Posted
on April 6, 2016
Remember
when there was no internet, and there was no TV...only radio?
Yeah,
neither do I! That was a looooong time ago!
But
from around 1920 to around 1950, radio was one of the most important
ways that people got information and entertainment. For a while
there, radio was king.
During
these decades, there were a lot of shows that people looked forward
to and tuned into. Fictional radio shows told stories through
dialogue and narration and music and sound effects.
On
this date in 1931, Little Orphan Annie debuted on the NBC Blue
radio network, and on this date in 1945, This Is Your FBI
debuted on ABC radio. (Notice that NBC and ABC have both become
big-time television networks in the U.S. Did you know that they
started as radio broadcasting networks?)
Little
Orphan Annie is probably familiar to you from the many movies called
simply Annie. The adventures
of the bold, curly-haired Annie and her dog Sandy started as a comic
strip in 1924. The radio show was 15 minutes long. It was one of the
first comic strips adapted to radio – and it was on the air for 12
years! Millions of listeners tuned in, and some of those listeners
were little kids. Apparently there wasn't much in the way of radio
programming for kids back then.
This
Is Your FBI was a crime drama
taken from the perspective of Special Agent Jim Taylor. I was
surprised to read that FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover allowed the
producer-director to look at the actual FBI files and to base
storylines on real cases!
Also
on this date:
Be
sure to check out the story of Robert Garrett, pictured here. It's
pretty strange and cool!
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