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Episode 26 aired May 21, 1954 on NBC Radio. Wes Singer is planning to get into a gunfight with Britt Ponsett for reasons we do not yet know.

November 2, 1951. Doug Manson escapes from the courtroom where he's about to be sentenced, and swears revenge against those who testified against him.

CBS Radio Final broadcast November 1960. Using the premise that the Kingfish had set up a radio station in the Lodge Hall of the Mystic Knights of the Sea, Amos & Andy playing records between comic sketches and were often joined by a guest celebrity. Amos 'n' Andy is a situation comedy set in the African-American community. It was very popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 19...

Episode 6 March 13, 1950. Frank Lovejoy stars. Gig Sanders has broken out of jail. He wants to get even with one of his gang members that married his girlfriend. A policeman is killed in the escape. 

Dedication of NBC Los Angeles studios with Al Jolsen and Bing Crosby. Next Ed Wynn comedian, Nelson Eddy singer, FDR fireside chat, Conductor Walter Damrosh. Sisters of skillet comedians, Chamber Music Society of Basin Street and Dinah Shore sings.

1959 Hour segment of NBC's weekend radio service.

March 1945 Over CBS Radio from Chicago's College Inn Hotel. Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading groups called "The Herd", Herman came to prominence in the late 1930s and was active until his death in 1987. His bands often played music that was cutting edge and experimental for its time; their r...

WIBC interview with Museum of Broadcast Communications. How the Lone Ranger radio series was created along with The Mutual Radio Network.

CBS Radio, April 6, 1954. Edward R. Murrow performed one of the most famous acts of journalistic evisceration in American television history. On March 9th, 1954, Murrow—who was then perhaps the country's most highly revered journalist—devoted an entire episode of his CBS program "See it Now" to the words and deeds of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had already done much to earn his notorious place in...

August 17, 1955 Howard chats with singer Della Reese. Delloreese Patricia Early (July 6, 1931 – November 19, 2017), known professionally as Della Reese, was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister whose career spanned seven decades. She began her long career as a singer, scoring a hit with her 1959 single "Don't You Know?". In the late 1960s she hosted her own talk show,...

Aired July 5, 1954. From 1933 to 1956 the Lone Ranger rode the radio waves. One of the most successful radio programs in history, the Lone Ranger produced over 3,000 broadcasts. Few things are more iconic in American popular culture than announcer Fred Foy reciting those lines against the opening strains of the William Tell Overture. The Lone Ranger was a western adventure show that premiered in J...

FRED FOY reflects on his days as the announcer-narrator of The Lone Ranger radio series.

DJ Ira Cook plays some pop records from the mid 20th century including one of Vikki Carr's hit songs in this episode for AFRTS. Guest interview with Louis Dearborn L'Amour (March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) who was an American novelist and short-story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels (though he called his work "frontier stories"); however, he also wrote historical fiction (The...

Jim Ameche hosts the series every Thursday night from 1944 to 1948. Motion Picture magazine presented Hollywood's Open House which was part variety show and part radio play. Each week, the show featured a guest star, radio plays, and music. The famous star selected a favorite movie and presented scenes from that movie along with the cast from the show. Guest stars in this episode from July 15, 194...

Episode 13, March 26, 1950. Branch Patterson is running for sheriff, but Hoppy suspects the former sheriff has met with foul play.

Episode 14 aired on March 16, 1951. Edward R. Murrow's summary of the news of the week. In May 1950, a little-known U.S. Senator named Estes Kefauver, a 47 year-old Democrat from Tennessee, began a series of investigative hearings on organized crime. These formal hearings of the U.S. Senate — which came to be known as the “Kefauver Hearings” — were unique in the history of politics, also heralding...

Episode 27 aired on CBS Radio May 24, 1959. Paladin is hired to bring to justice the legendary Pappy French, a bank robber with a hidden $50,000 somewhere.

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Episode 51 aired April 11, 1953 on CBS Radio. Frank Bissell and his gang arrive in Dodge. Marshal Dillon gives them until sundown to get out of town. William Conrad and John Dehner star.

Series Description: Gunsmoke is one of those long-running classic Old-Time Radio shows that everyone knows and remembers. It's also one that is still respected for its high values, in all aspects. Gunsmoke first aired on the CBS network on April 26, 1952, billed as the first adult western.

Here are several edited excerpts of Alan Freed on the air in the early 1950s. At the end you will hear his brief farewell to fans following the payola scandal of that time. Alan Freed was not the one individual responsible of accepting “payola”, however he was among the many most visibly linked to the promulgation of rock n’ roll. Alan Freed has been credited with being the first to popularize the...

A poor reception air check of an hour of the Alan Freed Show on WINS 1010 New York City on March 22, 1955. Freed was hired by WINS radio in in September of 1954.. The following January he held a landmark dance there, promoting black performers as rock and roll artists. Within a month, the music industry was advertising "rock and roll" records in the trade papers.

Episode 54 aired on CBS Radio September 19, 1948. In the middle of an category 4 hurricane. Houses, animals, and trees are flying over you, and you suddenly realize that you have tampered with the Universe. You are bringing about the destruction of the World. Adapted from a short story by H.G. Wells by editor Les Crutchfield for CBS. Stars Ben Wright (photo) and John Dehner who later team up as He...

Fifteen minute CBS Radio newscast from March of 1954 reported by Edward R. Murrow.

The station started broadcasting on March 24, 1987 from state-of-the-art facilities on Route 28 in West Chatham.  In 1991, the station's offices and studios were moved to new facilities on Route 6A in Brewster. WFCC-FM was subsequently sold in 1992 to Dolphin Communications, owned by Allan Stanley. WFCC-FM was purchased by Charles River Broadcasting (then owners of Boston's WCRB) in 1996. Pho...