of NBC’s 50,000 watt fulltime WMAQ/Chicago. 
SEP 6 1939  WNEW/New York City agrees to pay RCA a license fee of $300 per month to play RCA-Victor and Bluebird records.
SEP 6 1939   Decca Records warns WNEW/New York City to stop playing its discs or face legal action.
SEP 6 1940   Writer Floyd Buckley sues NBC, MCA and General Mills for $250,000 claiming their program, Beat The Band, was stolen from his rejected concept, Stump The Leader, which was subtitled, Beat The Band.
SEP 6 1940  Crosley’s shortwave station WLWO bans Gaucho Serenade because of its lyric, “…Neath your window in Rio de Janeiro I shall sing my serenade…”  explaining that gauchos are cowboys in Brazil, nowhere near Rio.
SEP 6 1942  Lionel Barrymore, 64, debuts as Mayor of The Town on NBC and begins seven year multi-network run best known for its annual dramatizations of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. 
SEP 6 1943   WIP/Philadelphia and WOL/Washington stay on the air all night to report news of survivors from the Congressional Limited train wreck between Philadelphia and Washington that killed 79 and injured 117 passengers. 
SEP 6 1945  FCC approves the sale of Crosley broadcasting properties to AVCO for $21.0 Million but seeks Congressional power to employ a bidding process, “open to all comers,” in future sales with the Commission acting as the final judge to determine “the best qualified” applicant.
SEP 6 1946   FCC reverses itself and denies KABC/San Antonio its previously approved increase to 50,000 watts.  .  
SEP 6 1946   A Grand Rapids, Michigan court declares the defunct Associated Broad-casting System network officially bankrupt with $300,000 in liabilities and $32,500 in assets. 
SEP 6 1946  ABC begins live television production in Chicago with a weekly video version of its radio show Stump The Author on WBKB(TV).
SEP 6 1947  In an effort to limit squealing bobby-soxers on Frank Sinatra’s return to Your Hit Parade as co-star with Doris Day, NBC places an minimum age of 18 for all ticket holders to its broadcasts.  (See Saturday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 6 1948   NBC drops its long held ban against transcribed programs and eliminates the need for two live broadcasts of shows that are repeated for the West Coast.  (See The Late Shift.)
SEP 6 1948   CBS pays $20,000 to its former Program Sales Manager,  Robert Mann, for radio rights to his creation, Our Miss Brooks.  (See Our Miss Arden.)
SEP 6 1950   Willard Waterman replaces Hal Peary in title role of The Great Gildersleeve.  (See The Great Gildersleeve(s).)
SEP 6 1950   Don McNeill’s Breakfast Club begins daily simulcasts on ABC radio and television.
SEP 6 1950   C.E. Hooper announces its new television rating service covering twelve New York and Ohio cities.  (See Radio's Rulers: Crossley, Hooper & Nielsen.)
SEP 6 1950   WJZ-TV/New YorkCity introduces the weekday afternoon forerunner to American Bandstand on ABC-TV - a two-hour show hosted by country music star Zeke Manners. 
SEP 6 1951   NBC-TV and Gillette sign an agreement covering television rights to the World Series for four years and the Rose Bowl for three years.
SEP 6 1951  General Tire & Rubber changes the call sign of its newly acquired KFI-TV/Los Angeles to KHJ-TV. 
SEP 6 1951  After 16 years on Saturday night, Your Hit Parade moves to Thursday on NBC and begins the first of two seasons featuring Guy Lombardo’s Royal Canadians.  (See Guy Lombardo. )
SEP 6 1952  Radio and television networks cover Presidential candidates Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson appearing for the first time on the same stage but four hours apart at the National Plowing Contest in Plowtown, Minnesota. 

SEP 7 1929  CBS introduces The Adventures of Helen & Mary, the first network series directed to children.  It would become Let's Pretend in 1932.  (See Let's Pretend.)
SEP 7 1931  The Voice of Firestone begins its 23 year run on NBC, Mondays at 8:30 p.m. (See Monday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 7 1934  Evangelist Joseph Price representing The Cosmic Science Church of Los Angeles on WNEW/New York City and WICC/Bridgeport, Connecticut, is arrested by Federal authorities for using the mails to defraud. 
SEP 7 1936   NBC’s oldest commercial program, The A&P Gypsies, is cancelled after a twelve year run - two on WEAF/New York City and ten on the network.
SEP 7 1939   The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reverses a lower court decision and rules NBC harmless for 1935 remarks broadcast by Al Jolson which a hotel considered libelous and was awarded $15,000 damages.  
SEP 7 1940   The London Blitz begins and continues for the next 57 days.  The German bombing is reported by the networks on a daily basis via shortwave - most memorably by CBS correspondent Edward R. Morrow.
SEP 7 1940  Smilin’ Ed McConnell begins his 18th consecutive season on the air, his ninth for Sherwin-Williams subsidiary, Acme Lead White Paint, with a Saturday morning quarter hour of songs and chatter.
SEP 7 1941  President Roosevelt’s Labor Day speech on all four networks registers a 50.3 Hooperating.  (See Radio's Rulers: Crossley, Hooper & Nielsen.)
SEP 7 1941   General Electric’s shortwave station KGEI/San Francisco introduces its weekly record show, Musical Mail Bag, directed to servicemen and women in the Pacific.  The show is also simulcast on KYA/San Francisco for stateside listeners.
SEP 7 1942   Kay Kyser is named Chairman of The Committee of 25 (leading radio personalities) enlisted by the OWI to maintain morale in local communities.  (See Kay Kyser and Wednesday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 7 1942  The OWI asks all stations to begin broadcasting a series of 10 one-minute transcribed announcements per day for six weeks recorded by leading newscasters that explain America’s war effort.  
SEP 7 1942   Nearly 20 minutes of Norman Corwin’s final episode of An American In England series on CBS is obliterated by atmospheric conditions interrupting shortwave signals from London. 
SEP 7 1943   FCC denies without comment NBC’s request for an additional half hour of evening option time from its affiliates in return for a half hour of morning time.
SEP 7 1943  The National War Labor Board begins hearing testimony from the AFM and the electrical transcription companies concerning the union's 13-month recording ban.  (See Petrillo! and "By Transcription...")
SEP 7 1943  Veteran songwriter and performer Frank Crumit dies of a heart attack at 54.  At the time of his death, he and his wife Julia Sanderson were hosts of Saturday night’s Crumit & Sanderson Quiz, (aka Mr. Adam & Eve), on CBS.
SEP 7 1943  The Molle Mystery Theater opens as a mystery anthology on CBS for five year run.
SEP 7 1944   Owens-Illinois Glass pays a huge $18,500 to sponsor Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians in their new Thursday night half hour concerts on Blue at 7:00 p.m., but the opening show receives a meager Hooperating of 2.7.
SEP 7 1945   The fledgling Associated Broadcasting System network holds its first affiliate meeting for 15 stations at its headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
SEP 7 1945   Kay Kyser returns from a month long USO tour of the Pacific and asks American Tobacco for a year’s sabbatical from his College of Musical Knowledge.  (See  Kay Kyser and Wednesday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 7 1945   After four seasons on Mutual, Gillette moves its Friday night boxing broad-casts with Don Dunphy & Bill Corum back to Blue/ABC.
SEP 7 1946   Billboard cites a C.E. Hooper report showing that twelve of Network Radio’s Top 15 shows originate in Hollywood.   (See Radio's Rulers: Crossley, Hooper & Nielsen.)
SEP 7 1947   Edgar Bergen revises the format of his Sunday night NBC show to a sitcom tailored to each week’s guest. (See Sunday’s All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 7 1947   Host Phil Baker leaves the comedy quiz Take It Or Leave It after six years. 
SEP 7 1947   Sponsor Carter Products places two, 15-minute Hollywood gossip reports from Jimmie Fidler on Sunday nights - on Mutual at 8:30 and ABC at 10:30. 
SEP 7 1947   Theater Guild On The Air returns for its third season on ABC at 9:30 p.m. Sunday night, a half-hour earlier than before in an effort to increase ratings.
SEP 7 1949   A U.S. Appeals Court sides with the FCC in its decision to allow WJIM/ Lansing, Michigan, to shift from 1240 kc to 550 kc over the protests of WKRC/Cincinnati with had applied for a power increase on its 550 frequency.
SEP 7 1949  Jay Ward and Alex Anderson begin production of the first animated series for television, Crusader Rabbit, which will eventually grow to 455 four-minute episodes.
SEP 7 1950   Pabst Beer submits a winning bid of $125,000 for radio and television rights to the September Heavyweight Championship fight between Joe Louis & Ezzard Charles.
SEP 7 1950  Ralph Edwards brings his long running radio hit, Truth Or Consequences, to CBS-TV.  (See Truth Or Consequences.)
SEP 7 1951   NBC purchases the former Vitaphone movie lot in Brooklyn from Warner Brothers for $500,000.

SEP 8 1932   Jack Pearl, 38, introduces his Baron Munchausen on NBC’s Lucky Strike Hour, beginning a five year multi-network run. (See The 1932-33 Season.)
SEP 8 1932   Alumni protests force the Eastern Intercollegiate Association to drop its ban on football broadcasts.
SEP 8 1933  FCC lifts its strict limits on the number of 50,000 watt stations allowed, clearing the way for dozens of stations to increase power to the maximum level. 
SEP 8 1934   WOR/Newark is first to report the early morning fire aboard the luxury liner S.S. Morro Castle off the New Jersey coast in which 86 passengers and 49 crew members are killed.
SEP 8 1936  Fred Astaire is in Europe and unable to appear on the premiere of his NBC variety hour for Packard automobiles.  Jack Benny and Ginger Rogers substitute for him.
SEP 8 1937   New York City area stations WJZ, WMCA and WOR share the same broadcast of the New York Giants vs. Eastern College Football All-Stars game with sportscasters Bill Stern, (WJZ), Stan Lomax, (WOR) and Dick Fishell, (WMCA), reporting.  (See Bill Stern.)
SEP 8 1937  CBS broadcasts a two and a half hour George Gershwin Memorial Concert from the Hollywood Bowl starring Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Jose Iturbi, Oscar Levant and others plus the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Hall Johnson Choir beginning at 12:30 a.m. ET.
SEP 8 1939   In a rare departure from the norm, the management of KJR/Seattle and KGA/Spokane, both 5.000 watt facilities, refuse the opportunity to elevate to 50,000 watts, citing the expense to buy and operate the new equipment.
SEP 8 1939   RKO releases the first of its 18 one reel shorts based on Information Please. (See Information Please and Radio Goes To The Movies.)
SEP 8 1940   Lux Radio Theater announces plans for three major stars on every show and opens its season on CBS with Manhattan Melodrama featuring William Powell, Myrna Loy & Don Ameche.  (See Lux…Presents Hollywood! and Monday's All Time Top Ten.
SEP 8 1940 Leon F. Douglass, inventor and co-founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company, dies at 71 in San Francisco.  Douglass also coined Victor’s slogan, “His Master’s Voice.”​
SEP 8 1941  Adolescent sitcom That Brewster Boy begins a four year, multi-network run on NBC.
SEP 8 1942  Former Kay Kyser band singer Ginny Simms begins successful three year run on NBC with a program incorporating talented Armed Forces personnel. (See Kay Kyser.)
SEP 8 1942  Agent Tom Kennedy sues Red Skelton for $120,000, claiming that the comedian signed with the William Morris agency while still under contract to him.
SEP 8 1943  Blue is the first network to break the news of Italy’s surrender to the Allies at 10:47 a.m. - ten seconds before CBS.
SEP 8 1943  The four national networks broadcast U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower’s announcement of Italy’s surrender - but the first 20 seconds of his announcement, recorded on a disc at 33 1/3 r.p.m., is played at 78 r.p.m.  
SEP 8 1943  All networks and most independent stations carry the hour long Third War Loan kickoff show headlined by President Roosevelt, Bing Crosby, Burns & Allen, Edgar Bergen, Jimmy Durante, Dinah Shore and Kay Kyser's band.
SEP 8 1944  After a seven year absence, Ed Wynn returns to Network Radio as King Bubbles in the 26 week run of  Happy Island on ABC.  (See The 1944-45 Season.)
SEP 8 1945   Fifteen representatives of the broadcast industry return from their month long, 12,000 mile mission to European countries.
SEP 8 1945  William Bendix sitcom, The Life of Riley, moves from Blue to NBC and begins a string of six Top 50 seasons.
SEP 8 1945   Helen Hayes begins a Saturday night anthology series of original dramas by known playwrights for Textron fabrics on CBS for a reported $10,000 per week.
SEP 8 1946  Don Ameche and Frances Langford debut as The Bickersons on NBC’s Drene Time.
SEP 8 1946   Mutual lists 208 affiliates airing The Shadow and another 85 stations carrying the program via transcription from syndicator Charles Michelson. (See The Shadow Nos.)
SEP 8 1947   WMCA/New York City and 150 other stations debut bandleader Tommy Dorsey’s syndicated two hour daily transcribed disc jockey show.   
SEP 8 1949   ABC, CBS and NBC lawyers confer with the FCC seeking a 90 day stay of the Commission’s giveaway show ban to complete their litigation against the ruling.
SEP 8 1949   FCC holds hearings to determine the limits of its duopoly ownership rule, protested by WLW/Cincinnati owner, Crosley Broadcasting, which was prevented from buying WHAS/Louisville, 100 miles away.
SEP 8 1949   Perry Como begins his new half-hour Chesterfield Supper Club on NBC’s Thursday night schedule for a one season run. 
SEP 8 1949   The Associated Actors & Artists of America union representing 90,000 members supports the American Guild of Variety Artists in its turf war over television with the American Federation of Musicians. 
SEP 8 1950  Tallulah Bankhead ends her year long,$1.0 Million lawsuit against Procter & Gamble over the shampoo jingle, “I’m Tallulah, The Tube of Prell,” and settles for $5,000. (See Tallulah’s Big Show.)
SEP 8 1953  FCC reports 253 television stations are on the air in the U.S. - with new ones going on at a rate of twelve per week.

