Breaking Walls

In Breaking Walls Episode 76, we pick up our story on the history of American dramatic radio after the sinking of the Titanic in April of 1912.

The time between 1912 and 1922 saw three competing interests battle for control of the wireless airwaves as wireless telegraphy transitioned into radio broadcasting. These three interests were big private business, individual HAM radio operators, and the US Government.

Highlights:

• How the Titanic’s Sinking changed Guglielmo Marconi’s business

• The Radio Act of 1912 - What it portended

• Charles Herrold and KCBS San Francisco

• Lee Deforest sells out to AT&T

• Edwin Howard Armstrong invents regeneration, and later the superheterodyne receiver

• War comes to Europe

• The Navy takes over wireless

• How World War I caused radio technology to boom

• AT&T, Westinghouse, General Electric, and the newly formed RCA make a deal

• David Sarnoff’s Rise to power

• KDKA and the birth of regular broadcasting

• Todays’ introduction music of Metamorphosis No. 2 was arranged for harp and vibraphone by David DePeters and played by Elizabeth Hainen. You can pick up her album, Home: Works for Solo Harp on iTunes and Amazon, and listen on Spotify and Pandora. Her website is ElizabethHainen.com and she is on youtube @Elizabethhainenharp

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

Special thanks to our Sponsor The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society

http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/series/themorls/

The reading material for today’s episode was:

Inventing American Broadcasting 1899-1922 by Susan J. Douglas

Empire of the Air by Tom Lewis

A Pictorial History of Radio’s First 75 Years by B. Eric Rhoads

Hello Everybody! The Dawn of American Radio by Anthony Rudel &

The Network by Scott Woolley

A Special Thank you to:

Rebecca Shield

and Nancy Pop who’s website is - http://www.nancympop.com

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - http://patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - http://thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

In Breaking Walls Episode 76, we pick up our story on the history of American dramatic radio after the sinking of the Titanic in April of 1912.

The time between 1912 and 1922 saw three competing interests battle for control of the wireless airwaves as wireless telegraphy transitioned into radio broadcasting. These three interests were big private business, individual HAM radio operators, and the US Government.

Highlights:

• How the Titanic’s Sinking changed Guglielmo Marconi’s business

• The Radio Act of 1912 - What it portended

• Charles Herrold and KCBS San Francisco

• Lee Deforest sells out to AT&T

• Edwin Howard Armstrong invents regeneration, and later the superheterodyne receiver

• War comes to Europe

• The Navy takes over wireless

• How World War I caused radio technology to boom

• AT&T, Westinghouse, General Electric, and the newly formed RCA make a deal

• David Sarnoff’s Rise to power

• KDKA and the birth of regular broadcasting

• Todays’ introduction music of Metamorphosis No. 2 was arranged for harp and vibraphone by David DePeters and played by Elizabeth Hainen. You can pick up her album, Home: Works for Solo Harp on iTunes and Amazon, and listen on Spotify and Pandora. Her website is ElizabethHainen.com and she is on youtube @Elizabethhainenharp

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

Special thanks to our Sponsor The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society

http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/series/themorls/

The reading material for today’s episode was:

Inventing American Broadcasting 1899-1922 by Susan J. Douglas

Empire of the Air by Tom Lewis

A Pictorial History of Radio’s First 75 Years by B. Eric Rhoads

Hello Everybody! The Dawn of American Radio by Anthony Rudel &

The Network by Scott Woolley

A Special Thank you to:

Rebecca Shield

and Nancy Pop who’s website is - http://www.nancympop.com

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - http://patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - http://thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

In Breaking Walls Episode 75 we go back in time to the beginning of radio to tell the story of how this medium began.

Highlights:

* Why the Blizzard of 1888 played such an important role in the need for wireless telegraphy

* Who Was Heinrich Hertz? What experiment made him the father of Hertzian Waves?

* What Oliver Lodge, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, and Amos DollBear have in common

* Guglielmo Marconi, father of radio?

* The benefits to wireless telegraphy

* David Sarnoff — His start between 1900 - 1906

* Why the press want to get involved

* Lee Deforest — Inventor, Fraud, or both?

