"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 2/3 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 2/3/19 | Freak SJW Murray Horwitz

[Vision]

Friends it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana.

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Info *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.

Official OTR Blog of "The Big Broadcast" thread:

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[Vision]

The Big Broadcast is a Sunday night tradition for families throughout the WAMU listening area.

Longtime radio personality and The Big Broadcast host Ed Walker passed away early on Oct. 26 at age 83. We invite you to leave your thoughts and remembrances.

Saying Goodbye To Ed Walker

Ed Walker spent 65 years on the radio. His last program was unlike any other.

[Vision]

Happy Sunday Night...Classic Radio Time...

[Vision]

7 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Blooming Blossom Matter” (CBS, Original air date January 20, 1957) (Running time 29:31)

7:30 p.m. Frank Merriwell
“Ransomed Football” (NBC, Original air date October 2, 1948) (Running time 20:42)

8 p.m. Gunsmoke
“Spring Term” (CBS, Original air date January 1, 1961) (Running time 28:53)

8:30 p.m. Dragnet
“The Big Bull” (NBC, Original air date September 14, 1952) (Running time 26:03)

9 p.m. The Six Shooter
“Gabriel Starbuck” (NBC, Original air date November 22, 1953) (Running time 29:18)

9:30 p.m. Night Beat
(NBC, Original air date June 12, 1950) (Running time 25:33)

10 p.m. Screen Directors Playhouse
“The Human Comedy” (NBC, Original air date September 9, 1949) (Running time 28:17)

10:30 p.m. Quiet Please
“Beezer’s Cellar” (ABC, Original air date October 10, 1948) (Running time 29:59)

[Vision]

Happy Sunday All! And a special cheers to those not watching the game...

We have a nice lineup...some football with Frank Merriwell...love seeing Jimmy Stewart here with The Six Shooter...Night Beat is a classic B show...Screen Directors Playhouse can get great...and ending strong with Quiet Please (one of the great openings of all time)...

How are you?

[WXRGina]

Hi, Vision! We’re not watching the Super Bowl, but we’ll listen to it on the radio. I want to hear Gladys Knight sing the National Anthem.

How YOU doin’?

[Vision]

I’m blessed Gina. How’s the painting going?

[WXRGina]

They’re getting close to being done, but the house is all out of order. Most of our stuff is in the garage, and we only have the bare essentials inside. No closet rods, no doors—bathroom or anywhere. The new paint looks excellent. This house doesn’t have a lot of light in it, so I went with shades of white, whereas the old paint was darker, even dingy-looking. It’s SO nice and bright now.

[Vision]

Cool.

[Viking2002]

Evening, folks. I used this brief intermission to turn the halftime shenanigans off and go get beer and hot dog buns.I think the only people left in my zip code are me, the missus, the cop parked in the school parking lot, and the Indian guy who runs the convenience store on the corner. Everyone else is in Atlanta tonight. Refreshingly quiet. Even the police scanner is silent.

[Vision]

Hey there, glad to hear all is quiet on the southern front. Crabcake here tonight, no football! You feeling better?

[Viking2002]

Oh, man, crabcake. Now I feel homesick. *chuckle* Homemade, or from a local joint? I’m feeling marginally better, just letting the cold/flu meds work their elfin magic. I wasn’t gonna bother with the game - no dog in this fight - but it’s having its moments. Can’t believe the score is as low as it is.

[Vision]

Good. Tonight it’s from Pappas.

[Viking2002]

Oh, I've heard of them. Them and G&M. Several others. I can go into just about any supermarket down here and find something labeled 'Maryland Style' crabcakes in the seafood section, and it tastes like a fish fillet doused in some knock-off of Old Bay. I've just learned to make them here when I'm feeling flush. I can make some beer-steamed Old Bay shrimp that'll leave the local seafood joints in the tail lights. You gotta start with them raw, shell-on, and as big as your index finger before steaming.

The Rams just kicked the 4th longest FG in Super Bowl history. 53 yards. It's tied 3-3 at the end of the 3rd! We got a real barn-burner going! *zzzzzzzzz* *snore*

I think I'll just watch the cat lick himself.

[Calvin Locke]

Ever see Baron Ambrosia with John Waters and Crab cakes?

[Vision]

I live 10 minutes from g&m. Great crabcake. I’m heading to listen in bed. At least the cat deserves to be in America.

[WXRGina]

GOOD! That sounds really fine, Viking! :-D

[Viking2002]

No, I haven’t (John Waters I’m familiar with, tho), but if you’d enlighten me with some web linkage, I’d be happy to look it up.

[Viking2002]

Yeah, G&M is a go-to for Mom and my sister when they head down that way................

[Calvin Locke]

"Baron Ambrosia" was a local access character in NYC.

He did skits involving food, and got a season or two on the Food Channel or Cooking Channel, except stretching out an "adventure" for a half-hour slot, iirc.

One epi had him hitting Baltimore for something involving crab cakes, and John Waters joined in.

Personally, it got old fast, and I think I watched the first epi, half of the second, and the John Waters one.

I wasn't surprised when it went away.

[Viking2002]

Lordy. They should have rolled in John Astin, and made a real hootenanny of it. Those old local access programs were great on a weekend evening if you wanted to sit there with an adult beverage and watch a train wreck occur in real time. I used to do that in the 80’s when I lived in D.C. Then I realized later that they were the progenitors of today’s Democrat party. I’ll have to YouTube it one evening when I’m feeling a little masochistic. *chuckle*