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The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area. Each week, Big Broadcast host Ed Walker offers listeners priceless recordings of popular radio programs from the '30s, '40s and '50s. Priceless, especially, for a man whose first sentence as a child was, 'Turn the radio on.'
1 posted on 10/25/2015 2:10:46 PM PDT by Vision
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Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...The End Of An Era


2 posted on 10/25/2015 2:12:15 PM PDT by Vision (I have sworn to God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.T Jefferson)
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Week before last I heard a great “Lone Wolf” dramatization — on “Suspense”!

(From 1943. I heard it on Toronto’s AM 740.)

I didn’t know “Suspense” did that.

Warren William was Michael Lanyard, the Lone Wolf. He’s much better on radio than on the silver screen, where he’s wooden.

Eric Blore was his valet Jameson. He’s outstanding on both radio and film.


4 posted on 10/25/2015 2:16:59 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Vision

Sorry to see Ed go.


37 posted on 10/25/2015 6:02:28 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Sorry to hear Ed is ending his career,(he’s 83) but it’s on a good note.

I have enjoyed the program on many Sundays, this one is very good.

Good luck Ed.....Happy trails..


56 posted on 10/25/2015 7:40:44 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Vision

From DCRTV.com

http://www.dcrtv.com

0/15 - DC radio legend Ed Walker (right) is retiring from his Sunday night nostalgic radio show, “The Big Broadcast,” at WAMU, 88.5. According to wamu.org, Walker is leaving the public radio station due to health issues. He has been diagnosed with cancer. “He made the decision with his family to give his full attention to his health,” says a station statement. His last show - a compilation of his favorite music and programs - will air Sunday, October 25, at 7 PM. Rob Bamberger, host of “Hot Jazz Saturday Night,” will take the mic as interim host of “The Big Broadcast.” At 83, Walker has been host of WAMU’s longest-running program since 1990. About 70,000 fans tune in every Sunday night to hear the tales of “Johnny Dollar,” the witticisms of “Our Miss Brooks,” the Wild West stories of “Gunsmoke,” and a variety of other shows. Walker’s relationship with WAMU spans more than half a century. The first blind student admitted to American University, Walker was one of the founders of then-student-operated WAMU-AM in 1951. It is there that Walker met Willard Scott. A creative partnership sparked, and the two were a duo on Washington radio for 20 years, the mid-1950s through mid-1970s, calling themselves “The Joy Boys,” which aired on the old WRC radio. Over the years, Walker and Scott also worked at WMAL and WOL.....

10/20 - WTOP’s Neal Augenstein looks at the lengthy DC radio career of Ed Walker (right), who is retiring from his 20-year gig as host of Sunday’s “The Big Broadcast” at WAMU after recently receiving a cancer diagnosis. And two more decades in which Walker was partnered with Willard Scott as “The Joy Boys” on the old WRC radio. At wtop.com.....

10/22 - DC radio legend Ed Walker announced last week that he was retiring from his WAMU Sunday night nostalgic radio show so that he could focus on his health battle. But the last episode of a Walker-hosted “The Big Broadcast,” which will air Sunday night, was recorded in Room 623 at Sibley Memorial Hospital. Walker, 83 and battling cancer, had been there a week. He did the show in a hospital gown, connected to a bank of hospital monitors, according to washingtonpost.com.....


67 posted on 10/25/2015 9:32:39 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Read that Ed passed away three hours after the last broadcast.

http://wtop.com/local/2015/10/radio-legend-ed-walker-dies-at-83-three-hours-after-final-broadcast/

68 posted on 10/26/2015 10:42:23 AM PDT by joesbucks
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