* What incredibly important event happened in December of 1901 in New Foundland

* Why the American Government wanted to regulate wireless telegraphy

* Reginald Fessenden, Christmas Eve, Oh Holy Night, and Brant Rock

* The Titanic Disaster — How it changed wireless telegraphy forever

* The Radio Box Memo

* What’s next?

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

Background information:

Prior to television, people tuned in to Radio to hear their favorite comedies, thrillers, westerns, high-adventure dramas, soap operas, kids shows, and melodramas, along with the talk, news, music, and sports that still dominate the airwaves.

Radio Drama on the major networks of NBC, CBS, and ABC mostly went out after the growth of television in the 1950s and the story of this industry isn’t widely known to the general american public.

Going forward, Breaking Walls will tell the story of this medium, which still influences our entertainment patters today. We’ll start at the beginning of radio and move through the rise of the networks, the growth of programming, how the great depression and world war II influenced the country, why radio declined during the growth of TV, what happened to its stars and the people who worked at the recording studios after radio drama went out in the late 1950s and early 1960s, why fans began collecting shows, how this helped save countless hours of broadcasts, and where we can go next.

A tremendous thank you to today’s cast:

Samantha De Gracia

Olga Lysenko

Justin Peele

Nancy Pop

Fernando Sanabria

William Schallert &

John Stephenson

Today's Sponsor:

http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/series/themorls/

The interview clips in today’s open:

Chuck Schaden, who’s interviews can be found at http://www.speakingofradio.com and

Dick Bertel and the late Ed Corcoran’s Golden Age of Radio program that ran on Hartford, CT’s WTIC in the 1970s, who’s interviews can be found at http://otrrlibrary.org

The reading material for today’s episode was:

• Inventing American Broadcasting 1899-1922 by Susan J. Douglas

• Empire of the Air by Tom Lewis

• A Pictorial History of Radio’s First 75 Years by B. Eric Rhoads

• Hello Everybody! The Dawn of American Radio by Anthony Rudel &

• The Network by Scott Woolley

• Todays’ introduction music of Clair de lune was arranged for harp and vibraphone by David DePeters and played by Elizabeth Hainen. You can pick up her album, Home: Works for Solo Harp on iTunes and Amazon, and listen on Spotify and Pandora. Her website is ElizabethHainen.com and she is on youtube @Elizabethhainenharp

I’d also like to extend a tremendous thank you to Walden Hughes, and John and Larry Gassman, three old-time radio enthusiasts who host their own old-time radio program through the Yesterday USA Radio Network, which you can visit at http://www.yesterdayusa.com. They’ve put me in touch with many golden age enthusiasts, and given me access to a lot of reading and audio material.

That thank you also extends to the late Les Tremayne and late Jack Brown for their wonderful 1986 documentary series, Please Stand By: A History of Radio.

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

A Special Thank you to:

Rebecca Shield

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - http://patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

In Breaking Walls Episode 75 we go back in time to the beginning of radio to tell the story of how this medium began.

Highlights:

* Why the Blizzard of 1888 played such an important role in the need for wireless telegraphy

* Who Was Heinrich Hertz? What experiment made him the father of Hertzian Waves?

* What Oliver Lodge, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, and Amos DollBear have in common

* Guglielmo Marconi, father of radio?

* The benefits to wireless telegraphy

* David Sarnoff — His start between 1900 - 1906

* Why the press want to get involved

* Lee Deforest — Inventor, Fraud, or both?

* What incredibly important event happened in December of 1901 in New Foundland

* Why the American Government wanted to regulate wireless telegraphy

* Reginald Fessenden, Christmas Eve, Oh Holy Night, and Brant Rock

* The Titanic Disaster — How it changed wireless telegraphy forever

* The Radio Box Memo

* What’s next?

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

Background information:

Prior to television, people tuned in to Radio to hear their favorite comedies, thrillers, westerns, high-adventure dramas, soap operas, kids shows, and melodramas, along with the talk, news, music, and sports that still dominate the airwaves.

Radio Drama on the major networks of NBC, CBS, and ABC mostly went out after the growth of television in the 1950s and the story of this industry isn’t widely known to the general american public.