SEP 9 1926   The National Broadcasting Company is incorporated in Delaware by owners RCA, (50%), General Electric, (30%), Westinghouse, (20%) and announces plans to establish a permanent national radio network.  First affiliates include company owned WEAF/New York City, WTAM/Cleveland and WRC/Washington, plus WWJ/Detroit, WTIC/Hartford, WDAF/Kansas City, WCSH/Portland, Maine, WJAR/Providence and KSD/St. Louis .
SEP 9 1933  Ed Wynn’s Amalgamated Broadcasting System network announces its charter stations: WBNX, New York City; WPEN, Philadelphia; WCBM, Baltimore; WOL, Washington; WDEL, Wilmington, and WTNJ, Trenton.
SEP 9 1935   WJSV/Washington, D.C.,  stays on the air all night to claim a scoop announcing the 5:10 a.m. death of Louisiana Senator Huey Long from an assassin’s bullet.
SEP 9 1935   NBC asks the New York City AFM local to rescind its ruling that every instrumentalist on Major Bowes’ Original Amateur Hour be paired with a stand-by union musician to be paid $18.  (See Major Bowes Original Money Machine.)
SEP 9 1938   The NAB tells members that it is working with radio manufacturers to answer complaints that distributors are ignoring small stations when setting the keys on new “automatic tuning” radios.
SEP 9 1939   WLS/Chicago sells its 800,000th ticket for The National Barn Dance, presented in two Saturday night performances since 1931 in the 1,400 seat Eighth Street Theater.  (See Saturday's All Time Top Ten.) 
SEP 9 1941   The NAB Executive Committee endorses ASCAP’s agreement with CBS and NBC that will end the networks' boycott of ASCAP music on September 28th after nearly ten months.   
SEP 9 1941   Citing coverage needs for national defense, WOAI/San Antonio files for an increase in power from 50,000 to 750,000 watts, joining a similar filing by WHAS/Louisville and a filing for 650,000 watts by Cincinnati’s WLW.  
SEP 9 1942   Amending its 1941 request for 650,000 watts, WLW/Cincinnati asks the FCC for a daytime power of 500,000 watts.
SEP 9 1942   War Department credits the radio industry’s two week voluntary spot cam-paign promoting the use of V-Mail to have increased usage of the new Photomicrofilm mail service to overseas servicemen and women by 100%.
SEP 9 1942   The University of Indiana Journalism School releases a study claiming that newscast comprehension peaks when read at 175 words per minute.
SEP 9 1944  Rudy Vallee, returned from a season’s absence for Coast Guard service, begins a two season run on NBC’s Drene Show.
SEP 9 1945  The prestigious Theater Guild On The Air, (aka The U.S. Steel Hour), begins its four season run on ABC with a weekly production/talent budget of $15,000. 
SEP 9 1945   The Shadow begins its 15th year on Mutual with 234 stations carrying the show for its regional sponsors, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, (Blue Coal), Grove Laboratories and Carey Salt.  (See The Shadow Nos.)
SEP 9 1946   The NAB goes on record against the FCC’s policy to consider local market economic conditions when granting new station licenses.
SEP 9 1946   Mutual reports 207 stations carry Fulton Lewis, Jr.’s daily news commentary for local (co-op) sponsors.  (See Mutual Led The Way.)
SEP 9 1946   Critics hail ABC’s adaptation of John Hersey’s Hiroshima told in half-hour segments over four nights with a cast of leading radio actors headed by Everett Sloane.
SEP 9 1949  CBS cancels its sustaining giveaway shows Winner Take All and Beat The Clock after repeated failures to interest prospective sponsors.
SEP 9 1949   Future television star Ernie Kovacs, 30, Special Events Director at WTTM/Trenton, New Jersey, scores a scoop by getting an interview with the mother of a kidnapped five year old girl then recording her reunion with the released victim.
SEP 9 1949   Lawyers for KWRZ/Flagstaff, Arizona, protest the FCC decision that the station cease operation based on a woman’s letter charging that its owners abandoned it and left it in her control without Commission approval.
SEP 9 1950   Another major market FM station folds as two year old WFBR-FM/Buffalo goes off the air.
SEP 9 1951   Rev. James McClain, formerly known as Jimmy McClain, star of NBC’s Dr. IQ from 1942 to 1946, begins a weekly series of sermons on the Texas State Network.  (See Dr. I.Q.)

SEP 10 1930 NBC is reported offering famed Polish composer/pianist/politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski $25,000 for one appearance on the network. 
SEP 10 1931 Kate Smith begins her year’s run of weeknight quarter hours on CBS for LaPalina cigars at $3,000 per week.
​SEP 10 1933  Jimmy Durante wins his fight with MGM to appear on radio and joins Ruth Etting as they substitutes for Eddie Cantor on NBC’s Chase & Sanborn Hour while Cantor finishes filming Roman Scandals.  (See Goodnight Mr. Durante...)
SEP 10 1934   NBC outlaws four dozen words used in patent medicine ads including belching, belly, bloated, diarrhea, gas, infection, nausea, pimple, pregnancy, scratching, sour and stomach.  
SEP 10 1934   The FTC reports that only five of 593 stations failed to respond to its request for commercial scripts in the hunt for illegal or misleading copy. 
SEP 10 1934   NBC withdraws tennis champion Ellsworth Vines from its Forest Hills tournament announcing team demanded by the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association because of a magazine article that Vines wrote critical of the group.
SEP 10 1935   Mutual  enters its second year of operation with $1.0 Million already on its books for the 1935-36 season.  (See Radio Nets' Grosses.)
SEP 10 1935   Immediately after Governor Edward Johnson of Colorado proclaims, "Traffic Safety Month” on KFEL/Denver, he is notified that his nephew was killed in an auto accident.
SEP 10 1936   NBC denies reports that it plans to form two separate companies to operate its Red and Blue networks.
SEP 10 1937  New York City newspapers The Times, The Herald-Tribune and The World-Telegram refuse advertising for the book “exposing” radio commercials,  Poisons, Potions & Profits, subtitled, An Antidote To Radio Advertising.
SEP 10 1941   The newly created U.S. Defense Supply Board deems commercial broadcasting an essential industry for  obtaining materials to maintain and repair facilities. 
SEP 10 1942  The volume and frequency of war news causes Mutual to introduce its format of newscasts every hour on the hour from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, delivered by 13 different newscasters and commentators.  (See Mutual Led The Way.)
SEP 10 1942  The Office of War Information orders all government agencies to channel their complete network or local radio program plans through the OWI’s Radio Bureau.
SEP 10 1942   After 220 broadcasts over eight years, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music is forced off the air by the Cincinnati local of the AFM.  (See Petrillo!)
SEP 10 1943   A quarrel with Fanny Brice over writer-director Phil Rapp’s on-air credits leads to Rapp leaving NBC’s successful Maxwell House Coffee Time a post he had held since its beginning as Good News in 1937.  (See Baby Snooks and ​Good News.)
SEP 10 1944   Allied troops invade Luxembourg and retake powerful Radio Luxembourg after four years and four months of Nazi control.
SEP 10 1944  CBS Sunday night stars of its programs Blondie, Baby Snooks and The Kate Smith Hour begin a series of promotional appearances in each other’s shows. 
SEP 10 1945   The Don Lee Broadcasting System purchases 160 acres atop Mount Wilson as the new transmitter site for its W6XAO(TV)/Los Angeles for a tower that will rise 5,800 feet above sea level with a power of 40,000 watts.
SEP 10 1947   Mutual announces that The Shadow will be made available to affiliates as a co-op program.  (See The Shadow Nos.)
SEP 10 1949   Eddie Cantor receives $50,000, to headine three shows a day at Chicago’s 19 day National Television and Electric Living Exposition. 
SEP 10 1950   RCA takes over sponsorship of comedy-quiz Take It Or Leave It and changes its name to The $64 Question to separate it from former sponsor Eversharp.
SEP 10 1951   NBC openly advertises 15 minute segments of The Big Show for $12,408 per week.  (See Tallulah‘s Big Show.) 
SEP 10 1952  ABC is reported following the lead of CBS and NBC by cutting its nighttime rates an average 25%, increasing its daytime rates by 5% and reducing affiliate compensation by 15%.
SEP 10 1953  FCC approves the sale of KOA-TV/Denver from NBC to Bob Hope, which includes a loan from the network to the comedian enabling the purchase.

SEP 11 1928   General Electric’s W2XB(TV)/Schenectady presents the first television drama, The Queen’s Messenger. 
SEP 11 1931 Former NBC Board Chairman and Westinghouse executive, Dr. Harry P. Davis, considered the guiding hand behind pioneer station KDKA/Pittsburgh, dies at 63 after a long illness. 
SEP 11 1933   Irna Phillips’ weekday serial Today’s Children, (fka Painted Dreams), begins the first four years of its two multi-network runs on the Blue Network.
SEP 11 1933  CBS separates news from its publicity department and appoints Paul White as its first News Director in charge of setting up the division. 
SEP 11 1936   Mutual adds 33 affiliates as far west as KWK/St. Louis to its basic network of WOR/Newark, WGN/Chicago, CKLW/Detroit and WAAB/Boston.
SEP 11 1937   CBS manages to obtain a speech by Madame Chaing Kai-shek broadcast from a temporary low power station in Hankow, the first voice transmission from China since the Japanese and destroyed its radio transmitters and cut all cables.
SEP 11 1939  The major networks enter into voluntary agreement with U.S. government on the cooperative handling of European war coverage. 
SEP 11 1939   NBC issues a new rate card with what agencies call a confusing basic network increase of 7.3% with WLW/Cincinnati and 8.03% without WLW.  (See NBC’s Chinese Menu.)
SEP 11 1941   FDR’s “Shoot On Sight” speech about the torpedo attack on the destroyer USS Greer near Iceland and its ensuing battle with a Nazi submarine registers a 67.4 Hooperating and a 72.5 CAB rating.  (See Radio's Rulers: Crossley, Hooper & Nielsen.)
SEP 11 1944   WIND moves its operations from Gary, Indiana, to Chicago.
SEP 11 1944   Eric Sagerquist, musical conductor for First Nighter since 1930, dies in Chicago at age 45.
SEP 11 1949   Grove Laboratories buys The Shadow on 450 Mutual stations while Blue Coal continues as the program’s sponsor on the East Coast leg of the network.  (See The Shadow Nos.)
SEP 11 1949   Jack McCoy takes over host duties from George Murphy on NBC’s Hollywood Calling but Jack Benny‘s first show of the season on CBS scores a 14.7 Hooperating compared to the giveaway show‘s 4.0.  (See Sunday At  Seven.) 
SEP 11 1949   Theater Guild On The Air, (aka The U.S. Steel Hour), leaves ABC after four years and begins its final four season run on NBC.  
SEP 11 1949   Eddie Cantor replaces Garry Moore as host of NBC’s Take It Or Leave It for one season.
SEP 11 1950   Muzak, Inc., proposes a nationwide subscription-funded “narrowcasting” FM network.
SEP 11 1950   Country singer Jimmy Wakely begins a half-hour weekday disc-Jockey/ interview show on 300 ABC stations.
SEP 11 1950   Mutual bans the sound effect of police and fire sirens on its programs at the request of the New York City Civil Defense Department which has reserved sirens for air raid alarms.
SEP 11 1951  Conservative news analyst John T. Flynn begins a weeknight quarter commentary on the Liberty Network.
SEP 11 1952   Jack Webb’s NBC Radio hit Dragnet debuts on NBC-TV.  (See Jack Webb’s Dragnet.)

SEP 12 1930 Thirteen women ranging from 18 to 84, get seated in a Springfield, Illinois, appliance store window competing to stay awake the longest for prizes while listening to the radio.  ​
SEP 12 1932   Bing Crosby turns down an offer from CBS to perform a sustaining show for $250 a week.
SEP 12 1936   Detroit priest Charles Coughlin cuts his weekly radio lectures to 30 minutes and switches to early Saturday evenings on 31 Mutual stations.  (See Father Coughlin.)
SEP 12 1938   All networks begin intensive coverage of the European crisis after carrying Adolph Hitler’s speech to the massive Nuremberg Nazi rally in which the German dictator demands a settlement with Czechoslovakia over the disputed Sudetenland.
SEP 12 1939   FCC threatens WMCA/New York City with loss of its license for violating The Communications Act of 1934 by intercepting, decoding and broadcasting German and British military messages.
SEP 12 1940   AFRA’s threatened strike against NBC, CBS and Mutual is averted when all parties agree to arbitration. 
SEP 12 1940   The International Association of Police Chiefs condemns radio crime dramas as detrimental to morals and asks its members not to cooperate or supply information to its producers.
SEP 12 1941  Mutual introduces Ballentine Beer’s Three Ring Time half-hour variety show starring Charles Laughton, Milton Berle, Shirley Ross and Bob Crosby’s orchestra on 82 stations.  It moves to Blue three months later.
SEP 12 1941  NBC suspends dance band remotes when the AFM demands that the network exclude the broadcasts from WSMB/New Orleans, deemed “unfair“ by the union. (See Big Band Remotes.) 
SEP 12 1943   F. Chase Taylor takes his Colonel Stoopnagle character and cast to Richmond, Virginia, for a special broadcast on WRVA and sells $400,000 in War Bonds to the audience.   
SEP 12 1943   Hollywood reporter Jimmie Fidler‘s caustic criticism of Warner Brothers‘ film This Is The Army on Blue prompts the studio to demand an apology and ban all of its actors from appearing on the network.
SEP 12 1944   NBC correspondent Wright Bryan is wounded and captured by German troops in France.  He was liberated from a prison camp in Poland in 1945.
SEP 12 1944   A Federal court dismisses the second suit by Warner Brothers Music against American Tobacco - $200,000 for “mishandling” its songs It Had To Be You and Time Waits For No One on Lucky Strike’s Your Hit Parade.
SEP 12 1945  FCC agrees to extend the Buffalo Broadcasting Company’s license by three months, giving it the chance to sell either WGR or WKBW, keep one of the stations, break its existing contracts and continue operating.
SEP 12 1945   FCC tells returning servicemen that it is unable to reserve FM allocations and urges them to submit applications without delay. 
SEP 12 1945  Frank Sinatra, until nine months earlier the star of Lucky Strike’s Your Hit Parade, begins a two season Wednesday night run on CBS with Songs By Sinatra for P. Lorillard’s Old Gold cigarettes.  (See Smoke Gets In Your Ears.)
SEP 12 1945   C.E. Hooper announces the formation of two new divisions providing in-depth listener research for the advertising and broadcasting industries.  (See Radio's Rulers: Crossley, Hooper & Nielsen.)
SEP 12 1947   The Continental FM Network produces its first commercial broadcast, Stromberg-Carlson’s Treasury of Music featuring the Rochester Symphony Orchestra for 27 affiliates.
SEP 12 1947   Annual revenues for transcribed program syndicator Fredric Ziv are reported at $10.4 Million.  (See Fred Ziv - King of Syndication.)
SEP 12 1948   Television version of Meet The Press, a Mutual radio feature since 1945, debuts on seven NBC-TV affiliates.
SEP 12 1949   Garry Moore begins a new 60-minute weekday afternoon variety show on CBS Radio for a one year run.
SEP 12 1949  Chicago’s once powerful  Hill-Blackett agency, (fka Blackett, Sample & Hummert, a major force in radio with 1940 billings over $12.1 Million), is absorbed by Grant Advertising.
SEP 12 1950   Ex-vaudevillian Lou Clayton, dies at 63 after a long bout with cancer.  His longtime partners, Jimmy Durante and Eddie Jackson, were at his bedside at his passing.
(See Goodnight, Mr. Durante...)
SEP 12 1951   General Foods signs Roy Rogers & Dale Evans to a three year exclusive radio and television contract for programs on NBC.
SEP 12 1951   FCC votes 3-2, with two abstentions, to confirm its decision to renew Hearst Radio’s license for WBAL/Baltimore and end the five year challenge for the facility by columnists Drew Pearson and Robert Allen.
SEP 12 1951  Two weeks of attacks by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union damage the attendance of alcohol-laced Hadacol’s Cavalcade of Stars in Omaha starring Jack Dempsey, Carmen Miranda, Eddie (Rochester) Anderson and Dick Haymes.  The three-hour show draws only 2,000 of an expected 4,400,  (See Hadacol.)
SEP 12 1953  NBC’s National Home & Farm Hour, the network’s first program to originate from Chicago in 1928, celebrates it’s 25th anniversary on the air.
SEP 12 1953   Veteran character actor Lewis Stone, known as patriarch Judge Hardy of The Hardy Family film and radio series, dies of a heart attack at his Hollywood home at the age of 73. 

