Posted on 04/15/2018 2:09:12 PM PDT by Vision
Sounds awful, doesn’t it?
Network radio really went away with a bang as TV took off. I suppose that it was the advertisers driving this more than anything. TV really went big in New York City right after the war, and that is where the ad agencies and corporate headquarters were. It took a while for TV to spread across the country. Commercial radio was developed in the 1920’s and took 10-15 years to spread across the country. The network radio programming that we remember developed in the 1930’s and really lasted less than twenty good years.
Development dates of mass media:
Radio: 1920’s
Talking movies: late 1920’s
Television: late 1940’s
Satellite and Cable TV: 1970’s
Internet: 1980’s
WWW: late 1990’s
“Better living through chemistry”.
Thinking about it, iirc, “pink slime” was created using ammonia.
There you are, Viking! :-D
You look like you’re about to kick some crappie ###.
I was attempting to go for the largest single fish in the tournament. I shall explain this ‘tournament’ thusly: it’s a one-month tourney. Open to anyone who pays their fees. They have cash payouts at the end on the month for A: the largest fish of the species, B: the most caught of the species, and C: the heaviest single fish of the species. Now, when you leave a tourney that open for that length of time, you’re more than likely going to get a few regulars who are retired, on disability, both, looking to get out of the house, looking to avoid the wife, have no children at home, or any permutation of those scenarios. That kind of precludes guys (and gals) like me from making a serious run at it because we work for a living and are trying to squeeze in a little friendly amateur competition on the weekend, between springtime chores. The deck is immediately stacked against us. It’s like an angler’s Affirmative Action competition. Proof? All three payouts went to the same angler who had the time to spend all day, every day on the lake without any serious competition. I was just in it to see if I could cast a Hail Mary jig under the dock or by the dam and hook into Crapzilla. LOL I knew the second I paid my entry fee that I might as well have flushed that money into the sewer, but that wasn’t the point. It was the opportunity to compete. This guy was the New England Patriots of the lake, and I was the Cleveland Browns showing up on Sundays. Hey, even some of the Bassmaster Classic and Elite winners can show up at any given weekend tournament and get sent home after Day Two because they came back to the docks with an empty livewell, so I don’t feel one iota of remorse for at least going for it.
I think that Burns and Allen were great on both radio and TV. If you watch their first few TV shows, you can see the transition from the variety show style of radio to the TV sitcom style. I am sure that it was more work for Gracie to have to memorize scripts as opposed to having the radio script in front of her.
Lucille Ball successfully took radio’s My Favorite Husband to TV as I Love Lucy.
Today, we see podcasts and audiobooks as perhaps the new version of radio.
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