Going forward, Breaking Walls will tell the story of this medium, which still influences our entertainment patters today. We’ll start at the beginning of radio and move through the rise of the networks, the growth of programming, how the great depression and world war II influenced the country, why radio declined during the growth of TV, what happened to its stars and the people who worked at the recording studios after radio drama went out in the late 1950s and early 1960s, why fans began collecting shows, how this helped save countless hours of broadcasts, and where we can go next.

A tremendous thank you to today’s cast:

Samantha De Gracia

Olga Lysenko

Justin Peele

Nancy Pop

Fernando Sanabria

William Schallert &

John Stephenson

Today's Sponsor:

http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/series/themorls/

The interview clips in today’s open:

Chuck Schaden, who’s interviews can be found at http://www.speakingofradio.com and

Dick Bertel and the late Ed Corcoran’s Golden Age of Radio program that ran on Hartford, CT’s WTIC in the 1970s, who’s interviews can be found at http://otrrlibrary.org

The reading material for today’s episode was:

• Inventing American Broadcasting 1899-1922 by Susan J. Douglas

• Empire of the Air by Tom Lewis

• A Pictorial History of Radio’s First 75 Years by B. Eric Rhoads

• Hello Everybody! The Dawn of American Radio by Anthony Rudel &

• The Network by Scott Woolley

• Todays’ introduction music of Clair de lune was arranged for harp and vibraphone by David DePeters and played by Elizabeth Hainen. You can pick up her album, Home: Works for Solo Harp on iTunes and Amazon, and listen on Spotify and Pandora. Her website is ElizabethHainen.com and she is on youtube @Elizabethhainenharp

I’d also like to extend a tremendous thank you to Walden Hughes, and John and Larry Gassman, three old-time radio enthusiasts who host their own old-time radio program through the Yesterday USA Radio Network, which you can visit at http://www.yesterdayusa.com. They’ve put me in touch with many golden age enthusiasts, and given me access to a lot of reading and audio material.

That thank you also extends to the late Les Tremayne and late Jack Brown for their wonderful 1986 documentary series, Please Stand By: A History of Radio.

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

A Special Thank you to:

Rebecca Shield

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - http://patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

In Breaking Walls Episode 75 we go back in time to the beginning of radio to tell the story of how this medium began.

Highlights:

* Why the Blizzard of 1888 played such an important role in the need for wireless telegraphy

* Who Was Heinrich Hertz? What experiment made him the father of Hertzian Waves?

* What Oliver Lodge, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, and Amos DollBear have in common

* Guglielmo Marconi, father of radio?

* The benefits to wireless telegraphy

* David Sarnoff — His start between 1900 - 1906

* Why the press want to get involved

* Lee Deforest — Inventor, Fraud, or both?

* What incredibly important event happened in December of 1901 in New Foundland

* Why the American Government wanted to regulate wireless telegraphy

* Reginald Fessenden, Christmas Eve, Oh Holy Night, and Brant Rock

* The Titanic Disaster — How it changed wireless telegraphy forever

* The Radio Box Memo

* What’s next?

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

Background information:

Prior to television, people tuned in to Radio to hear their favorite comedies, thrillers, westerns, high-adventure dramas, soap operas, kids shows, and melodramas, along with the talk, news, music, and sports that still dominate the airwaves.

Radio Drama on the major networks of NBC, CBS, and ABC mostly went out after the growth of television in the 1950s and the story of this industry isn’t widely known to the general american public.

Going forward, Breaking Walls will tell the story of this medium, which still influences our entertainment patters today. We’ll start at the beginning of radio and move through the rise of the networks, the growth of programming, how the great depression and world war II influenced the country, why radio declined during the growth of TV, what happened to its stars and the people who worked at the recording studios after radio drama went out in the late 1950s and early 1960s, why fans began collecting shows, how this helped save countless hours of broadcasts, and where we can go next.