SEP 13 1931   Eddie Cantor, 39, debuts on NBC’s Chase & Sanborn Hour and becomes Network Radios first “superstar.”  His original seven week contract is extended to 14 weeks at $4,000 per show.
SEP 13 1932   Bandleader Ben Bernie, 41, begins his highly rated NBC series for Pabst Beer and an eleven year Network Radio career.  (See Tuesday’s All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 13 1937  Irna Phillips’ The Road of Life begins its 17 season run on NBC.  The week-day serial is heard concurrently  on CBS for six years before moving to CBS exclusively in 1954 for its final five seasons.   (See Soft Soap & Hard Sell.)
SEP 13 1937  Off the air for a year, Gertrude Berg’s serial, The Goldbergs, returns to NBC’s weekday schedule.
SEP 13 1937   Chicago stations assist the city’s schools by broadcasting classes when a polio epidemic closes the schools for two weeks. 
SEP 13 1938   Network newsrooms go on 24-hour duty for complete coverage of the European crisis.
SEP 13 1939   FCC rescinds its requirement that stations must log the time and title of every phonograph record played. 
SEP 13 1940   Dave Garroway, 27, a KDKA/Pittsburgh announcer for two years, joins the staff of NBC’s WMAQ/Chicago.
SEP 13 1940   Earle C. Anthony, whose KFI/Los Angeles was the first station to sign an ASCAP contract in 1923, signs with BMI to play its music, (and public domain music), exclusively on KFI and co-owned KECA beginning in November.
SEP 13 1940   Broadcast Music Inc. gets control of 4,000 Latin American songs previously controlled by ASCAP.
SEP 13 1941  Brown & Williamson Tobacco assembles a split network of 14 NBC and Blue stations for the 30 minute Renfro Valley Barn Dance originating from a barn in Renfro Valley, Kentucky.
SEP 13 1942   Radio Readers Digest opens five year series of magazine based stories on CBS.
SEP 13 1943   U.S. Housing Commissioner Nathan Straus, Jr., buys WMCA/New York City from Edward Noble for $1.25 Million, clearing the path for Noble to buy the Blue Network and its New York City flagship, WJZ. 
SEP 13 1943   Lady Esther Cosmetics fires its ad agency Pedlar & Ryan after five years despite the huge success of its Screen Guild Players program on CBS.  (See Acts of Charity and Monday’s All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 13 1944   Jimmy Durante, Gene Kelly. Olivia DeHaviland and George Coulouris headline the special CBS program Get Out The Vote, to encourage registrations for the coming Presidential election.
SEP 13 1945   An unauthorized nationwide engineers strike at all stations owned by NBC and ABC ends after 26½ hours. 
SEP 13 1946   CBS successfully demonstrates its color television system in ultra-high frequencies to the FCC and press.
SEP 13 1946   George Washington Hill, President of American Tobacco and one of radio’s foremost advertisers, dies of a heart attack while vacationing in Canada at age 61. (See The Lucky Strike Sweepstakes.)
SEP 13 1947   The Philadelphia Inquirer’s WFIL-TV goes on the air with the Philadelphia Eagles vs. New York Giants football game. 
SEP 13 1947   RCA demonstrates its new kinescope recording system by showing film of the Mineola, Long Island Fair on WNBT(TV)/New York City only 20 minutes after it was shot.
SEP 13 1947   RCA’s David Sarnoff ridicules Zenith’s Phonevision, saying, “…it's wholly impractical to expect people to pay to receive television programs.” 
SEP 13 1949   NBC celebrates Jim & Marian Jordan’s 15th anniversary as Fibber McGee & Mollly with a 60-minute all-star program hosted by Bob  Hope.  (See Fibber McGee Minus Molly.) 
SEP 13 1949   A U.S. District Court in Chicago grants a temporary Federal injunction against the FCC’s “anti-giveaway” ruling which banned such shows on local  and network stations.  (See Stop The Music!)
SEP 13 1949   The O’Neills, a multi-network daytime serial for nine years, is adapted for television and four month run  on DuMont.
SEP 13 1950   Bristol-Myers cancels Break The Bank on NBC, but continues the video version of the show on NBC-TV.
SEP 13 1950   ABC-TV debuts Don McNeill’s TV Club from Chicago starring the longtime Breakfast Club host.
SEP 13 1951   The Liberty Broadcasting System network signs a three year, $375,000 contract for exclusive radio rights to Chicago White Sox games.

SEP 14 1931 Television is demonstrated twelve hours daily on six receiver sets at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart during the International Patent Exposition with signals from Western Television Corporation’s W9XAO and W9XAP.
SEP 14 1934  WAZL/Hazleton, Pennsylvania becomes the only outlet for news in the area when 20,000 union members in the area go on a general strike in sympathy to the striking United Textile Workers.
SEP 14 1935   Paramount Pictures takes over NBC’s Your Hit Parade for the Hollywood premiere of its Big Broadcast of 1936 hosted by Jack Oakie with Joe Penner, Jack Haley, Ethel Merman, Charlie Ruggles and Bonnie Baker.  (See Radio Goes To The Movies.)
SEP 14 1936   Broadway talent agents tell Variety that Major Edward Bowes is paying them a $5 bounty for every “amateur” they produce who can qualify for his Original Amateur Hour with “…a good story to tell about themselves.”  (See Major Bowes Original Money Machine and Thursday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 14 1936   Lillian Lauferty’s soap opera Big Sister begins its 16 season run on CBS. (See Soft Soap & Hard Sell.)
SEP 14 1936 Frank & Anne Hummert’s weekday serial John’s Other Wife begins a six year multi-network run on NBC.
SEP 14 1936  WWJ/Detroit dedicates its new four story headquarters connected by tunnel to the co-owned Detroit News building.
SEP 14 1936   Lux Radio Theater pays tribute to MGM’s Vice President of Production, Irving Thalberg, who died that morning from pneumonia at age 37.  (See Lux...Presents Hollywood! and Monday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 14 1938  FCC examiners approve General Electric’s application to build experimental television transmitters in Schenectady and Albany, New York, and Bridgeport, Connecticut.
SEP 14 1939   WMCA/New York City flatly denies FCC charges that it intercepted then decoded and broadcast secret German and British military messages as skeptics ask what kind of codes are so easy that a radio station can break them.   
SEP 14 1942   After three seasons on CBS, five on NBC and one on Mutual, General Mills moves its kids’ serial Jack Armstrong to Blue where it remains for the next nine seasons.
(See Serials, Cereals & Premiums.)
SEP 14 1942   Blue newsman Morgan Beatty replaces replaces John W. Vandercook on NBC’s News of The World.  (See Multiple Runs All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 14 1942  FCC discontinues issuing new, renewed or modified amateur (ham) radio licenses, citing administrative problems due to the war. 
SEP 14 1944  New York City stations WEAF, WHN, WINS, WOR and WOV, lose power for up to five hours as a Category Two hurricane strikes the East Coast causing $25.0 Million in property damage. 
SEP 14 1944  The same hurricane destroys the towers of WPRO/Providence, Rhode Island, WNBH/New Bedford, Massachusetts and WSAP/Portsmouth, Virginia.
SEP 14 1945  FCC concludes a whirlwind week of granting 53 licenses in the new 88.1 to 107.9 megacycle band to existing and new FM stations.
SEP 14 1945   Kate Smith enjoys a 20% ratings gain with a return to the CBS Friday night schedule and a new all-music format determined by Billboard’s popularity charts. (See Kate’s Great Song and Friday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 14 1947   NBC announces a ban on all radio crime shows before 9:30 p.m. 
SEP 14 1947   NBC reveals to its affiliates’ that the network’s total investment in television since its first involvement amounts to $22.0 Million.
SEP 14 1947   Garry Moore takes over from Phil Baker as host of NBC’s Take It Or Leave It.  (See Sunday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 14 1948   Lever Brothers cancels Pepsodent Toothpaste’s ten year association with Bob Hope and installs Swan Soap as Hope’s sponsor for two seasons.
SEP 14 1949  CBS joins NBC and announces that it doesn’t need or want any more radio network affiliates.
SEP 14 1951  Western anthology Death Valley Days completes its 21st and final season spanning three networks.
SEP 14 1951   Composer Meredith Wilson’s Three Chimes In Silver is adopted as the official song for NBC’s 25th anniversary celebration.  (See Meredith Willson.) 
SEP 14 1952  NBC cancels Tales of The Texas Rangers after a two year run.
SEP 14 1953   Sportscaster Bill Stern leaves NBC after 16 years to join ABC.  (See Bill Stern.)
SEP 14 1953  WOR/New York City spends an estimated $1.0 Million for all the major transcribed shows produced by Fredrick Ziv and Harry Goodman to present over five hours of syndicated programming per day.  (See Fred Ziv - King of Syndication.)
SEP 14 1953   Drug manufacturer Plough, Inc., buys WJJD/Chicago from Marshall Field for $900,000. 

SEP 15 1930  NBC moves into its new $900,000 Midwest headquarters in Chicago’s huge Merchandise Mart.
SEP 15 1932   CBS lifts its ban against quoting prices in commercials.
SEP 15 1933  Ed Wynn and his partners establish WBNX/New York City as the flagship of their new Amalgamated Broadcasting System linking it with stations in Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston and Washington.
SEP 15 1933  WSM/Nashville, WCKY/Covington-Cincinnati and WHAS/Louisville form the short lived Center of Population Network.  
SEP 15 1934  The Gibson Family, an original musical comedy, debuts on NBC for its very expensive 39 week run, finishing 36th in the annual rankings. (See The 1934-35 Season.)
SEP 15 1936  RCA files denials with the New York Supreme Court to Philco’s charges of industrial  espionage.
SEP 15 1938   The 23 station Texas State Network,  affiliated with Mutual, opens with a celebratory broadcast starring Bob Hope and Gene Autry
SEP 15 1939 The National Association of Broadcasters, (NAB), establishes a fund of $1.5 Million, to form Broadcast Music Inc., (BMI), as a music licensing alternative to ASCAP. 
SEP 15 1939   AFM President Joe Weber reinstitutes a requirement that all big band remotes carry a closing credit that the broadcasts are, “…through the courtesy of the American Federation of Musicians.”  (See Big Band Remotes.)
SEP 15 1939   A second broadcasting trade association, the National Independent Broadcasters, is formed by stations not owned or operated by a network. 
SEP 15 1939   CBS raises its network rates by an average 7.5%.  (See CBS Rates - Go Figure!)
SEP 15 1939  CBS, Mutual and NBC carry Colonel  Charles Lindbergh’s address, America And The European War, from Washington at 10:45 p.m. 
SEP 15 1941 WLW/Cincinnati feeds its coverage of the massive two-week U.S. Army war games in Louisiana to an 18 station independent network in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia.
SEP 15 1941  Hollywood reporter Jimmie Fidler complains to a U.S. Senate committee investigating unfairness and bias in radio that CBS had censored his broadcasts.
SEP 15 1941  Bob Hope appears as host of the American Legion National Convention in Milwaukee.  (See Hope From Home.)
SEP 15 1941 Lady Esther Cosmetics drops its long running Monday night Lady Esther Serenade on CBS for Orson Welles’ “literary vaudeville” series that lasts only four months when Freddy Martin’s orchestra resumes the Serenade.
SEP 15 1942  Don McNeill and his Chicago based Breakfast Club cast begin a week of remote broadcasts on Blue from Montreal, Ottawa, Providence, New Haven and Pittsburgh.
SEP 15 1942   Major League Baseball votes to donate Gillette’s $100,000 paid for World Series broadcast rights to the USO.
SEP 15 1943  Fitch Shampoo opens a second edition of its successful Sunday evening NBC Fitch Bandwagon on Blue’s Wednesday night schedule with Freddy Martin’s orchestra. 
SEP 15 1944   Mutual bans all Sunday afternoon and evening religious programs and limits those remaining to 30 minutes.
SEP 15 1944  Armed Forces Radio begins operations from the forward areas of New Guinea. 
SEP 15 1944  After two seasons on Blue, Bristol-Myers moves Duffy’s Tavern to NBC where it will remain for the next eight years. (See Duffy Ain’t Here.)
SEP 15 1945  The U.S. drops the year round War Time, (aka Daylight Saving Time), and orders all clocks back one hour to Standard Time.
SEP 15 1945  New York Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine resigns after 42 years on the force to become the narrator of ABC’s Gangbusters.  (See Saturday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 15 1945 Miami stations provide live network coverage of the Category Four hurricane hitting south Florida with sustained winds of 165 mph.
SEP 15 1946  Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch on CBS goes on tour for six weeks as the cowboy star makes personal appearances in Chicago, New York and Boston.  (See Saturday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 15 1947  Over 3500 delegates gather at the NAB convention in Atlantic City.
SEP 15 1947 The NAB adopts its Standard Code of Practices governing programming and commercial activities for its radio station members effective February 1, 1948. 
SEP 15 1948  AFM President James Petrillo offers to negotiate an end to the union’s eight month recording ban to avoid threatened court action. (See Petrillo!)
SEP 15 1948  FCC refuses to reconsider using 44 to 50 megacycles for FM broadcasting.
SEP 15 1948  WHN/New York City, owned by Lowes, Inc., adopts the call sign WMGM with a marathon show from Hollywood starring Gene Kelly, George Murphy, Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Jane Powell and dozens of other film personalities plus the MGM studio orchestra and chorus.  (See Radio Goes To The Movies.)
SEP 15 1948   The country’s only television stations with three network affiliations are identified as WNAC-TV/Boston, (ABC, CBS & DuMont), and WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee, (ABC,CBS & NBC).
SEP 15 1949  Noted actor-director and conservative commentator Robert Montgomery, 45, replaces Drew Pearson on ABC in Lee Hats’ 15-minute weekly news commentary.
SEP 15 1949  The weekly half-hour television adaptation of The Lone Ranger begins its five season, 221 episode run on ABC-TV for General Mills.  (See The Lone Ranger.)
SEP 15 1950  Art Linkletter in Los Angeles and Ben Alexander in San Francisco co-host a television variety show seen on the CBS and NBC stations in both cities dedicating the 350 mile microwave link between the two.  
SEP 15 1951  NBC Sports Director Bill Stern signs a new contract with the radio and television network that guarantees him a minimum of $500,000 over three years and frees him of his administrative duties.  (See Bill Stern.)
SEP 15 1951  The ILGWU sells its money-losing KFMV-FM/Los Angeles to KFWB part-owner Harry Maizlish for an undisclosed price, estimated by the press to be, “…pennies on the dollar.” 
SEP 15 1952  C.E. Hooper announces the October launch of its television ratings service in 40 of the 63 cities with stations.  (See Radio's Rulers: Crossley, Hooper & Nielsen.)
SEP 15 1953 Superior Court allows Arthur Kurlan, owner of broadcast rights to My Sister Eileen, who sued CBS and others for $150,000 in 1957 for its sitcom, My Friend Irma, to increase his suit to $3.0 Million in plagiarism damages.  CBS settles the suit for $75,000. (See My Friend Irma and Monday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 15 1953 Popular singer Jo Stafford, 35, signs a four-year contract worth $1.0 Million with CBS-TV. 
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SEP 16 1932   NBC follows CBS and allows price advertising in commercials, "...when delivered in good taste.”
SEP 16 1934   Hollywood reporter Jimmie Fidler begins his 16 year multi-network career.
SEP 16 1935   WPTF/Raleigh, North Carolina, and its insurance company sue the manufacturer of the station’s steel transmitter tower that collapsed during a June storm for $5,140 in alleged damages.
SEP 16 1937  FCC makes public the irregularities of operation it cited to remove Brooklyn stations WARD and WLTH from the air and awarding their shares of 1400 k.c. to WBBC and WVFW.
SEP 16 1938  CBS-owned KNX/Los Angeles elevates to 50,000 watts both day and night.  Its new transmitter loses power for 30 minutes three nights later during the middle of its Monday night hit, Lux Radio Theater.
SEP 16 1940   The NAB Code committee warns stations carrying Father Charles Coughlin’s weekly speeches to carefully monitor their content and be aware that the industry group may ban them when the political season ends. (See Father Coughlin.)
SEP 16 1940  ASCAP announces that it has signed new 120 independent stations with no network affiliation. 
SEP 16 1940   Blue begins a Monday through Saturday night series of five minute newscasts with John B. Kennedy at 9:30 p.m. 
SEP 16 1940  The Don Lee Network’s W6XAO(TV)/Los Angeles leaves the air for 90 days as it installs its new transmitter atop Mount Wilson overlooking Hollywood.
SEP 16 1941   Rural comic  Bob Burns starts his six year multi-network run as The Arkansas Traveler after five seasons as the comic sidekick to Bing Crosby on Kraft Music Hall.  (See Bob Burns.)
SEP 16 1941   FCC approves commercial television station construction permits for Philco’s WPTZ(TV)/Philadelphia, Earle C. Anthony’s KFI-TV/Los Angeles and the Milwaukee Journal’s WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee. 
SEP 16 1942   Haven MacQuarrie, host of NBC’s Noah Webster Says, sues MGM for $500,000, claiming that its movie, Married Bachelor, humiliated him and caused the cancellation of his former program, The Marriage Club.  
SEP 16 1945  The short lived Associated Broadcasting System Network based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, begins operations without its advertised stations in New York City and Chicago.  
SEP 16 1945   Norman Corwin produces the 90 minute CBS promotional program, Stars In The Afternoon, from New York’s Carnegie Hall hosted by The Aldrich Family cast and featuring CBS East Coast stars Phil Baker, Bob Hawk, Jack Smith, Helen Hayes, Edward R. Murrow, Patrice Munsel and many others plus a 75 piece orchestra to promote its new season of programs. 
SEP 16 1945  Noted Irish tenor and early radio star John McCormack dies at home in Ireland at 61.
SEP 16 1946  A proposed radio network, the North American Broadcasting Service, is incorporated in Las Vegas with $100,000 in capitalization and its founders projecting three thousand, (3,000), affiliates for 16 hours of daily programming.  . 
SEP 16 1946  CBS increases its inventory of co-op programs, offering its affiliates three weekday news commentaries, a nightly Red Barber sports report, a five-minute Story of The Day feature and the Tuesday and Friday editions of House Party with Art Linkletter.  (See A John Guedel Production.) 
SEP 16 1947  ABC, CBS, Mutual and NBC extend their BMI contracts 13 years to 1960.
SEP 16 1947 The opening session of the United Nations General Assembly is covered by the four radio networks and New York City’s WNBT(TV) and WCBS-TV.
SEP 16 1949  ABC Television’s West Coast anchor, KECA-TV, begins operations which makes Los Angeles the only city with its full complement of seven television stations.
SEP 16 1949  Singer Kenny Baker wins a $20,000 settlement from his William Morris talent agency and the Ziv syndication firm because he wasn’t informed that his transcribed shows would be repeated by stations buying it.  (See Fred Ziv - King of Syndication.)
SEP 16 1949   FBI Assistant Director Louis Nichols says the Bureau will not withdraw its sanction of ABC’s This Is Your FBI, despite an American Bar Association charge that the program, “…educates youth to the methods of crime.”  (See FBI vs. FBI.)
SEP 16 1949  American Tobacco’s Pall Mall cigarettes brings a video version of its radio hit The Big Story to NBC-TV.  (See Wednesday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 16 1950   ABC introduces three new, short-lived 30-minute audience participation shows Saturday nights from 8:00 to 9:30: Shoot The Moon with host Bud Collyer, Marry Go Round emceed by Jimmy Blaine and Gypsy Rose Lee’s What Makes You Tick?  
SEP 16 1950   The Sun Oil Company sponsors the first of 15 National Football League season games on ABC-TV culminating with the NFL Championship Game for a total cost of $500,000.
SEP 16 1951 The second season opening broadcast of NBC’s Big Show starring Tallulah Bankhead is recorded at London’s Palladium.  The show moves to Paris the next week.  The network’s two week production cost is $75,000.  (See Tallulah’s Big Show.)
SEP 16 1952 Mutual cancels its mystery anthology The Mysterious Traveler after a sporadic nine year run.
SEP 16 1952  After three years on CBS, Red Skelton returns to NBC for his final Network Radio season with a show that mixes old sketches taped from previous broadcasts with newly recorded monologues of topical material.. 
SEP 16 1952  The Standard Transcription Service reports that  200 stations have con-verted leases of its library to outright purchases in six weeks.  (See “By Transcription…”)
SEP 16 1953  Twelve hundred radio stations participate in the first nationwide test of the Conelrad defense system.
SEP 16 1953  An American Airlines plane approaching the Albany, New York, airport in fog clips the two 365 foot towers of WPTR in suburban Colonie and crashes, killing all 28 persons aboard.

