This episode was originally released on 10/1/2020. While new episodes of Breaking Walls are on hiatus I'll be going back and posting the older episodes.

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In Breaking Walls episode 108 we go back to October 31st, 1948 and open a five-part mini series on that season’s business and programming.

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Highlights:

• You Are There

• Dewey V Truman

• Let’s Sit This One Out

• Halloween 1948 in New York over the Mutual Broadcasting System

• Ozzie and Harriet Visit a Haunted House

• Jack Benny Goes Trick-or-Treating for a New Network

• Phil Harris and Alice Faye

• Sam Spade, Rocky Jordan, and Connie Brooks

• Walter Winchell Spits Fire

• Cabin B-13

• A Tremendous Election Upset

• Looking Ahead to Thanksgiving 1948

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The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• Sunday Nights at Seven — By Jack and Joan Benny

• On the Air — By John Dunning

• Network Radio Ratings, 1932-53 — By Jim Ramsburg

• WOR Radio 1922-1982

As well as articles from the archives of

• The Los Angeles Times

• The New York Daily News

• The New York Times

• Radio Daily

• The Saturday Evening Post.

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On the interview front:

• Eve Arden, Jack Benny, Alice Faye, Phil Harris, Elliott Lewis, Bret Morrison, and Lurene Tuttle were with Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingOfRadio.com.

• Hans Conried, Howard Duff, and June Havoc were with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear these at Goldenage-WTIC.org.

• Dick Joy spoke with John Dunning for 71KNUS.

• Ben Grauer spoke with Westinghouse in 1970.

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Selected music featured in today’s episode was:

• Danse Macabre — by Camille Saint-Saëns (Camille San Sons)

• I’ll Take Manhattan — By Blossom Dearie

• Ghost Bus Tours — By George Fenton

• The Look of Love — By Nelson Riddle

• Verdi’s Macbeth Overture — Conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli

• Flag of Columbia — By Jacqueline Schwab

• Over The River and Through The Woods — By the U.S. Air Force Band