A tremendous thank you to today’s cast:

Samantha De Gracia

Olga Lysenko

Justin Peele

Nancy Pop

Fernando Sanabria

William Schallert &

John Stephenson

Today's Sponsor:

http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/series/themorls/

The interview clips in today’s open:

Chuck Schaden, who’s interviews can be found at http://www.speakingofradio.com and

Dick Bertel and the late Ed Corcoran’s Golden Age of Radio program that ran on Hartford, CT’s WTIC in the 1970s, who’s interviews can be found at http://otrrlibrary.org

The reading material for today’s episode was:

• Inventing American Broadcasting 1899-1922 by Susan J. Douglas

• Empire of the Air by Tom Lewis

• A Pictorial History of Radio’s First 75 Years by B. Eric Rhoads

• Hello Everybody! The Dawn of American Radio by Anthony Rudel &

• The Network by Scott Woolley

• Todays’ introduction music of Clair de lune was arranged for harp and vibraphone by David DePeters and played by Elizabeth Hainen. You can pick up her album, Home: Works for Solo Harp on iTunes and Amazon, and listen on Spotify and Pandora. Her website is ElizabethHainen.com and she is on youtube @Elizabethhainenharp

I’d also like to extend a tremendous thank you to Walden Hughes, and John and Larry Gassman, three old-time radio enthusiasts who host their own old-time radio program through the Yesterday USA Radio Network, which you can visit at http://www.yesterdayusa.com. They’ve put me in touch with many golden age enthusiasts, and given me access to a lot of reading and audio material.

That thank you also extends to the late Les Tremayne and late Jack Brown for their wonderful 1986 documentary series, Please Stand By: A History of Radio.

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

A Special Thank you to:

Rebecca Shield

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - http://patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

In Breaking Walls episode 74, we celebrate the WallBreakers’ 6th birthday with an anniversary extravaganza!

First, we’ll chat with the creator of the 1970s radio drama The Zero Hour, Mr. Jay M. Kholos.

Then, a portion of a recent conversation with the author of The Who Is Johnny Dollar Matter, Mr. John C. Abbott.

If you’ve been listening to this podcast, you know that for the past year I’ve been producing mini-documentaries on moments in American radio history. Episode 72 was on Yours Truly Johnny Dollar and the death of American dramatic radio on the Major Networks, and episode was on 73 on the attempted 1970s-1980s major network dramatic revival. If you haven’t heard episodes 72 or 73, I’d recommend going back and listening to them for story continuity.

And it’s along those lines that I’m proud to say the next episode of Breaking Walls, on February 15th, 2018 will be our 75th episode.

On this upcoming episode, Breaking Walls will take on a new long-term story arc: A chronological history of the American Radio Drama.

For anyone who doesn’t know what Radio Drama was… At one time, radio wasn’t just for talk and music. Prior to television people tuned into the radio to hear their favorite shows. In fact, many of the most popular shows on television in the 1950s were extensions of their radio versions.

This first episode of the documentary, episode 75 of Breaking Walls, will start at the beginning of radio in the late 19th century and work through the end of the first decade of the 20th century. Why those two points in time? Well… you’ll have to tune in to find out!

To support the show for as little as $1 per month and receive all kinds of BTS material, please go to patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

Jay M. Kholos’ Hightlights:

• How Jay got his start in the advertising industry

• Why he’s got such an entrepreneurial spirit

• Where the idea to relaunch radio drama came from

• How nostalgia has influenced Jay’s creative endeavors

• Why you can’t make creative decisions by committee

• Where the inspiration for Orchard Street productions came from

• How Jay tabbed The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling as the host of The Zero Hour

• A funny Rod Serling story involving an airplane

• Production highlights from Elliot Lewis and Patty Duke

• How AFTRA influenced Jay’s decision to make a distribution deal with The Mutual Broadcasting System

• Why Mutual’s Zero Hour was so disappointing

• Jay and Elliot Lewis’ Mutual Respect

• What’s next for Jay

As Jay mentioned, the Mizner Park Cultural Center in Boca Raton, Florida will be the site for his Orchard Street Production of Golda’s Balcony from May 2nd through the 13th of 2018. You can find out more information at http://miznerparkculturalcenter.com

Editor's Correction:

There are Old-Time Radio Conventions on the West Coast that feature actors who worked during in the Golden days of radio.

SPERDVAC http://sperdvac.com will have an old-time radio convention starting on Thursday 11-1-18 and runs all day Friday 11-2-18 and Saturday 11-3-18. This year will be at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at 3131 Bristol Street, Costa Mesa, CA 92626.