SEP 17 1934  Ohio Senator Clarence Dill addresses the NAB convention and calls The Press-Radio Bureau, “…a rank failure.”  (See The Press Radio Bureau.)
SEP17 1934  WSGN/Birmingham causes a radio sensation with nightly reenactments of a local murder trial from taken from transcripts recorded by stenographers hired by the station.
SEP 17 1936  After six years of 15 minute Multiple Run programs singer Kate Smith, 29, begins a nine season series of hour long variety shows on CBS with The A&P Bandwagon opposite Rudy Vallee on NBC.  (See Kate’s Great Song and Friday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 17 1936   WOR/Newark and WGN/Chicago buy back WLW/Cincinnati’s ownership shares in Mutual.
SEP 17 1936  Major Bowes takes his top rated Original Amateur Hour to CBS four days after the show’s final broadcast on NBC.  (See Major Bowes’ Original Money Machine  and Network Jumpers.)
SEP 17 1940  The CBS News Bureau in London moves its operations into Edward R. Murrow’s apartment after a Nazi bomb destroys its office. 
SEP 17 1941  FCC resumes hearings questioning newspaper ownership of broadcast properties.
SEP 17 1942 OWI chief Elmer Davis tells the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee that the musicians’ union lengthy ban on recording, “…threatens the existence of many stations.”
SEP 17 1944   Fanny Brice debuts Toasties Time on the CBS Sunday schedule for two season run.  (See Baby Snooks.) 
SEP 17 1944  General Foods premieres Kate Smith in an ill fated hour on CBS against NBC’s Jack Benny and Fitch Bandwagon. (See The 1944-45 Season and Busted In Rank.)
SEP 17 1945   The Baby Snooks Show begins its season with a three week hunt for the missing tot because illness prevents Fanny Brice from appearing until the October 7th broadcast on CBS.  (See Baby Snooks.)
SEP 17 1945  Elmer Davis resigns as head of the OWI to which President Truman responds, “You deserve the thanks of the nation for a job well done.”
SEP 17 1946  Columnist and Blue Network commentator Drew Pearson and associate Robert Allen apply to the FCC for the license of Hearst Radio’s WBAL/Baltimore, cited by the Commission for over-commercialization.
SEP 17 1947   Addressing a National Association of Broadcasters meeting, FM inventor Edwin Armstrong predicts that the FM audience will surpass AM radio's, “…within three or four years.” 
SEP 17 1947  Radio stations  in the South assume emergency status as a Category Two hurricane hits the Fort Lauderdale-Miami area, then moves across Florda into the Gulf of Mexico and strikes Louisiana.
SEP 17 1947  CBS previews a new weekly quarter hour newscast featuring the use of portable tape recorders.
SEP 17 1947  NBC announces the printing of 1.25 million 16-page full color comic books for distribution in schools that trace the development of a new network program.
SEP 17 1948  Edward R. Murrow originates his nightly CBS newscast from Berlin for a week.
SEP 17 1948    CBS-TV belatedly starts the fourth television network by adding WJBK-TV/Detroit and WAGA-TV/Atlanta, (both still under construction), to WCBS-TV/New York, WCAU-TV/Philadelphia and KTTV(TV)/Los Angeles.
SEP 17 1948   ABC-owned WENR-TV/Chicago begins operations with a five hour variety show including a concert by Paul Whiteman’s orchestra. 
SEP 17 1948   KLAC-TV/Los Angeles debuts with the USC vs. Utah football game using borrowed equipment after its new $12,000 mobile truck was destroyed the night before when struck by a freight  train.
SEP 17 1949  Baseball’s Joe DiMaggio begins his 26 week run on CBS with a Saturday morning half hour show directed to young listeners.
SEP 17 1950   The Mason, Ohio, Voice of America shortwave tower is wrecked by a 3:00 a.m. explosion blamed on saboteurs.
SEP 17 1950   Hal Peary debuts as Honest Harold on CBS - the sitcom is cancelled after one season.  (See The Great Gildersleeve(s))
SEP 17 1950   Wildroot Cream Oil cancels NBC’s Adventures of Sam Spade after four seasons but the network continues the program as sustaining with Howard Duff replaced as its star when the booklet Red Channels reports his suspected ties to Communists.  (See The Curse of Dashiell Hammett.)
SEP 17 1951  Kate Smith moves her noontime show from Mutual to NBC for a final year.
SEP 17 1951  Hadacol’s new owners cut the touring Caravan of Stars short in Dallas, stranding Carmen Miranda, Hank Williams, Minnie Pearl, Candy Candido, plus supporting acts,  musicians and staff, and leaving $100,000 in unpaid bills and salaries.  (See Hadacol.)
SEP 17 1953  RCA-NBC Board Chairman David Sarnoff addresses his network’s affiliates calling for the “rehabilitation” of Network Radio and blaming its problems on, “Ratings, raiding and rebates.” 
SEP 17 1953  NBC announces 28 new Network Radio Programs at reported cost of $5.0 Million for the 1953-54 season.  

SEP 18 1927 CBS predecessor, The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System, debuts with 16 affiliates in eleven states:  WOR/New York City, WMAQ/Chicago, WGHP/Detroit, WCAU/Philadelphia, WJAS/Pittsburgh, KMOX/St. Louis, WNAC/Boston, WMAK/Buffalo,  WEAN/Providence, WKRC/Cincinnati, KOIL/Omaha,  WOWO/Ft. Wayne, WADC/Akron, WCAO/Baltimore, WFBL/Syracuse and WAIU/Columbus.  It's first program is a concert by Howard Barlow's orchestra,
SEP 18 1932   An automatic electric device producing chime-like tones is introduced to NBC system cues replacing hand struck, (railroad dining car), chimes.
SEP 18 1933   NBC officially designates WMAQ as the Chicago affiliate to its Red network and WENR/WLS as its Blue network stations with KYW as the alternate for both.  
SEP 18 1935   Variety labels Major Ed Bowes the top earner in show business at $19,000 a week - $5,000 from his Original Amateur Hour, $12,500 from his touring vaudeville units, $1,000 from his film shorts and $500 for managing New York City’s Capitol Theater.  (See Major Bowes’ Original Money Machine.)
SEP 18 1936 Raymond Gram Swing begins his twelve year radio career at WOR/Newark. 
SEP 18 1939   TheTom Mix Straight Shooters becomes the first coast-to-coast kids’ weekday serial when sponsor Ralston Purina adds Blue’s Pacific Network to its coverage which requires three live performances daily.  (See Serials, Cereals & Premiums.)
SEP 18 1939   CBS begins its long running series of nightly five-minute prime time newscasts at 8:55 p.m.   
SEP 18 1941   Sun spots disrupt shortwave transmissions ruining the inaugural broadcast of NBC’s Mexican network.
SEP 18 1942   FCC Chairman James Fly warns the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee that 167 stations with low net revenues are in jeopardy if the musicians union strike against recordings and transcriptions continues.
SEP 18 1942  WHN/New York City afternoon disc jockey Dick Gilbert is credited with helping save the life of a hospital patient by  broadcasting an urgent appeal for volunteers with rare Type B blood to which 20 persons responded. 
SEP 18 1944   The U.S. Army reports expediting the construction of a 50,000 watt shortwave station on Guam to reach listeners in Japan, China and India.
SEP 18 1944   DuPont Chemicals’ patriotic anthology series on NBC, Cavalcade of America, begins its season with a roster of major stars including Clark Gable, Bob Hope,  Rosalind Russell, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson. (See The Cavalcade of America.)
SEP 18 1946   Commercials in the new Dinah Shore Show on CBS are presented as remote cut-in’s from a different Ford assembly plant each Wednesday night.  
SEP 18 1946  The Joe Louis vs. Tami Mauriello Heavyweight Championship fight registers a 33.0 Hooperating for ABC.  (See Radio's Rulers: Crossley, Hooper & Nielsen.)
SEP 18 1946   Late night dance band remotes from major New York City and Chicago hotels resume when the AFM strike over wages ends after two weeks.  (See Big Band Remotes.)
SEP 18 1947  With his ban on FM programs, AFM James Petrillo orders the Rochester Symphony to stop its broadcasts on the new Continental FM Network which pays the 40 orchestra members full AM network scale for their work. (See Petrillo!)
SEP 18 1949  Eversharp presents the CBS broadcast of Take It Or Leave It with Eddie Cantor from the national druggists’ convention at New York City’s Statler Hotel. 
SEP 18 1949   MGM film star and Network Radio comedian Frank Morgan, 58, dies of natural causes in his Beverly Hills home.  (See Frank Morgan and Good News.)
SEP 18 1950  Due to lack of sponsor interest CBS terminates its contract with Lum & Abner, (Chet Lauck & Norris Goff), and buys out the remaining three years of the team’s six year contract with the network.  
SEP 18 1950   Singer Jo Stafford, star of Club 15 and The Carnation Contented Hour on CBS, is signed by The Voice of America for a series of shows directed to the youth of Communist countries.
SEP 18 1950   Sterling Drug begins a five-minute newscast with John B. Kennedy on the full ABC network Monday through Thursday nights at 10:30 p.m., (Friday already taken up by Gillette fight broadcasts).  
SEP 18 1952   Ted Mack’s radio revival of The Original Amateur Hour is cancelled by ABC after a four year run.
SEP 18 1953 The FTC softens its five year ban on use of the word “free” in advertising when, “…the word is used honestly and not as a device for deceiving the public.”
SEP 18 1953  Ziv Television reports that its anti-Communist series, I Led Three Lives, is sold in 94 markets - 15 more than the 79 in which the networks’ most popular shows, I Love Lucy and You Bet Your Life, are seen.  (See Fred Ziv - King of Syndication.)

