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This audio excerpt of MONITOR is from the 1956 first anniversary broadcast. When Monitor began on June 12, 1955 at 4pm, the first hour of the program was simulcast on NBC-TV. That initial June 12 broadcast lasted eight hours, from 4pm through 12 midnight. Following the Monitor beacon, Morgan Beatty was the first voice ever heard on Monitor. After an introduction by Pat Weaver, news headlines by Dave Garroway and a routine by Bob and Ray, Garroway cued Monitor's opening music remote: live jazz by Howard Rumsey and the Lighthouse All-Stars at the Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach, California. It was the first of many jazz remotes in the weeks to come.

1956 Monitor was a U.S. weekend radio program broadcast from June 12, 1955 until January 26, 1975. Airing live and nationwide on the NBC Radio Network, it originally aired beginning Saturday morning at 8am and continuing through the weekend until 12 midnight on Sunday. However, after the first few months, the full weekend broadcast was shortened when the midnight-to-dawn hours were dropped since few NBC stations carried it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_(radio_program)

Episode 2812 aired January 24, 1951. "Tonto" voiced regularly by John Todd replaced on this episode.  The Apaches plan to attack an army wagon train carrying money and supplies for the settlers, with the help of evil white men. Early profile photo of Brace Beemer, radio's most popular voice of The Lone Ranger.

STAMITZ Symphony No 1  - SCHUBERT  Musical Moments - MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 4

Episode 11, September 12, 1950. Martha Britt is a school teacher for the Indians and tries to prevent a second Comanche war.  The Nescalosa plains stretch to the horizon and the Squat settlement is in the center of those pine covered hills of the Indian reservation and far in the distance beyond the white sands of the desert is the flat top tableland called Red Rock Mesa. Hoppy and California assist the teacher to bring education to the Squat children.

Episode 12 aired March 2, 1951 on CBS Radio. Hear It Now, an American radio program on CBS, began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 pm Eastern Time.

WMAQ, Chicago aircheck The Bob Arbogast Show evening of November 1, 1951. The Arbogast program contained comedy and satire on WMAQ from 1951-54, he went on to become a writer and voice-over performer on the West Coast. He was born April 1,  1927. He died March 21, 2009 at age 81.

Episode 25 aired on CBS Radio May 10, 1959. Starring John Dehner. Paladin wants to retrieve a church's holy relic from a poverty-stricken rancher.

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October 27, 1952 on CBS Radio. Matt Dillon, US Marshall, has to serve papers on woman who refuses to leave land for development of THE RAILROAD.

Episode 25 aired on CBS Radio July 15, 1956. A trooper from Captain Quince's past. Patchen, joins the troop and creates stress. Raymond Burr stars as Captain Lee Quince in another saga of fighting men who rode the rim of empire.