The other big old time radio convention is produce by REPS go to http://www.repsonline.org

Collector, writer, and Old-Time Radio enthusiast Martin Grams runs a nostalgia convention in MD with old time radio panels and radio drama re-creations.

John C. Abbott’s Highlights:

• Growing up a baby boomer at the beginning of Television

• Thoughts on Bob Bailey as a Tragic Figure

• Why a show like Yours Truly Johnny Dollar was able to survive as long as it did

• John’s thoughts on Jack Johnstone

• Differences between radio drama preservation in New York and Hollywood

• Why John is revising his book, The Who Is Johnny Dollar Matter

• When the revised edition will hit book stores

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - http://patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - http://thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - http://jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

In Breaking Walls episode 74, we celebrate the WallBreakers’ 6th birthday with an anniversary extravaganza!

First, we’ll chat with the creator of the 1970s radio drama The Zero Hour, Mr. Jay M. Kholos.

Then, a portion of a recent conversation with the author of The Who Is Johnny Dollar Matter, Mr. John C. Abbott.

If you’ve been listening to this podcast, you know that for the past year I’ve been producing mini-documentaries on moments in American radio history. Episode 72 was on Yours Truly Johnny Dollar and the death of American dramatic radio on the Major Networks, and episode was on 73 on the attempted 1970s-1980s major network dramatic revival. If you haven’t heard episodes 72 or 73, I’d recommend going back and listening to them for story continuity.

And it’s along those lines that I’m proud to say the next episode of Breaking Walls, on February 15th, 2018 will be our 75th episode.

On this upcoming episode, Breaking Walls will take on a new long-term story arc: A chronological history of the American Radio Drama.

For anyone who doesn’t know what Radio Drama was… At one time, radio wasn’t just for talk and music. Prior to television people tuned into the radio to hear their favorite shows. In fact, many of the most popular shows on television in the 1950s were extensions of their radio versions.

This first episode of the documentary, episode 75 of Breaking Walls, will start at the beginning of radio in the late 19th century and work through the end of the first decade of the 20th century. Why those two points in time? Well… you’ll have to tune in to find out!

To support the show for as little as $1 per month and receive all kinds of BTS material, please go to patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

Jay M. Kholos’ Hightlights:

• How Jay got his start in the advertising industry

• Why he’s got such an entrepreneurial spirit

• Where the idea to relaunch radio drama came from

• How nostalgia has influenced Jay’s creative endeavors

• Why you can’t make creative decisions by committee

• Where the inspiration for Orchard Street productions came from

• How Jay tabbed The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling as the host of The Zero Hour

• A funny Rod Serling story involving an airplane

• Production highlights from Elliot Lewis and Patty Duke

• How AFTRA influenced Jay’s decision to make a distribution deal with The Mutual Broadcasting System

• Why Mutual’s Zero Hour was so disappointing

• Jay and Elliot Lewis’ Mutual Respect

• What’s next for Jay

As Jay mentioned, the Mizner Park Cultural Center in Boca Raton, Florida will be the site for his Orchard Street Production of Golda’s Balcony from May 2nd through the 13th of 2018. You can find out more information at http://miznerparkculturalcenter.com

Editor's Correction:

There are Old-Time Radio Conventions on the West Coast that feature actors who worked during in the Golden days of radio.

SPERDVAC http://sperdvac.com will have an old-time radio convention starting on Thursday 11-1-18 and runs all day Friday 11-2-18 and Saturday 11-3-18. This year will be at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at 3131 Bristol Street, Costa Mesa, CA 92626.

The other big old time radio convention is produce by REPS go to http://www.repsonline.org

Collector, writer, and Old-Time Radio enthusiast Martin Grams runs a nostalgia convention in MD with old time radio panels and radio drama re-creations.

John C. Abbott’s Highlights:

• Growing up a baby boomer at the beginning of Television

• Thoughts on Bob Bailey as a Tragic Figure

• Why a show like Yours Truly Johnny Dollar was able to survive as long as it did

• John’s thoughts on Jack Johnstone

• Differences between radio drama preservation in New York and Hollywood

• Why John is revising his book, The Who Is Johnny Dollar Matter

• When the revised edition will hit book stores

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - http://patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - http://thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - http://jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

In Breaking Walls episode 74, we celebrate the WallBreakers’ 6th birthday with an anniversary extravaganza!