SEP 19 1927 The United Independent Broadcasters Network, (aka UIB), begins operations from WOR/Newark as The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System with 16 affiliates.
SEP 19 1932  Frank & Anne Hummert’s weekday serial Just Plain Bill starring Arthur Hughes begins its 23 year sporadic multi-year run on CBS. (See Soft Soap & Hard Sell.)
SEP 19 1932   Singing comedians Gene (Carroll) & Glenn (Rowell) return to WTAM/ Cleveland sponsored by Standard Oil, reportedly in response to petitions signed by a reported 178,000 of their fans.
SEP 19 1932   With NBC refusing to approach Morton Downey or Bing Crosby who both left CBS over salaries, speculation mounts that the two networks have entered into an “anti-raid” pact.
SEP 19 1934  Burns & Allen’s new Wednesday night CBS series for General Cigar Corp., The Adventures of Gracie, carries a $500 weekly raise for the team to $2,750 a week for 39 weeks.  (See Wednesday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 19 1935  Radio reports the arrest of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for Lindbergh baby kidnapping/murder, setting off non-stop coverage of the “Trial of The Century.”
SEP 19 1935  Squibb begins its short-lived sponsorship of To Arms For Peace, on CBS’s Thursday night schedule at 9:30 p.m. featuring classical music and pacifist messages from literary notables.  
SEP 19 1940  For reasons that the owner isn’t financially qualified, FCC votes to terminate the license of 100 watt WBAX/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, “…with the least possible delay.”
SEP 19 1941   Kay Kyser band singer Ginny Simms debuts on CBS with a weekly five minute show on Fridays at 9:55 p.m.  (See Kay Kyser.)
SEP 19 1944   FCC duopoly rule forces Crosley Broadcasting, owner of WLW/Cincinnati to sell WSAI/Cincinnati to Chicago financier and station owner Marshall Field for $550,000.
SEP 19 1945   FCC adopts standards governing FM channel allocations and station operations.
SEP 19 1945   His request for a year off denied, Kay Kyser returns to NBC’s College of Musical Knowledge, but his wife and the band’s vocalist for two years, Georgia Carroll, does retire.  (See Kay Kyser and Wednesday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 19 1946   Longtime weekday comedy favorite Vic & Sade leaves the air after a 14 year multi-network run.  (See Vic & Sade.)
SEP 19 1946   FCC approves NBC’s application to change the call-sign of its WEAF/New York City to WNBC on November 1st - the same day CBS-owned WABC changes to WCBS.
SEP 19 1946 When recording his first  Philco Radio Time show for ABC broadcast on October 16th, Bing Crosby loses the tempo to Blue Skies, stops the show and re-records the song perfectly.  (See Wednesday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 19 1947  Hurricane force winds take down phone lines in Louisiana but WSMB/New Orleans makes contact with KPRC/Houston via teletype with eye witness reports of the storm that are relayed to NBC News. 
SEP 19 1948   The U.S. House Select Committee investigating the FCC charges the Commission with, “…a dangerous and unwarranted policy of ‘thought policing’ that has no basis in the law.” 
SEP 19 1949 Mutual drops its format of 15-minute afternoon serials for kids replaces them with 30-minute, self-contained rotating episodes of  Captain Midnight, Tom Mix, Straight Arrow and The B-Bar-B Ranch.  (See Serials, Cereals & Premiums.)
SEP 19 1949   Horace Heidt and a cast of 60 performers begin their three-month, cross-country Parade of Philip Morris Stars - incorporating remote broadcasts of Heidt’s Sunday night Youth Opportunity Program on CBS.
SEP 19 1949   FCC loses a second round against its giveaway show ban when a U.S. District Court grants an injunction requested by ABC, CBS and NBC until the legality the ban iis upheld by a three man court. (See Stop The Music!)
SEP 19 1950  America’s Town Meeting on ABC begins a six week tour of U.S. Air Force bases on the West Coast and Alaska.
SEP 19 1951   WBZ/Boston celebrates its 30th anniversary.
SEP 19 1951   Mutual and MGM sign a production alliance calling for the movie studio to provide six hours of “star quality” programs for the network’s nighttime schedule per week.
(See Radio Goes To The Movies.)
SEP 19 1952   Bob Hope is elected to a one year term as President of the American Guild of Variety Artists union.  (See Hope From Home.)

SEP 20 1920  Symphony artist manager Arthur Judson and partners incorporate as The Judson Radio Program Corporation, intended to create a second national radio network.
SEP 20 1930  WLW/Cincinnati refuses to pay Paul Whiteman the $30,000 he demands to broadcast performances by his band at local hotel for a month.
SEP 20 1935   MGM releases Broadway Melody of 1936, the first feature film in which Jack Benny receives top billing.  (See Radio Goes To The Movies.)
SEP 20 1935  Paramount Pictures capitalizes on Network Radio’s popularity with The Big Broadcast of 1936, starring George Burns & Gracie Allen and Bing Crosby. 
SEP 20 1936 Standard Brands replaces Sunday night’s Original Amateur Hour on NBC with A.L. Alexander’s Goodwill Court which also continues its Wednesday night run on WMCA/New York City.  It is forced off the air by lawyers’ complaints three months later. (See Network Jumpers and The 1936-37 Season.)
SEP 20 1936   WMC/Memphis dedicates its new 611 foot transmitter tower said to be the tallest in the south.
SEP 20 1938   Married stage veterans Frank Crumit and Julia Sanderson introduce The Battle of The Sexes quiz on NBC and begin a string of four Top 50 seasons.
SEP 20 1940   Mutual correspondent John Steele suffers minor injuries when hit by a bomb fragment in London. 
SEP 20 1940  A rush of patriotic songs hit the air, including, Give The Stars & Stripes A Permanent Wave; Liberty Bell: It’s Time To Ring Again; What Are You Doing For Your Uncle Sam? and What Will I Do If I Marry A Soldier? 
SEP 20 1940  WSAY/Rochester, New York, cancels its contract to carry weekly broadcasts by the Communist party, claiming they are not in the pubic interest.
SEP 20 1942   Radio and nightclub singer Dale Evans, 29, joins the cast of Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy’s Chase & Sanborn Hour.  (See Sunday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 20 1942   NBC reporter Talbot (Jimmy) Bone, who scooped the world in reporting the 1939 sinking of the Graf Spee off South America, dies of cancer in Lowell, Massachusetts.
SEP 20 1943  Decca Records and its subsidiary World Broadcasting System transcription service are first to settle with the striking AFM, agreeing to give the union royalties based on sales. (See Petrillo!)
SEP 20 1943   Musicians union boss James Petrillo claims the lengthy recording strike cost the AFM $7.0 Million.
SEP 20 1943   CBS asks its sponsors to eliminate all “cow-catcher” and “hitch-hike” commercials before and after their programs and absorb the spots into their shows. 
SEP 20 1943  Attorneys for indicted seditionist William Dudley Pelley file a libel-slander suit against Drew Pearson, the Blue Network, The Washington Evening Star, (owner of Pearson’s home station, WMAL) and others for $28.0 Million. 
SEP 20 1943  Wartime manpower shortages prompt NBC to hire its first two female tour guides at its Radio City studios.
SEP 20 1945   FCC proposes to drastically cut commercial television station approval permits to make way for an abundance of low powered  “community” stations. 
SEP 20 1945   DuMont Labs takes WABD(TV)/New York City off the air until December 15th to accommodate its conversion from Channel Four to Five.  (See Dr. DuMont’s Predictions.)
SEP 20 1946   FCC calls for hearings on the license renewals of WIBG/Philadelphia, KMAC and KONO/San Antonio, WTOL/Toledo and KBIX/Muskogee, Oklahoma, for “falling short” of the programming guidelines in its Blue Book.
SEP 20 1947  Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City Mayor from 1934 to 1945 and known for his use of radio, dies at 64.
SEP 20 1948   CBS reports that 22 of its programs for the 1948-49 season are in-house creations and 15 of them have been sold to sponsors.  (See CBS Packages Unwrapped.)
SEP 20 1948   The AFM offers to end the nine month recording ban with a proposal to create an employer funded plan to hire unemployed union musicians.  (See Petrillo!)
SEP 20 1948   Network television in the Midwest begins at 6:00 p.m. when ABC connects its WENR-TV/Chicago with stations in Cleveland, Toledo, Buffalo, St. Louis and Milwaukee via coaxial cable. 
SEP 20 1948   NBC-TV opens its Midwest network at 7:00 p.m. linking its affiliates in Chicago, Buffalo, Toledo, Detroit, Milwaukee and St Louis. 
SEP 20 1948  South Florida stations begin three continuous days of emergency operation when a Category Four hurricane strikes and forces 8,000 persons from their homes. 
SEP 20 1949  The four networks claim a combined cost of $583,000 for their summer long recording and delayed broadcast service for stations in areas not observing Daylight Saving Time.
SEP 20 1951  Veteran news commentators Joseph C. Harsh and William Shirer leave the Liberty Network after six months.
SEP 20 1951  RCA’s color television system is previewed for company officials.  Chairman David Sarnoff says it could have been successfully transmitted across the country over the new television relay system.
SEP 20 1952   The American Federation of Radio Artists, (AFRA), and the Television Authority unions merge to form the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists, (AFTRA).
SEP 20 1952   KPTV/Portland, Oregon, on Channel 27 becomes the first commercial UHF station.
SEP 20 1952  Jackie Gleason, 36, jumps from DuMont to his highly rated Saturday night variety hour on CBS-TV. 
SEP 20 1953  Former President Truman makes his commercial television debut in a segment of the NBC-TV juvenile education series, Excursion.  He is paid $8,000 for the appearance.

SEP 21 1933   Rudy Vallee calls the $900,000 paid to ASCAP during the past year by CBS and NBC to be “absurdly small” compared to the value of music to the networks’ programming.  (See Thursday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 21 1934   RCA President David Sarnoff, 43, is elected RCA Board Chairman. 
SEP 21 1935   Gabriel Heatter makes his network debut in a late Saturday and Sunday afternoon series of commentaries on Blue.  (See Multiple Runs All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 21 1936   The fledgling Legion of Decency For Radio mails 500,000 reprints of Massachusetts Congressman William Connery’s speech against the industry to clergymen.  
SEP 21 1936   Rudy Vallee, with a male quartet and pianist accompanying him, flies into Cleveland unannounced to appear before an audience of 14,000 at the American Legion’s national convention.  
SEP 21 1938   A Category Three hurricane - still known as The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 - strikes the Northeast from Long Island northward with little warning.  Stations undamaged by the storm assume fulltime emergency service status as fatalities mount to 700 and damages eventually total $306 Million.  
SEP 21 1938  Boston stations WBZ, WEEI, WHDH, WMEX and WORL are knocked off the air by the Wednesday hurricane.  WEEI and WMEX resume broadcasting the next morning, WBZ, WHDH and WORL don’t return until Friday. 
SEP 21 1938   Both Worcester, Massachusetts stations, WTAG and WORC, lose their towers to the hurricane.  WTAG switches to an auxiliary transmitter within minutes but WORC is off the air for almost four days.
SEP 21 1938   WPRO/Providence loses its towers and its transmitter is flooded by the hurricane, forcing the station off the air for two days. 
SEP 21 1941  The Chicago Tribune puts WGN’s experimental FM station, W59C, on the air.
SEP 21 1942   Coca-Cola moves its Monday through Saturday Spotlight Bands from Mutual to Blue, expands it from 15 to 30 minutes and renames it, The Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands, originating from military bases and defense plants. (See Spotlight Bands.)
SEP 21 1943   Kate Smith appears 64 times over 17 hours of CBS programs and is credited with selling $37.0 Million in U.S. War Bonds.  (See Kate’s Great Song and Friday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 21 1944  CBS war correspondent Richard C. Hottelet becomes the first American newsman to report directly from Holland since the beginning of World War II.
SEP 21 1946   NBC correspondent David Brinkley is appointed the four networks’ pool reporter from the scene of a Sabena Airlines DC-4 plane crash that killed 26 at Gander Lakes, Newfoundland. 
SEP 21 1947   KFWB/Los Angeles bans 25 songs as “objectionable” including: Making Whoopee, Love For Sale, Empty Bed Blues, Aren’t You Kinda Glad We Did, Red Light, Horizontal and I’m Gonna Be A Bad Girl. 
SEP 21 1948   J. Carrol Naish debuts in Life With Luigi and begins successful five year run on CBS.  (See Life With Luigi, Tuesday's All Time Top Ten and CBS Packages Unwrapped.)
SEP 21 1948   NBC-TV’s Texaco Star Theater starring Milton Berle begins its assault on Network Radio’s Tuesday night audience. 
SEP 21 1949  FCC suspends its controversial anti-giveaway rules pending court decisions of the Commission’s broad interpretation of existing lottery laws.  (See Stop The Music! )
SEP 21 1949   Spin To Win follows Winner Take All and Beat The Clock and becomes the third sustaining giveaway show in three weeks to be cancelled by CBS
SEP 21 1949  Citing a broad interpretation of its duopoly rules, the FCC denies the $1.93 Million sale of WHAS AM-FM-TV/Louisville to Crosley Broadcasting, owner of WLW AM-FM-TV/Cincinnati. 
SEP 21 1949   Bing Crosby leaves ABC and returns to CBS and one of his first sponsors, Chesterfield cigarettes.
SEP 21 1951  Hadacol promoter Dudley LeBlanc sells his company and refuses to pay radio stars Jimmy Durante, Milton Berle, Dick Haymes and others who performed in his touring shows.  (See Hadacol.)

SEP 22 1927  NBC broadcasts the Jack Dempsey vs. Gene Tunney Heavyweight Championship fight on 61 stations affiliated with its Red, Blue and Pacific networks.
SEP 22 1933   Sime Silverman, founder of trade paper Variety in 1905, dies in Los Angeles at 60.
SEP 22 1933   NBC issues an order that all programs must announce the city in which they originate. 
SEP 22 1933   FRC approves a resolution allowing 40 stations to operate with 50,000 watts and considers increasing power limits to 500,000 watts. 
SEP 22 1934   WLS/Chicago begins a drive to raise $3,000 to help the station take 12,000 underprivileged youngsters to the Chicago World’s Fair. 
SEP 22 1934   Most NBC and Blue affiliated stations refuse to broadcast Shell Oil’s paid announcements promoting the company’s Friday night Red Grange Football Forecasts on CBS.
SEP 22 1935   Veteran monologist DeWolf Hopper, 70, collapses and dies after a radio broadcast in Kansas City.  Among his six wives was Hollywood columnist, Hedda Hopper, 20 years his junior.
SEP 22 1941  Mutual beats Blue and CBS to a $1.0 Million Coca-Cola contract for a Monday through Saturday night series of big band broadcasts due to begin in November.  (See Spotlight Bands.) 
SEP 22 1941  WOAI/San Antonio petitions the FCC to raise its power from 50,000 watts to 750,000 watts.
SEP 22 1941  KTSA/San Antonio begins a ten week radio series of bridge lessons.
SEP 22 1942   OWI Radio Bureau chief William Lewis, a former CBS Vice President, asks all stations to appoint a “War Program Director,” in charge of all transcriptions and scripts sent it with requests for broadcast by his department.  
SEP 22 1942   Bob Hope interrupts his USO trip to Alaska to fly back to Fort Lewis, Washington, and open his 1942-43 NBC season, then returns to Alaska with Jerry Colonna and Frances Langford for another week of entertaining troops.  (See Hope From Home and “Professor” Jerry Colonna.) 
SEP 22 1943   CBS newscaster Cecil Brown submits his resignation over a dispute with the network’s policy against editorializing.
SEP 22 1944   ABC applies to the FCC for commercial television licenses in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles.
SEP 22 1944  Radio Luxembourg resumes full operation as an Allied Forces station.
SEP 22 1946   CBS returns its 90 minute Stars In The Afternoon to showcase its 1946-47 programs,  hosted by Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra and featuring a stage full of network personalities. 
SEP 22 1947  The AFM signs a pact with two national groups representing music teachers and school administrators which allows school children to play in non commercial broad-casts without union interference.  (See Petrillo!)
SEP 22 1948  WFIL-FM/Philadelphia successfully demonstrates multiplexing separate aural and facsimile signals on the same frequency. 
SEP 22 1948  NBC releases Behind Your Radio Dial, a 25 minute film designed to sell radio to its affiliates’ listeners and advertisers.
SEP 22 1949  The Kraft Music Hall leaves NBC after a 16 year run.  (See Thursday’s All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 22 1949   Ed Wynn’s CBS-TV show becomes the first West Coast origination for network television delivered East of the Rockies on kinescope film.
SEP 22 1950  Schenley Industries becomes the first liquor company to advertise on FCC governed stations, buying 15-minute sportscasts three nights a week on the Alaska Broadcasting System stations in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Seward, Juneau and Sitka.
SEP 22 1952   Lawyers for ABC and United Paramount Theaters tell the FCC that the proposed merger of the companies will, “…provide a potent contribution to the competitive development of network broadcasting, particularly in the emerging television art.”

