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1944 -- "Favorite Wartime Show," Radio Daily poll [34] 1945 -- "Best Program Produced By Army or Government Bureau, or in Interest of War," 14th Annual Radio Editors' Poll [ 35 ] The Army Hour also had a different kind of popularity in more personal ways when a local member of the Army was involved, as illustrated by two anecdotes.
A popular government wartime radio show, performed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was known as "fireside chats". Two of the most famous programs on the radio show were entitled "On National Security" and "On the Declaration of War with Japan". [15] "The Arsenal of Democracy" was a slogan coined by President Roosevelt during his national ...
Mail Call was an American radio program that entertained American soldiers from 1942 until 1945, during World War II. Lt. Col. Thomas A.H. Lewis (commander of the Armed Forces Radio Service) wrote in 1944, "The initial production of the Armed Forces Radio Service was 'Mail Call,' a morale-building half hour which brought famed performers to the microphone to sing and gag in the best American ...
Wartime civilian receiver, 1944-1945. The Utility Radio or Wartime Civilian Receiver was a valve domestic radio receiver, manufactured in Great Britain during World War II starting in July 1944. It was designed by G.D. Reynolds of Murphy Radio. Both AC and battery-operated versions were made. [1] [2] [3]
Tap and acrobatic dancer Vivienne Hole, stage name Vivienne Fayre, a civilian aged 19, was the only ENSA member killed in the war. On 23 January 1945 in Normandy, she was being driven between shows as a passenger aboard a truck carrying stage scenery which strayed into a minefield. [4] She was buried with full military honours in Sittard War ...
The show is inspired by an Orson Welles radio drama that gave Halloween eve audiences the impression that aliens were landing on earth and wreaking havoc. ... Local play remembers radio’s ‘War ...
7 January – Jim Bohannon, American television and radio personality and nationally syndicated talk show host 28 March – Rick Barry , American former NBA player and broadcaster 12 May – Brian Kay , English bass singer and radio music presenter
"Vietnam was 'the living-room war' and this, I guess, you could call 'the social media war,'" Robert Thompson, Syracuse University professor of television, radio and film and director of the ...