First, we’ll chat with the creator of the 1970s radio drama The Zero Hour, Mr. Jay M. Kholos.

Then, a portion of a recent conversation with the author of The Who Is Johnny Dollar Matter, Mr. John C. Abbott.

If you’ve been listening to this podcast, you know that for the past year I’ve been producing mini-documentaries on moments in American radio history. Episode 72 was on Yours Truly Johnny Dollar and the death of American dramatic radio on the Major Networks, and episode was on 73 on the attempted 1970s-1980s major network dramatic revival. If you haven’t heard episodes 72 or 73, I’d recommend going back and listening to them for story continuity.

And it’s along those lines that I’m proud to say the next episode of Breaking Walls, on February 15th, 2018 will be our 75th episode.

On this upcoming episode, Breaking Walls will take on a new long-term story arc: A chronological history of the American Radio Drama.

For anyone who doesn’t know what Radio Drama was… At one time, radio wasn’t just for talk and music. Prior to television people tuned into the radio to hear their favorite shows. In fact, many of the most popular shows on television in the 1950s were extensions of their radio versions.

This first episode of the documentary, episode 75 of Breaking Walls, will start at the beginning of radio in the late 19th century and work through the end of the first decade of the 20th century. Why those two points in time? Well… you’ll have to tune in to find out!

To support the show for as little as $1 per month and receive all kinds of BTS material, please go to patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

Jay M. Kholos’ Hightlights:

• How Jay got his start in the advertising industry

• Why he’s got such an entrepreneurial spirit

• Where the idea to relaunch radio drama came from

• How nostalgia has influenced Jay’s creative endeavors

• Why you can’t make creative decisions by committee

• Where the inspiration for Orchard Street productions came from

• How Jay tabbed The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling as the host of The Zero Hour

• A funny Rod Serling story involving an airplane

• Production highlights from Elliot Lewis and Patty Duke

• How AFTRA influenced Jay’s decision to make a distribution deal with The Mutual Broadcasting System

• Why Mutual’s Zero Hour was so disappointing

• Jay and Elliot Lewis’ Mutual Respect

• What’s next for Jay

As Jay mentioned, the Mizner Park Cultural Center in Boca Raton, Florida will be the site for his Orchard Street Production of Golda’s Balcony from May 2nd through the 13th of 2018. You can find out more information at http://miznerparkculturalcenter.com

Editor's Correction:

There are Old-Time Radio Conventions on the West Coast that feature actors who worked during in the Golden days of radio.

SPERDVAC http://sperdvac.com will have an old-time radio convention starting on Thursday 11-1-18 and runs all day Friday 11-2-18 and Saturday 11-3-18. This year will be at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at 3131 Bristol Street, Costa Mesa, CA 92626.

The other big old time radio convention is produce by REPS go to http://www.repsonline.org

Collector, writer, and Old-Time Radio enthusiast Martin Grams runs a nostalgia convention in MD with old time radio panels and radio drama re-creations.

John C. Abbott’s Highlights:

• Growing up a baby boomer at the beginning of Television

• Thoughts on Bob Bailey as a Tragic Figure

• Why a show like Yours Truly Johnny Dollar was able to survive as long as it did

• John’s thoughts on Jack Johnstone

• Differences between radio drama preservation in New York and Hollywood

• Why John is revising his book, The Who Is Johnny Dollar Matter

• When the revised edition will hit book stores

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - http://patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - http://thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - http://jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

In Breaking Walls Episode 73 we spotlight the 1970s CBS and Mutual Broadcasting dramatic radio revival and why it ultimately failed.