SEP 23 1932   Ed Wynn announces plans for his Amalgamated Broadcasting System,  “..a creative organization to produce programs with the Broadway tradition.”
SEP 23 1935   The ACLU pressures Congress to demand that the FCC open its complaint files for public inspection.
SEP 23 1935   Ticker News, Inc., which provides a wired music service to restaurants and businesses in New York City and Philadelphia advises clients it may begin accepting spot advertising.
SEP 23 1937  RCA sponsors the four hour boxing marathon Carnival of Champions on the Blue Network from New York’s Polo Grounds, with four announcers, one each describing the Lightweight, Bantamweight, Welterweight and Middleweight Championship bouts. 
SEP 23 1938  The Supreme Court of Georgia rules that WSB/Atlanta is engaged in interstate commerce and not subject to a city license tax placed on “local broadcasters.” 
SEP 23 1938  FTC charges Dr. Lyons Tooth Powder with misrepresenting the value of a bracelet offered to radio listeners who sent in a box top and ten cents. 
SEP 23 1940  Charging, “Men powerful in the field of radio,” had forced his decision, Detroit priest Charles Coughlin cancels his controversial program’s planned return to the air on a 52 station independent network.  (See Father Coughlin.)
SEP 23 1941  Radio’s “Goat Gland Doctor” John R. Brinkley, his wife and six co-workers in the Brinkley’s “clinics” in Del Rio, Texas, and Little Rock, Arkansas, are indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for mail fraud.  
SEP 23 1941  Frances Langford, 28, replaces Judy Garland as vocalist on NBC’s Bob Hope Show while Blanche Stewart & Elvina Allman, (Brenda & Cobina), are dropped from the cast after sponsor Pepsodent receives listener complaints about their risqué material.
(See Tuesday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 23 1942   The OWI and Treasury Department ask radio stations to substitute all spot announcements allocated to War Bond sales during the month to messages urging fuel oil conservation.
SEP 23 1944  NBC broadcasts a special program commemorating the opening of Crosley Broadcasting’s three new Voice of America shortwave facilities in Cincinnati operating at 200,000 watts.
SEP 23 1945  CBS presents its second 90 minute Stars In The Afternoon broadcast, this time to promote its West Coast shows, with Jimmy Durante, Garry Moore, Frank Sinatra, Nelson Eddy, Ann Sothern, Ozzie Nelson & Harriet Hilliard and others.
SEP 23 1945   Gene Autry is released from the Air Force and returns to his Melody Ranch series on CBS for the next eleven seasons.  (See Saturday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 23 1946 Claiming the program wasn’t "strong" enough, NBC Vice President Clarence Menser refuses Wildroot Cream Oil’s attempt to buy 15 minutes on a 145 station network Saturdays at 5:45 p.m. for The Nat King Cole Trio Show. 
SEP 23 1946   Despite a three month test deemed 80% successful, the FCC votes 5-1 to deny the Press Wireless service the use of shortwave facilities to distribute news reports to subscribing stations, thus eliminating line costs.  
SEP 23 1949  CBS newscaster Lowell Thomas, 57, injures his leg when thrown from a horse while vacationing in the Himalaya mountains.  (See Multiple Runs All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 23 1951  CBS-TV stages a 13 hour fund raiser led by Ed Sullivan and woven into regular programming that generates $200,000 for the Crusade For Freedom and its support for Radio Free Europe. The 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. portion was the first entertainment programming to be broadcast on transcontinental television.
SEP 23 1952  The Republican National Committee spends $75,000 to buy time on CBS, Mutual and NBC-TV for California Senator and Vice Presidential candidate Richard Nixon’s famous Checkers speech - later reported by Nielsen to have registered a 48.9 television rating.
SEPT 23 1953 According to orders already placed, NBC-TV’s 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. Today show will earn $7.5 Million in 1953 and become television’s highest grossing program of the year.

SEP 24 1933   The American Album of Familiar Music, on the air since 1931, moves to 9:30 p.m. Sunday on NBC where it will remain for 13 seasons.  (See Hummert’s Musical Mystery and Gus Haenschen.)
SEP 24 1934  WDAS/Philadelphia goes 100% foreign language after 7:30 p.m. nightly with programs in German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Slovak and Ukranian. 
SEP 24 1935  Transradio Press positions a reporter with a portable shortwave transmitter near ringside at the Joe Louis vs. Max Baer non-title fight in Yankee Stadium to provide blow-by-blow reports relayed to its client stations.
SEP 24 1937  King-Trendle Broadcasting signs a contract with Republic Pictures to produce one feature film and a 15 chapter serial based on The Lone Ranger.  (See The Lone Ranger, Multiple Runs All Time Top Ten and Radio Goes To The Movies.)
SEP 24 1938  The National Independent Broadcasters representing non-network stations signs a standard two year agreement with the American Federation of Musicians. 
SEP 24 1939   Pioneer radio newsman Floyd Gibbons, 52, dies of a heart attack.
SEP 24 1939   Lawrence Tibbett, Grace Moore, Gladys Swarthout, Marian Anderson, Richard Crooks and John Charles Thomas are booked as soloists with Detroit Symphony after sponsor Henry Ford demands that his Sunday evening concerts on CBS feature only American artists.
SEP 24 1939  A Sunday afternoon fire in the fifth floor Radio City television studios of NBC destroys $10,000 in equipment.
SEP 24 1940   President Roosevelt creates the Defense Communication Board to plan the role of radio in national defense, but prohibits it from any censorship activity or taking over broadcasting facilities.
SEP 24 1941  The U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs begins the weekly distribution of 40,000 U.S.shortwave schedules in South American countries to promote listenership in the propaganda war with Nazi Germany.
SEP 24 1942   Glenn Miller’s orchestra performs its final Moonlight Serenade broadcast on CBS before Miller enters the Army Air Force.  (See In The Miller Mood.)
SEP 24 1942   As the AFM ban against recordings continues, U.S. Senate votes unanimously to investigate the union and its president, James Petrillo. (See Petrillo!)
SEP 24 1942  U.S. Censorship Board prohibits fund raising radio shows selling War Bonds from identifying bond purchasers or amounts pledged as they might be a vehicle for coded messages.
SEP 24 1944  Mutual’s musical game show, What’s The Name of That Song? begins its four season run.
SEP 24 1945   After three seasons on Blue, The Wander Company’s Ovaltine switches its weekday afternoon kids’ serial Captain Midnight from ABC back to Mutual.  (See Serials, Cereals & Premiums.)
SEP 24 1945  Emerson Drug and its ad agency McCann-Erickson make a landmark spot radio buy for Bromo Seltzer of 2,000 one-minute commercials per week on 180 Keystone (transcribed) Network affiliates. 
SEP 24 1945   WNEW/New York City buys the syndicated Easy Aces from Ziv Productions for nightly broadcast at 7:45.  (See Easy Aces and Fred Ziv - King of Syndication.)
SEP 24 1946   As 68 NABET engineers at Westinghouse owned KYW/Philadelphia, KDKA/Pittsburgh, WBZ/Boston and WBZA/Springfield go on strike, the union demands that NBC stop feeding programs to the stations. 
SEP 24 1947   Bill Paley returns from his seven week European honeymoon to re-assume control of CBS.
SEP 24 1947  Bandleader Guy Lombardo signs a three year contract with Ziv to produce 156 transcribed half hour programs for $156,000 annually.  (See Guy Lombardo and Fred Ziv - King of Syndication.)
SEP 24 1948  A last minute flood of briefs is filed with the FCC in opposition to the Commission’s “anti-giveaway” ruling, characterized by ABC as, “…arbitrary, capricious and beyond the jurisdiction of the Commission.” 
SEP 24 1950   Fred Allen, 56, makes his television debut on NBC-TV’s Colgate Comedy Hour and scores a 33.9 rating in a special four city ARB survey against a 27.9 for Ed Sullivan’s Toast of The Town on CBS-TV.  (See The Feud.)
SEP 24 1950  NBC Radio and Television present a half-hour preview of Irving Berlin’s new Broadway musical, Call Me Madam, which the network financed in return for broadcast and recording rights.  But star Ethel Merman was in Boston and unable to appear.  
SEP 24 1951   Pioneer soap opera The Story of Mary Marlin, off the air for six years, is revived for a 39 week run on ABC’s weekday afternoon schedule.  (See Soft Soap & Hard Sell.)
SEP 24 1951 Louis Cowan sells ten-year rights to The Quiz Kids to CBS for $2,500 a week, and twice that amount for every week that the program is fully sponsored on radio and television.  (See The Quiz Kids.)
SEP 24 1951  R.J. Reynolds’ Camel cigarettes signs Bob Hawk, 43, to a new three-year contract guaranteeing the CBS quizmaster a total reported to be, “…more than $1.0 Million.”  (See Monday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 24 1951  Columnist/commentator Drew Pearson’s $5.1 Million conspiracy trial against Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy and ten others opens in Washington, D.C. with Pearson claiming McCarthy’s speech urging a boycott of his sponsors cost him $150,000.

SEP 25 1931 Future network legend John F. Royal is appointed NBC Vice President of Programs.
SEP 25 1933   CBS begins programming two five-minute newscasts a day, Monday through Saturday at 12:30 and 4:30 p.m., sponsored by General Mills. 
SEP 25 1933   Kids’ serial Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters begins its 18 season multi-network run on NBC.  (See Serials, Cereals & Premiums.)
SEP 25 1933  Ed Wynn’s Amalgamated Broadcasting System debuts over 14 eastern seaboard stations with a four hour inaugural program from WBNX/New York City that is criticized for its disorganization and high level of technical noise.
SEP 25 1933  The University of Minnesota refuses to let a St. Paul brewery sponsor broadcasts of its football games.
SEP 25 1933   Lee DeForest signs a three year contract renewal with General Patents Co. granting it use of all of his television patents for a $25,000 annual retainer plus royalties.
SEP 25 1934   NBC’s second oldest program, Soconyland Sketches, leaves the air after seven years and 378 episodes.
SEP 25 1935   WLS/Chicago resumes its threat to leave the Blue Network if its compen-sation to carry network programs  isn’t increased “substantially.”
SEP 25 1936  WMAL/Washington, D.C., successfully demonstrates a “solar powered” battery to transmit the station’s signal for engineers while an announcer explains the process to listeners.
SEP 25 1936   Kraft Cheese gives rural comic Bob Burns a raise from $550 to $1,750 a week to continue as Bing Crosby’s stooge on NBC’s Kraft Music Hall - for  which Crosby is paid $3,000 per week.  (See Bob Burns & Thursday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 25 1939   WLW/Cincinnati asks the U.S. Supreme Court to consider its appeal to return to 500,000 watts of power.
SEP 25 1939   The Cincinnati Times-Star buys WKRC/Cincinnati from CBS for $275,000. WKRC joins Mutual and WCKY becomes Cincinnati’s CBS affiliate.
SEP 25 1939   NBC attempts a five minute series of newscasts from Berlin at 7:25 p.m., but drops the idea after one broadcast.
SEP 25 1940   The Communist Party complains to the FCC that eight Blue Network stations refuse to sell it time for political speeches. 
SEP 25 1940   George Gerhardi, former Director of German Programs for WPEN/ Philadelphia, fired in 1937 as a Nazi agent and since 1939 broadcasting shortwave propaganda from Berlin, is stripped of his U.S. citizenship.  
SEP 25 1942   A new trade group, American Broadcasters Association, is formed in Chicago by stations dissatisfied with personnel actions of the National Association of Broadcasters.
SEP 25 1942   Mutual boasts the largest network ever assembled for a weekly commercial program for its two year old Double Or Nothing on 204 stations. (See Mutual Led The Way.) 
SEP 25 1943   A sustaining program for 13 years, CBS children’s program Let’s Pretend opens its 14th season with a sponsor, Cream of Wheat cereal.  (See Let's Pretend.)
SEP 25 1943   CBS launches a fall season promotional campaign valued at “...almost a million dollars,” involving radio spots, newspaper ads, direct mail  and car cards in its 119 affiliate cities.
SEP 25 1944   The Blue Network changes its corporate identity to The American Broadcasting Company.
SEP 25 1944   ABC Vice President Ed Kobak tells the press that the former Blue Network plans to spend $7.0 Million for expansion of television and building an FM network because, “…FM will someday displace AM.”
SEP 25 1946   WIRA/Fort Pierce, Florida, becomes the 1,000th AM station licensed by the FCC.
SEP 25 1946  Mutual correspondent Royal Arch Gunnison, 37, is killed in the crash of a Royal Air Force plane in Hong Kong.
SEP 25 1946   CBS rejects a $5,000 giveaway stunt proposed for the Joan Davis sitcom Joanie’s Tea Room, in which five dollar bills with lucky serial numbers would be placed in circulation, each with a $1,000 bounty.  
SEP 25 1946   Sponsor Pabst Beer offers $2,500 prize money in a contest for NBC affiliates providing local promotion for the brewery’s new Eddie Cantor program.
SEP 25 1946   Breakfast Club host Don McNeill debuts Don McNeill’s Dinner Club Wednesday nights on WBKB(TV)/Chicago.
SEP 25 1947  AFM President James Petriillo rules that members cannot play on network co-op programs including the new Abbot & Costello Show on ABC,, the Joan Davis Show on CBS and Mutual’s Parkyakarkas Show.  The ban also prohibits any musical programs offered to stations on a co-op basis.  (See Petrillo!)
SEP 25 1949   CBS previews its “Five Million Dollar Dream Roster” that begins the following Sunday night as Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy, Red Skelton and Amos & Andy all appear as guests on Jack Benny’s program.  (See Sunday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 25 1949   After three years on CBS, sponsor Wildroot Cream Oil moves The Adventures of Sam Spade to NBC.  (See The Curse of Dashiell Hammett.)
SEP 25 1949   Sun Oil begins its sponsorship of 15 National Football League games on ABC-TV to be broadcast in twelve non-NFL cities and league cities that don’t have games that conflict with the televised matches. 
SEP 25 1950  WQQW/Washington, D.C., repudiates the accusation by Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy that , “…the station appears to be completely under Communist control,” by citing factual falsehoods in the charges.
SEP 25 1950   The weekday afternoon, Kate Smith Show variety hour debuts on NBC-TV at 4:00 p.m.   (See Kate’s Great Song.)
SEP 25 1950  Lever Brothers complains that Philip Morris’ plan to slot Horace Heidt’s Youth Opportuny Program immediately following Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts on CBS violates Lever’s Monday night exclusivity pact with the network for talent competitions.
SEP 25 1952   General Foods signs a $2.0 Million contract to sponsor Bob Hope in a weekday 15 minute radio commentary in addition to his weekly Wednesday night half hour radio show. 
SEP 25 1953  The American Dairy Association picks up sponsorship of Bob Hope’s weekly 30 minute radio show and moves it to Friday, but General Foods keeps Hope’s weekday quarter hour. 
SEP 25 1953  Capitol Records reports shipping 600,000 copies of Stan Freberg’s spoof of Dragnet - St. George & The Dragonet - within twelve days of its release.  (See Jack Webb‘s Dragnet.)
SEP 25 1953  The Liberace Show is sold in its 100th television market and reaches $1.0 Million in revenues after six months in syndication.

