This episode was originally released on 2/1/2021. 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 112, we finish our five-part mini-series by examining NBC’s business and programming during the 1949-50 radio season in the wake of the CBS talent raids by examining the steps NBC took to regain their footing as the television era began.

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Highlights:

• Garroway

• Frank Sinatra’s Tailspin

• Monday Night of Music

• Ivy College and their Hallowed Halls

• Christopher London vs. Jack Benny

• Randy Stone Prowls Chicago’s Night

• Dimension X and Arnold Moss

• Cloak and Dagger

• Vincent Price and Simon Templar

• Looking Ahead to Elliott Lewis

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The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• On the Air — By John Dunning

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

As well as articles from the archives of:

• Broadcasting Magazine

• Radio Daily

• Variety

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On the interview front:

• Ken Carpenter, Dave Garroway, Jim Jordan, Phil Leslie, Vincent Price, Lurene Tuttle, and Herb Vigran were with Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingOfRadio.com.

• Raymond Edward Johnson, Arnold Moss, Vincent Price, and Bill Robson were with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear these at Goldenage-WTIC.org.

• Lawrence Dobkin and Elliott Lewis were with SPERDVAC. For more information, go to SPERDVAC.com.

• Don Quinn was interviewed by Owen Cunningham in 1951,

• Frank Sinatra was with Walter Cronkite in 1965,

• Lurene Tuttle spoke with Same Time, Same Station in 1972.

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Selected music featured in today’s episode was:

• I Can Dream, Can't I — By The Andrews Sisters

• Salute to Charlie Christian — By Barney Kessel

• Holo Holo Haa — With Lani McIntyre

• It All Depends on You — By Frank Sinatra

• The Look of Love — By Billy May

• Moon Moods — By Les Baxter

• Spooky — By Dusty Springfield