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The Golden Years of Radio
1932-1933
Read This Season's Synopsis Here!
Then Click the Link to the Left to Read the Whole Article!
(There are many more fascinating
facts and stories beyond these headlines) |
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GOld Time Radio chronicles
each of the 21 broadcast seasons, (September through June),
from Network Radio’s Golden Age, 1932 to 1953. The lengthy
and informative profiles of each season are concluded with
an exclusive review of their Top 50 Prime Time Programs, as
determined by Crossly, Hooper or Nielsen rating services.).
Each synopsis links to the full and detailed
article. |
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THE 1932-33 SEASON
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We Want
Cantor...
The 1932-33 Season 1st In A Series
In The Beginning...
Broadcasting’s streets were
truly
paved with gold at the start of
Network Radio’s
Golden Age in 1932. |
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Sixty percent of America’s
homes were equipped with radios by the 1932-33 season,
all hungry for the free entertainment that the networks
offered them - and offered to sponsors at an average
$11,000 per prime time hour. … Fred Allen,
Al Jolson
and The Marx Brothers made their network series debuts
in the fall of 1932. They joined Eddie Cantor, Jack
Benny, Jack Pearl, Ed Wynn and
George Burns & Gracie
Allen, who had made earlier and briefer appearances
before committing to full season series in 1932-33 ...
The stars were joined during the season by the first
nationwide network broadcasts of the long running
Carnation Contented Hour, The Fred Waring Show,
Vic &
Sade and One Man’s Family … The personality who would
dominate Network Radio’s early years took to the air on
March 12, 1933, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered
his first Fireside Chat on all three networks.
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The Lindbergh baby was kidnapped on March 1, 1932, and
the air was saturated with bulletins and updates. By
September, the search for the culprit had received heavy
radio coverage for over six months and it would continue
until Bruno Hauptmann was arrested a year later in
September, 1934.
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Newspapers found themselves repeatedly and increasingly
scooped by radio.
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NBC aired the Number One show in all ten months of the
1932-33 season.
- Sunday was home to radio’s most popular program -
Eddie
Cantor’s Chase & Sanborn Hour was the top rated show for
each of the six months it was broadcast, November
through April.
- Texaco Fire Chief Ed Wynn took the top spot in
September, October and June when Cantor was on hiatus.
- Jack Pearl peaked at Number One in May - his first and
only monthly win.
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