SEP 26, 1928  Congress Cigar Company heir, William Paley, 26, buys the Columbia Broadcasting System for $503,000.
SEP 26 1930  United Artists Pictures pays Eddie Cantor $7,000 to appear with Guy Lombardo’s orchestra in a special CBS hour promoting Cantor’s first talking picture, Whoopee!, opening the next day.  (See Radio Goes To The Movies.)
SEP 26 1933  The Washingon Star retaliates against CBS establishing a news bureau and broadcasting daily newscasts by banning the network’s program listings and any mention of CBS-owned WJSV. 
SEP 26 1935   Elliot Roosevelt, 27 year old son of FDR, is appointed President of the five station Southwest Broadcasting Co.
SEP 26 1936   Early quiz show Uncle Jim’s Question Bee begins its five year multi-network run.
SEP 26 1936   Controversial Detroit priest Charles Coughlin’s speech at Philadelphia’s Municipal Stadium is broadcast by local stations WCAU and WFIL.  (See Father Coughlin.)
SEP 26 1937   Orson Welles, 22, debuts as Lamont Cranston aka The Shadow on Mutual.  Welles leaves after two  seasons but the program continues for a legendary 18 year run.  (See The Shadow Nos.)
SEP 26 1937   Cleveland stations switch networks - WHK from CBS to Blue and WGAR from Blue to CBS.
SEP 26 1937   The Don Lee Network - Pacific Coast branch of Mutual - grows to 24 affiliates with the addition of twelve  stations in Washington and Oregon. 
SEP 26 1938  NBC issues a lengthy code covering all juvenile programs that prohibits cliff hangers along with gunfire, horror, voicing of pain, fear or dying, vulgarity, violence or disrespect of the law or authority, .  
SEP 26 1938  Jack Benny and Mary Livingston host Lux Radio Theater for one broadcast when regular host Cecil B. DeMille stars in the program’s adaptation of Seven Keys To Baldpate.  (See Lux…Presents Hollywood! and Monday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 26 1938   NBC opens 24 hour shortwave service to Latin America to compliment its fulltime service to Europe.
SEP 26 1938   The 1938 edition of Who’s Who adds four new names from Network Radio: Edgar Bergen, Jack Benny, Bob Burns and Frances Langford.
SEP 26 1939   NBC’s Pot O Gold becomes the first big giveaway program, (awarding listeners $1,000 money), for answering their telephones when called by hosts Ben Grauer and Horace Heidt.  (See First Season Phenoms.)
SEP 26 1939   Bob Hope opens his new season on NBC with Judy Garland added to his cast.  (See Tuesday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 26 1939   Bandleader Artie Shaw leaves his Wednesday night show on Blue for Old Gold cigarettes when the sponsor’s agency, Lennen & Mitchell, reprimands him for calling his fans, “morons.”
SEP 26 1941   WPTZ-TV/Philadelphia broadcasts the first televised night football game,  Kansas vs. Temple.
SEP 26 1942   Glenn Miller’s band makes its last commercial broadcast on Coca-Cola’s Spotlight Bands on Blue. from Passaic, New Jersey’s Central Theater. (See In The Miller Mood and Spotlight Bands.)
SEP 26 1943 The Hollywood Bond Cavalcade tour of film and radio stars returns to Los Angeles after its 10,000 mile, 16 city train trip with bond sales for the Third War Loan campaign totaling $1.1 Billion.  (See Kay Kyser.)
SEP 26 1945   Continuing the trend of newspaper-broadcasting cross-ownership the Philadelphia Inquirer buys WFIL AM-FM/Philadelphia for $1.9 Million and the Boston Herald-Traveler buys WHDH/Boston for $850,000; 
SEP 26 1947  The Continental FM Network defies musicians union chief Petrillo’s ban and continues its Treasury of Music  broadcasts with non-union musicians.  (See Petrillo!)
SEP 26 1947  President Truman appears on the Community Chest Salute program starring Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour and James Stewart on all four national networks.
SEP 26 1948   DuMont’s Original Amateur Hour becomes network television’s first coast-to-coast commercial broadcast reaching six East Coast stations live and Cleveland, Chicago and Los Angeles stations by kinescope recording.  (See Dr. DuMont's Predictions.)
SEP 26 1949  WGN/Chicago begins all-night programming with Erving Victor’s five-hour disc jockey show sponsored by The Mail Order Network, a “per-inquiry” advertiser who pays the station a commission for each sale generated by the program.
SEP 26 1949   The first FCC hearings are held dealing with competing color television systems.
SEP 26 1949   DuMont Laboratories opens its 480,000 square foot factory in East Paterson, New Jersey, capable of turning out a new television set every 22 seconds.  (See Dr. DuMont's Predictions.)
SEP 26 1951  Variety reports that NBC’s Kate Smith has tied Arthur Godfrey on CBS as commercial broadcasting’s most profitable personality, each responsible for $12.0 Million in annual billings.  (See The Gold In The Golden Age.)
SEP 26 1951   Detective series The Fat Man is cancelled after a five year run on ABC.  (See Friday's All Time Top Ten and The Curse of Dashiell Hammett.)
SEP 26 1951   Comedy panel show It Pays To Be Ignorant is cancelled after a nine year mullti-network run.  (See It Pays To Be Ignorant.)
SEP 26 1951   Syndicator Lang-Worth announces the sale of Orson Welles’ transcribed series The Lives of Harry Lime in 18 countries.
SEP 26 1952   Operatic movie star Mario Lanza, 31, leaves Network Radio after one season on CBS for Coca-Cola. 

SEP 27 1931  Bandleader Wayne King, 30, begins his nine season run of The Lady Esther Serenade often running concurrently on NBC and CBS - placing three separate half hours in the 1936-37 Top 50. (See The Waltz King.)
SEP 27 1933   Sterling Drugs’ Waltz Time begins its 15 season run on NBC,  (See Frank Munn’s Golden Voice.)
SEP 27 1935  KTRH/Houston announcer Harry Grier’s man on the street interviews are interrupted by a banker’s suicide leap from a 10th story hotel window to the nearby sidewalk.
SEP 27 1936   The Yankee Network begins operations on eleven New England stations anchored by WNAC/Boston and the co-owed Colonial Network opens with another eleven New England affiliates anchored by WABB/Boston.
SEP 27 1937  Four of  the five Pan American frequencies reserved for U. S. Government shortwave operation go on the auction block under FCC supervision.
SEP 27 1938   FCC singles out Blue affiliate WTCN/Minneapolis-St. Paul to defend its license against charges of profanity for carrying the network’s July 28th dramatization of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize winning Beyond The Horizon. 
SEP 27 1938   Bob Hope, 35, begins his highly rated 12 year run on NBC’s Tuesday night schedule. (See Tuesday’s All Time Top Ten and Hope From Home.)
SEP 27 1940  FCC determines the 625 Trade Areas within the United States to be served by the 35 FM broadcasting channels.
SEP 27 1940  Death Valley Days, Network Radio’s oldest dramatic series, celebrates its 10th anniversary on Blue with a full hour program.
SEP 27 1940   The Democratic National Committee buys 30 minutes on Blue at 9:30 p.m. for a campaign broadcast featuring Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Katherine Hepburn, Thornton Wilder and Edna Ferber.  
SEP 27 1942  Edgar Bergen originates his Chase & Sanborn Hour from the U.S. Naval Academy with subsequent Sunday night shows scheduled from West Point and the Marine training base at Quantico, Virginia.  (See Sunday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 27 1943  Bill Henry replaces Cecil Brown on the CBS nightly newscast at 8:55 p.m. after Brown quit over the network’s policy forbidding editorial comment.  (See Multiple Runs All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 27 1943  CBS and NBC ban the British song, I’m Going To Get All Lit Up When The Lights Go On Again In London, because the lyrics, “…are too encouraging to drinking.” 
SEP 27 1943   Information Please is broadcast before a sell-out audience of 3,277at Newark’s Mosque Theater and sells a record $277.4 Million in War Bonds - of which  $275 Million is contributed by local businesses.  (See Information Please.)
SEP 27 1944   AFRA proposes a 10% raise for talent in new contracts with networks and transcription companies.
SEP 27 1946   Weekday serial Bachelor’s Children is cancelled after a ten consecutive year multi-network run.  (See Soft Soap & Hard Sell.)
SEP 27 1946  Union engineers at NBC/Chicago disconnect the southern leg of the net-work for nine minutes in a show of support for striking Westinghouse station engineers. 
SEP 27 1946  NBC offers four weekday newscasts for local co-op sales: World News Roundup each morning,  Robert McCormick’s afternoon new analysis, and  News of The World and H.V. Kaltenborn Edits The News every evening.  (See Multiple Runs All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 27 1948  FCC tells broadcasters that although Congress ruled lottery prosecution is the authority of the Justice Department, the Commission can still deny license renewals to stations that break its rules. 
SEP 27 1948  Contrary to the FCC’s highly publicized mail count of several hundred cards and letters against giveaway programs, a University of Wichita survey of 6,600 Kansas listeners runs 80% in favor of them.
SEP 27 1948  President Truman’s local appearance is the first television event seen on WBAP-TV/Fort Worth but the Dallas-Fort Worth area’s first station doesn’t begin regular programming for another two days.
SEP 27 1949 Advertisers attending the Premium Advertising Association meeting in New York City that the use of premiums as sales incentives has become a $1.0 Billion annual business.  (See Serials, Cereals & Premiums.)
SEP 27 1949  FCC begins its color television hearings to determine its future while 200,000 new black & white receivers are sold every month.  
SEP 27 1949  The Radio Manufacturers’ Association, representing all television set makers except Admiral, flatly reject the CBS color system for its incompatibility. 
SEP 27 1950  President Truman signs a supplemental defense bill granting $41.3 Million to create six new powerful shortwave stations for Voice of America broadcasts.
SEP 27 1950  Pabst Beer pays $125,000 for radio and television rights to the Joe Louis vs. Ezzard Charles Heavyweight Championship fight on CBS, won by Charles in a unanimous 15-round decision. The match scores a 64.8 rating on CBS-TV in the twelve Eastern cities surveyed by C.E. Hooper.
SEP 27 1952  Arlene Francis and Bill Cullen begin their one-year run with the CBS Saturday afternoon game show Fun For All.
SEP 27 1952  The four radio networks carry the United Community Campaign all-star kickoff hour hosted by Ronald Reagan and featuring an address by President Truman.   
SEP 27 1953  Bing Crosby replaces Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy from the coveted 8:00 p.m. Sunday timeslot on CBS.
SEP 27 1953   Longtime NBC affiliates WTAR AM&TV/Norfolk,Virginia, switch to CBS.
SEP 27 1953 DuMont begins its twelve week schedule of televising 48 NFL pro football games to a total of 39 national and regional networks over the course of the season.
SEP 27 1953  WXYZ-TV/Detroit premieres Mello-D Roundup hosted by Judge Colt - stage name of J.D. Beemer, the adult son of Network Radio’s Lone Ranger, Brace Beemer. (See The Lone Ranger.)

SEP 28 1936   WOL/Washington affiliates with Mutual as the network opens a news bureau in the capital.
SEP 28 1936   Bess Flynn’s soap opera Bachelor’s Children opens its ten year multi-network run from Chicago on CBS.  (See Soft Soap & Hard Sell.)
SEP 28 1939   Rudy Vallee performs his last NBC broadcast for Standard Brands, his Thursday night sponsor for ten seasons.  (See Thursday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 28 1941 Coca-Cola debuts its Sunday afternoon half hour Pause That Refreshes classical music show on CBS, paying soprano Lily Pons $5,000 to appear as its first guest star.  
SEP 28 1941  Blue Network stations on the West Coast begin Sunday night transcribed rebroadcasts of Jack Benny’s program first heard at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time on NBC.  (See Benny’s Double Plays and Sunday At Seven.) 
SEP 28 1942  Noted news analyst Raymond Gram Swing leaves Mutual after eight years for Blue - veteran Blue newsman Raymond Clapper is named his replacement..
SEP 28 1942  The NAB publishes The C Is For Caesar, a booklet stating its case against the AFM and its leader, James Caesar Petrillo.  (See Petrillo!)
SEP 28 1942  WNEW/New York City disc jockey Martin Block is credited with helping sell $60,000 in War Bonds by offering a free recording of Spike Jones’ Der Fuehrer’s Face! to listeners who bought $50 bonds.  (See Spike Jones.)
SEP 28 1942   CBS sitcom Blondie admits studio audiences for the first time in three seasons, giving ticket priority to Armed Forces personnel.  (See Bloonn…dee!)
SEP 28 1942   Ben Bernie and Gracie Fields host Back ‘Em Up, America! a late night all-star variety show selling War Bonds, originating at WGN and broadcast on seven Chicago stations. 
SEP 28 1943  NBC’s Truth Or Consequences reports receiving 15,000 letters containing pledges to buy $3.5 Million in War Bonds in response to a wounded sailor’s appearance on the show.  (See Truth Or Consequences and Saturday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 28 1943  Jack Benny returns from a ten week USO tour entertaining troops in Central Africa, Nigeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Persia, Sicily and Italy.
SEP 28 1945   Danny Kaye begins his second season of Pabst Beer’s Blue Ribbon Town on CBS then leaves for a six week USO tour.
SEP 28 1945   Paramount Pictures releases Duffy’s Tavern, loosely based on the radio show starring Ed Gardner and featuring Bing Crosby plus most every other star at the studio in cameos.  (See Duffy Ain’t Here and Radio Goes To The Movies.)
SEP 28 1945  NBC and ABC sign contracts with their 500 NABET engineers granting $21 weekly raises and designating its members as the “platter turners” handling records and transcriptions despite the objections from the AFM. 
SEP 28 1946  The National Barn Dance from WLS/Chicago concludes its 13 season multi-network run on NBC.  (See Saturday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 28 1947  Mr. District Attorney creator Ed Byron introduces his Adventures of Christopher Wells for a one season run on CBS.
SEP 28 1948  A capacity audience of 1,300 pays ten dollars a ticket at a Spokane theater to see Bing Crosby record his ABC program with proceeds going to the city’s stadium fund.  (See Wednesday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 28 1949   Bing Crosby’s moves his transcribed half hour variety show from ABC to CBS.
SEP 28 1949  A Gallup Poll is released showing that 83% of its respondents listen to radio giveaway shows.  (See Stop The Music!)
SEP 28 1951   ABC announces signing Walter Winchell to a “lifetime” contract - voided four years later.  (See Walter Winchell and Sunday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 28 1951 NBC, longtime foe of transcribed programs, stuns observers by purchasing four series, Bright Star, Bold Venture, Favorite Story and The Guy Lombardo Show from Ziv Productions for broadcast on WNBC/New York City.  (See Fred Ziv - King of Syndication.)
SEP 28 1951   WSM/Nashville’s Artists Bureau sues former Hadacol owner Dudley LeBlanc for $20,000 owed to Hank Williams and Minnie Pearl for their appearances on the patent medicine’s traveling show. (See Hadacol.) 
SEP 28 1951  Bristol-Myers moves Mr. District Attorney to ABC after 12 seasons on NBC.
(See Mr. District Attorney and Wednesday's All Time Top Ten.)