Highlights:



• Go Inside the November 1, 1973 Mutual Broadcasting closed circuit press conference from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City announcing Zero Hour


• How Jay M. Kholos came to create The Zero Hour

• How Elliot Lewis came to produce and direct the Zero Hour

• How Himan Brown got CBS to say yes to the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre

• Why Himan Brown wanted the Mystery Theatre on 7-nights per week

• Rod Serling’s feelings about radio

• How the AFRS furthered Howard Duff and Elliott Lewis’ lifelong friendship

• New storytelling methods for the 1970s

• New recording technology

• Why the Zero Hour had immediate Advertising difficulties

• How Tom Bosley of Happy Days got involved in the radio revival

• Why Sears paid $1.2 Million to get involved in dramatic radio in 1979

• What Richard Widmark, Cicely Tyson, Vincent Price, Lorne Greene, and Andy Griffith had in common

• Dramatic Radio of the 1980s

• Why the popularity of FM hurt The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre

• Major Network Dramatic Radio Comes to a close

• What’s next?

Beginning February 15th, 2018 Breaking Walls will be presenting the first in a long-term story arc: Chapter 1 on The History of American Dramatic Radio. To support the show for as little as $1 per month and receive all kinds of BTS material, please go to http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

Today’s episode of Breaking Walls could not have been possible without the interviews by Chuck Schaden, Dick Bertel, Ed Corcoran, SPERDVAC, and John Dunning.

• Chuck’s interviews are available at http://www.speakingofradio.com

• Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran’s interviews are at http://otrrlibrary.org by searching for The Golden Age of Radio program.

• John Dunning’s interviews are also located at http://otrrlibrary.org under “John Dunning interviews”

• The Society To Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety and Comedy can be found at http://sperdvac.com

The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning

• A Pictorial History of Radio’s First 75 Years by B. Eric Rhoads

• The Radio Career of Rod Serling by Martin Grams Jr’s

• The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Handbook by Martin Grams Jr’s and Gordon Payton

I’d like to thank them both for providing fantastic information that helped me put this episode together today.

as well as The Digital Deli’s page on the Mutual Radio Theater - http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Mutual-Radio-Theater.html

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - http://patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - http://thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

In Breaking Walls Episode 73 we spotlight the 1970s CBS and Mutual Broadcasting dramatic radio revival and why it ultimately failed.

Highlights:



• Go Inside the November 1, 1973 Mutual Broadcasting closed circuit press conference from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City announcing Zero Hour


• How Jay M. Kholos came to create The Zero Hour

• How Elliot Lewis came to produce and direct the Zero Hour

• How Himan Brown got CBS to say yes to the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre

• Why Himan Brown wanted the Mystery Theatre on 7-nights per week

• Rod Serling’s feelings about radio

• How the AFRS furthered Howard Duff and Elliott Lewis’ lifelong friendship

• New storytelling methods for the 1970s

• New recording technology

• Why the Zero Hour had immediate Advertising difficulties

• How Tom Bosley of Happy Days got involved in the radio revival

• Why Sears paid $1.2 Million to get involved in dramatic radio in 1979

• What Richard Widmark, Cicely Tyson, Vincent Price, Lorne Greene, and Andy Griffith had in common

• Dramatic Radio of the 1980s

• Why the popularity of FM hurt The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre

• Major Network Dramatic Radio Comes to a close

• What’s next?

Beginning February 15th, 2018 Breaking Walls will be presenting the first in a long-term story arc: Chapter 1 on The History of American Dramatic Radio. To support the show for as little as $1 per month and receive all kinds of BTS material, please go to http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

Today’s episode of Breaking Walls could not have been possible without the interviews by Chuck Schaden, Dick Bertel, Ed Corcoran, SPERDVAC, and John Dunning.

• Chuck’s interviews are available at http://www.speakingofradio.com

• Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran’s interviews are at http://otrrlibrary.org by searching for The Golden Age of Radio program.

• John Dunning’s interviews are also located at http://otrrlibrary.org under “John Dunning interviews”

• The Society To Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety and Comedy can be found at http://sperdvac.com

The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning

• A Pictorial History of Radio’s First 75 Years by B. Eric Rhoads

• The Radio Career of Rod Serling by Martin Grams Jr’s

• The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Handbook by Martin Grams Jr’s and Gordon Payton

I’d like to thank them both for providing fantastic information that helped me put this episode together today.

as well as The Digital Deli’s page on the Mutual Radio Theater - http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Mutual-Radio-Theater.html

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