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RIP Old Time Radio
Emplower Wisconsin ^ | June 19, 2020 | Empower Wisconsin Staff

Posted on 06/19/2020 8:46:55 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Who cares about NPR? Everything is internet these days so Old Radio World
Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci Fi, Western, Detective, Music, Miscellaneous
21 posted on 06/19/2020 9:03:40 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I’m sure we will see old movies and TV shows being banned as well.

With this cultural cleansing going on , almost anything made before about the year 2000 is going to be offensive in some way .

Pick any old show or movie and you will see that there is something objectionable to these radicals.

Leave it to Beaver is objectionable to feminist types because June Cleaver represents a stereotypical housewife. And with Leave it to Beaver or any old sitcom , there was no obligatory gay character on shows back in those days.

A silly sitcom such as Bewitched has got to be offensive, because Darren warned Samantha not to use Witchcraft , and he behaved like he was her boss, like he was dominant over her, in telling her not to use Witchcraft.

You could make a game out of this. Pick any old movie or TV show and then talk about what these radicals today would find offensive about it.


22 posted on 06/19/2020 9:04:48 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Bump


23 posted on 06/19/2020 9:07:17 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

one can find many of these programs at archive.org. The entire run of Great Gildersleeve for example is there. As well as WW2 broadcasts, etc. You gotta take time to hunt, but its there and all downloadable—at least it was.


24 posted on 06/19/2020 9:08:12 AM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Old Time Radio Player is a pretty good app for your phone.
25 posted on 06/19/2020 9:09:28 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: dfwgator

If you are into WWII history, YouTube has English subtitled copies of WWII German newsreels. Look for “die deutsche wochenschau english subtitles”.

It is interesting to watch the tone of the series as the war progresses. In 1940 it’s all “Our soldiers are saving Norway and Denmark from English invasion”. By 1944, it is more like “Our brave lads are repositioning to more defensible lines” i.e. retreating. In early 1945 it’s “You’ll find taking Aachen a lot tougher than Paris or Bucharest”. They never say they are losing, but I’m sure their audience had no illusions.


26 posted on 06/19/2020 9:09:42 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
As an Army Brat in Yokohama, I listened to Armed Forces Radio Far East Network replay these old radio shows on AM 810 Khz.
Don McNeil’s Breakfast Club, Bob and Ray and The Whistler were favorites...
27 posted on 06/19/2020 9:11:05 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: hanamizu

I’ve watched a lot of those.


28 posted on 06/19/2020 9:11:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Vision

If I want offensive content I watch CNN or MSNBC or ABC or CBS or NBC or read the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times.

Their anti-white prejudice deeply offends me.


29 posted on 06/19/2020 9:11:48 AM PDT by cgbg (Kneeling is a half measure--lefties need to dig a six foot hole and bury themselves in it.)
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To: Jonty30

We’ll get our old time radio back in heaven, and Rush Limbaugh will host the show for us, but in the meantime plenty of online sources till they take those too.


30 posted on 06/19/2020 9:14:17 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

When I was in Germany for my time in the Army (1978-81), Armed Forces Radio had these same programs in the early afternoon. It was a good respite from their music.


31 posted on 06/19/2020 9:15:24 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The cultural revolution continues.


32 posted on 06/19/2020 9:15:26 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Go to WAMU Big Broadcast

The Big Broadcast is WAMU’s longest running program. The show features a collection of radio from the golden age, the ‘30s, ‘40s, and ‘50s, hosted by Tony-Award winning playwright, lyricist and director Murray Horwitz.

Each Sunday night you’ll hear shows like Gunsmoke, The Jack Benny Show, The Lone Ranger, Suspense, Fibber McGee and Molly, and Dragnet all woven together with historical tidbits — and links between the shows and entertainment today.

33 posted on 06/19/2020 9:17:29 AM PDT by 11th_VA (May you live in interesting times - Ancient Chinese Proverb)
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To: T-Bird45
AFRTS Archive
34 posted on 06/19/2020 9:18:40 AM PDT by 11th_VA (May you live in interesting times - Ancient Chinese Proverb)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
>>Once upon a time the left fought against burning books, movies, TV shows, radio programs.

When was this? Certainly sometime BEFORE the early 1950s.


35 posted on 06/19/2020 9:19:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Dr. Sivana

I don’t even know what online on-demand is. I am sure that there are at least 2 or 3 others out here who don’t know and could care less. It seems that young people find that we older people really don’t matter anymore so our past goes on the pile of burning books. RIP USA as we knew it.


36 posted on 06/19/2020 9:20:26 AM PDT by certrtwngnut (4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Bump


37 posted on 06/19/2020 9:38:17 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!at)
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To: raccoonradio
This banning is one reason I like to have physical copies of my media. I have a large collection of Looney Tunes on Blu-ray and DVD. I did not have to buy a copy of Gone With the Wind because I have the Blu-ray. I have bought Blu-rays of movies Disney wants to censor like Dumbo and Lady and the Tramp. I also have a fair amount of Old Time Radio shows. they can often be purchased cheaply online in MP3 format.

I still buy and collect CDs. If I listen to them in my truck, I rip them to thumb drives, but the originals are still with me. At least until a gang of "protesters" decides to loot my house and burn it down.

38 posted on 06/19/2020 9:44:42 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

The Shadow was an early incremental “cancel culture” proponent itself.

If you compare the endings - criminal gets his comeuppance - from the late 1930s through the end in the 1950s, there was a definite progression from dying on the spot, to death sentence to suicide to death-by-misadventure during the escape. (sequence may not be correct, but it’s there.)

I gave up re-listening when I noticed Lamont called Margo “a good little social worker” in an epi.


39 posted on 06/19/2020 10:00:16 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: raccoonradio

XM148 is the only reason I keep the service.


40 posted on 06/19/2020 10:17:35 AM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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