SEP 29 1930  Adventurer-author-lecturer Lowell Thomas, 38, begins his 46 year multi-network newscasting career on NBC Blue.  (See Multiple Runs All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 29 1934  The Quality Radio Group, a “cooperative” network, (and predecessor of Mutual), is founded by WOR/Newark, WGN/Chicago, WXYZ/Detroit and WLW/Cincinnati.
SEP 29 1935  Phil Baker replaces the late Will Rogers as host of Gulf Headliners, re-titled The Great American Tourist, beginning three successful seasons on CBS at $4,000 per week.
SEP 29 1935   Original Mutual network station WXYZ/Detroit becomes a Blue network affiliate but continues to feed The Lone Ranger to Mutual until 1942.  Mutual replaces WXYZ with CKLW/Windsor, Ontario.  Former Blue affiliate WJR replaces CKLW as Detroit’s CBS affiliate and increases its power to 50,000 watts..  (See The Lone Ranger.) 
SEP 29 1935  RCA debuts The Magic Key on Blue, a 60 minute Sunday afternoon potpourri of elaborate proportions with shortwave pickups from foreign lands, ocean vessels and aircraft plus top musical attractions from around America.  (See The Magic Key.) 
SEP 29 1936  The Democratic National Committee buys the entire NBC network except KFI/Los Angeles for an FDR campaign speech, considered retribution for the Earle Anthony station refusing a recent Fireside Chat address.  
SEP 29 1938  NBC’s Max Jordan scoops the competition by 46 minutes with his report of the Munich Conference agreement by France, Great Britain and Italy to cede parts of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany.  (See The 1938-39 Season.)
SEP 29 1938   Ezra Stone debuts as Henry Aldrich in the first of Aldrich Family skits on Kate Smith’s CBS variety hour. (See The Aldrich Family and Thursday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 29 1940   Mutual begins service to Utah’s Intermountain Network comprised of KLO/Salt Lake City-Ogden, KOVO/ Provo and KEUB/Price.
SEP 29 1940   Audience participation quiz Double Or Nothing begins its 14 year multi-network run on Mutual.
SEP 29 1940   KFJI/Klamath Falls, Oregon, becomes Mutual’s 150th affiliate.
SEP 29 1941  The National Independent Broadcasters adopts a reorganization with elected representatives from each state and territory.
SEP 29 1941  Chet Lauck & Norris Goff and begin a six season run of Lum & Abner on Blue in four quarter hour installments a week.
SEP 29 1941  Mutual draws a 54.1 CAB rating for the Joe Louis vs. Lou Nova Heavy-weight Championship fight which Gillette also broadcasts to South America and Europe through GE shortwave stations WGEO, WGEA and WRUL.
SEP 29 1942   The Internal Revenue Service confirms its questionable ruling that advertising funds are tax deductible.
SEP 29 1942  Bandleader Harry James, 26, replaces Glenn Miller on the CBS quarter hour Chesterfield Time for two season run.  (See In The Miller Mood.)
SEP 29 1943   Art Baker sues People Are Funny producer John Guedel for wrongful termination as host of the program. (See People Are Funny and A John Guedel Production.)
SEP 29 1944  The U.S. House Select Committee To Investigate The FCC issues subpoenas to all networks for transcripts of all newscasts between June 1 and September 29 for reviews of bias.
SEP 29 1944   NBC and Gillette present the first of Friday night televised fights on WNBT(TV)/New York City and relay the Willie Pep vs. Chalky Wright match to WRGB(TV)/Schenectady and WPTZ(TV)/Philadelphia.
SEP 29 1946  The end of Daylight Saving Time for the year concludes the pioneering 22 weeks of transcribing and rebroadcasting  1,848 hours of network programs by ABC’s Central Division to accommodate stations remaining on Standard Time. 
SEP 29 1946  After four years on ABC, Miles Laboratories moves its Quiz Kids to NBC’s Sunday afternoon schedule.  (See The Quiz Kids.)
SEP 29 1946   Married couple Phil Harris, 42, & Alice Faye, 31, debut their sitcom in Fitch Bandwagon‘s Sunday NBC timeslot at 7:30 p.m.  beginning an eight season run.  (See Sunday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 29 1947   NBC moves Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians weekday show back one hour from 11:00 to 10:00 a.m. and away from the competition of ABC’s Breakfast In Hollywood and Arthur Godfrey Time on CBS.
SEP 29 1947   Lowell Thomas leaves NBC & Blue after 15 years and moves his nightly newscast to CBS.  (See Multiple Runs All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 29 1947   CBS drops the weeknight Red Barber sports commentary due to poor co-op sales and fills the 5:45 p.m. timeslot with the newly acquired Lum & Abner, moved after four years on ABC by sponsor Miles Laboratories.
SEP 29 1947  CBS Vice President of Public Affairs Edward R. Murrow leaves that position to begin his twelve years of weeknight newscasts on the network.
SEP 29 1947   General Electric opens a microwave relay giving its WRGB(TV)/Schenec-tady live television to and from  New York, Philadelphia and Washington.
SEP 29 1948  The Original Amateur Hour returns to Network Radio on ABC with host Ted Mack, a longtime associate of the late Major Edward Bowes.
SEP 29 1948  WSB-TV/Atlanta becomes the South’s first television station.
SEP 29 1949  Congress approves a 50% pay raise for FCC commissioners to $15,000 per year.
SEP 29 1950  A.C. Nielsen blames television’s impact for its September rating of Network Radio’s Number One show,  Lux Radio Theater, which it measures to have lost 6.0 Million listeners since September, 1949.  (See Radio's Rulers: Crossley, Hooper & Nielsen.)
SEP 29 1950  President Truman, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Lucille Ball and Art Linkletter headline The Red Feather Roundup, kicking off the Community Chest campaign on the four coast-to-coast radio networks.
SEP 29 1950  Led by RCA, the television set manufacturing industry overwhelmingly rejects the FCC decision to adopt the CBS color system.
SEP 29 1951  Transcontinental live television begins as NBC-TV’s Saturday night shows - The All Star Revue, Your Show of Shows and Your Hit Parade - become the first regularly scheduled commercial television programs to be transmitted from coast to coast. 
SEP 29 1951  Brad Barker, Network Radio’s foremost impersonator of animal sounds - sometimes appearing on 20 shows per week - dies in New York at 68.
SEP 29 1952  Eddie Cantor, 60, suffers a mild heart attack after his Colgate Comedy Hour appearance on NBC-TV.
SEP 29 1952  Henry Morgan begins a nightly three-hour, midnight to 3:00 a.m. interview show from Hutton’s Restaurant on WMGM/New York City while maintaining his nightly commentary on WJZ 

SEP 30 1929  Chicago’s National Farm & Home Hour begins its 29 year run - 16 seasons as a six day a week noontime program on Blue/ABC followed by 13 seasons as a Saturday afternoon feature on NBC.
SEP 30 1930   Western anthology Death Valley Days begins its 14 year, multi-network run under that title. 
SEP 30 1932  ASCAP agrees to a new three year contract with 130 newspaper owned stations granting them a 1/3 rate reduction - an estimated $400,000 total - in return for “the promotion and support” given music by the print media.
SEP 30 1933  The National Barn Dance from WLS/Chicago begins its 17 year multi-network run on Blue.  (See Saturday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 30 1935  A&P Stores presents a free, two hour non-broadcast vaudeville show headlined by Kate Smith for 15,000 dealers and employees at Madison Square Garden.
SEP 30 1937  Kate Smith begins her successful seven year series of hour-long CBS variety shows for General Foods.   (See Kate’s Great Song and Friday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 30 1938  All networks carry British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s infamous “Peace In Our Time” boast after signing the Munich agreement. 
SEP 30 1938  CBS and NBC report a combined total of 914 broadcasts covering the three week European crisis.  
SEP 30 1939  The first collegiate football game, Fordham vs. Waynesburg, is televised by NBC‘s W2XBS/New York.
SEP 30 1940   After nine years as head of NBC’s Program Department, John F. Royal  is replaced by Sid Strotz, General Manager of the network’s Chicago office.
SEP 30 1940  Crossley‘s CAB rating service announces increasing the size of its annual sampling from 509,000 calls to 700.000.  (See Radio's Rulers: Crossley, Hooper & Nielsen,)
SEP 30 1940   Kids’ serial Captain Midnight opens its nine season multi-network run on Mutual.  (See Serials, Cereals & Premiums.)
SEP 30 1941   Noted songwriters Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen withdraw from ASCAP and release their new material through BMI. 
SEP 30 1941   Representatives of the government, Rockefeller Foundation and manu-facturers meet to discuss former NBC President Miles Aylesworth’s idea to flood South America with low cost radios to pick up U.S. shortwave broadcasts. 
SEP 30 1941  Sponsor Johnson Wax adds 30 stations to NBC’s network for Fibber McGee & Molly resulting in one of the largest commercial networks ever assembled for a regularly scheduled program - 129 stations. (See Fibber McGee Minus Molly and Tuesday’s All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 30 1942  Gillette sponsors Mutual’s coverage of the World Series on over 300 U.S. and Canadian stations plus on shortwave to Armed Forces overseas. Transcriptions of the broadcasts are also sent to 500 overseas military camps unable to pick up the shortwave broadcasts.
SEP 30 1942  Mel Allen, 29, joins Red Barber in Mutual’s World Series coverage, replac-ing Bob Elson who left for World War II duty with the Navy.
SEP 30 1942  Eddie Cantor’s Time To Smile featuring Dinah Shore and Bert Gordon on NBC begins a two month schedule of originating from West Coast military bases.  (See The Two Stooges.)
SEP 30 1942  A faulty line connection to the Blue Network from a Milwaukee ballroom is blamed for the complete loss of Coca Cola’s Spotlight Bands broadcast featuring the Sammy Kaye orchestra.  (See Spotlight Bands.)
SEP 30 1943  Decca, World and Empire Records sign with the AFM, guaranteeing a royalty for every disc pressed. (See Petrillo!)
SEP 30 1943   New York Congressman Martin Kennedy proposes a Constitutional amendment that, “Congress shall make no law that abridges the freedom of speech by radio or wire communication.”
SEP 30 1944  Television advertising for Ingersoll Watches, Textron and Carter Undergarments, Elizabeth Arden Cosmetics and McCall’s magazine is demonstrated in a 75 minute program for department store executives by WRGB(TV)/Schenectady.
SEP 30 1945  Acting on orders from musicians union boss James Petrillo, Artie Shaw’s orchestra refuses to appear on NBC’s Fitch Bandwagon due to labor disputes at the network’s New Orleans and Chattanooga affiliates.
SEP 30 1946  U.S. Government files charges of breaking four federal laws against musicians union boss James Petrillo  for his calling a strike against WAAF/Chicago. (See Petrillo!)
SEP 30 1946  CBS introduces Showcase Time, a short series of half-hour exposures for network developed shows on weekdays at 5:30 and 11:30 p.m.  
SEP 30 1946   The Radio Manufacturers’ Association reports that 3,242 television sets were manufactured in September, a sharp increase from the mere 225 during the first eight months of the year.
SEP 30 1947  Mutual boasts over 564 stations carrying its World Series broadcasts in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Armed Forces Radio.
SEP 30 1947   Ford and Gillette pay $65,000 for the first television rights to the World Series, broadcast on all eight East Coast stations affiliated with NBC, CBS and DuMont.
SEP 30 1947  General Foods underwrites a five week test of Mutual’s Meet The Press on WNBT(TV)/New York City.
SEP 30 1948   FCC orders a “...temporary freeze...of six to nine months or possibly longer”...on 303 new television station construction permits pending before it but not affecting the 37 existing stations or the 86 under construction. (The “temporary” freeze lasts 43 months.)
SEP 30 1948   With the removal of television applications, the FCC announces an eight month hearing agenda of 238 new AM and FM station applications.
SEP 30 1949  Future CBS 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney is paired with humorist Charlie Slocum to write material for Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts.  (See Monday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 30 1949   AVCO’s Crosley Broadcasting, which bought WINS/New York from Hearst Broadcasting for $1,700,000 in 1946, sells the station to the owners of WHOM/Jersey City for $512,500.
SEP 30 1949  Manufacturers report a record 224,532 television sets were produced in September.
SEP 30 1950  Mutual Sports Director Paul Jonas is injured in an Ohio private plane crash that killed the pilot.
SEP 30 1950  General Foods moves its transcribed Hopalong Cassidy series from Mutual to CBS for two highly rated seasons.
SEP 30 1950   DuMont Television assembles the largest “live” TV network to date - 41 stations for Notre Dame home football games from South Bend.. (See Dr. DuMont’s Predictions.)
SEP 30 1951  Newscaster Edwin C. Hill, 67, makes his final multi-network move to CBS for a 26 week run on Sunday afternoons.  
SEP 30 1951   Phil Harris & Alice Faye’s Sunday night sitcom on NBC is moved up to 8:00 p.m. to give Harris time to commute from his appearances at CBS on Jack Benny’s 7:00 p.m. program.  (See Sunday's All Time Top Ten.)
SEP 30 1951  Jim & Marian Jordan as Fibber McGee & Molly, host NBC’s Jubilee Show, the first of three commemorative broadcasts celebrating the network’s 25th anniversary.
SEP 30 1951   Eddie Cantor’s Colgate Comedy Hour on NBC-TV becomes the first commercial television show transmitted live from the West Coast to the rest of the country.
SEP 30 1951   Red Skelton makes his long awaited debut on television with a 30 minute variety show on NBC-TV.
SEP 30 1952  Herb Shriner’s comedy quiz Two For The Money begins its four year multi-network run.
SEP 30 1952  Wyllis-Overland Motors signs a $1.0 Million contract with CBS to sponsor the Sunday afternoon broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic orchestra.  
SEP 30 1952  Merlin “Deac” Aylsworth, first President of NBC, dies after a long illness at age 66.
SEP 30 1953  AT&T reports 41 television stations in 35 cities were added to network connections in September, resulting in a total to date of 199 stations in 127 cities.
SEP 30 1953  NBC’s owned and operated television stations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington and Cleveland begin an advertising campaign to promote NBC Radio Network programs in their cities.
 
                                                           GLOSSARY

AAAA = American Association of Advertising Agencies - ABC = American Broadcasting Company - ACLU = American Civil Liberties Union - AFL = American Federation of Labor - AFM = American Federation of Musicians  - AFRA = American Federation of Radio Artists - AFRS = Armed Forces Radio Service - AFTRA = American Federation of Radio & Television Artists - AGVA = American Guild of Variety Artists - ANA = Association of National Advertisers - ANPA = American Newspaper Publishers Association - AP = Associated Press  - ARB = American Research Bureau - ASCAP = American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers - BBC = British Broadcasting Corporation - BMB = Broadcast Measurement Bureau - BMI = Broadcast Music, Inc. - CAB = Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting - CBC = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - CBS = Columbia Broadcasting System - CIO = Congress of Industrial Organizations - CST = Central Standard Time - CWA = Communications Workers of America - EST = Eastern Standard Time - FCC = Federal Communications Commission  - FRC = Federal Radio Commission - FTC = Federal Trade Commission -  IAPTA = International Allied Printing Trades Association - IATSE = International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees - IBEW = International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers - ILGWU = International Ladies Garment Workers Union - INS = International News Service - IRS = Internal Revenue Service - LBS = Liberty Broadcasting System - MBS = Mutual Broadcasting System -  MCA = Music Corporation of America - MST = Mountain Standard Time - NAB = National Association of Broadcasters - NABET = National Association of Broadcast Employees & Technicians - NARBA = North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement - NARTB = National Association of Radio & Television Broadcasters, (fka NAB) - NBC = National Broadcasting Company - NCAA = National Collegiate Athletic Association - NLRB = National Labor Relations Board - PST = Pacific Standard Time - PTA = Parent Teachers Association - RCA = Radio Corporation of America - RMA = Radio Manufacturers Association - SAG = Screen Actors Guild - SESAC = Society of European Stage Authors & Composers - SPCA = Society for The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - TVA = The Television Authority (union) - UAW = United Auto Workers - UP = United Press - VFW = Veterans of Foreign Wars - WPA = Works Progress Administration

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