I hear some AM stations running old tv shows on the radio, and Sirius also has a station with these old shows. How many people would be listening to an AM station playing a tv show from the 1940s or 1950s? I can listen to Sirius, because there's no static.
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Old tv shows on the radio
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I love Christmas time when many Iheart talk stations play old shows like "George and Gracie save Christmas" they were made for the radio and later adapted to television.
If you're in to baseball you gotta bring up "Classic Baseball on the Radio" on YouTube. Hours of enjoyment as I wait for next season.
If you're in to baseball you gotta bring up "Classic Baseball on the Radio" on YouTube. Hours of enjoyment as I wait for next season.
People that live in an area with lots of trees, Sirius drops out so much for me, worse than AM. Sirius is not the solution for all of the US.
When 'Gunsmoke' used to be both a radio and TV series, they used to try out the TV scripts as a radio production first. I remember someone saying that the only script they couldn't translate to TV was one where the entire town was flooded. Shades of the Stan Freeberg radio PSA
The star of the radio series didn't "translate" to TV either.
I forgot that they were radio shows first, but aren't these radio stations worried about ratings?
Maybe some more information would help: Which stations are we talking about, and on what day and at what time?
I ask because the stations I'm familiar with usually run this kind of thing Sunday nights, when ratings are not too important.
I also know of several non-commercial stations that run old time radio shows, and they're not worried about ratings.
This is perhaps merely an 'aside' to this thread, but .....
The wifester and I listen to Oldies internet stations nowadays. There is a gal named DJ_DI on Good Time Oldies who puts in a :10 or :15 segment of the Hardy Boys or an Annette show.
Now -- up front -- I was never a fan of talk on the radio. I want my mP3's!!!
But I am amazed at the clarity and the microphone technique effect they cultured for those old time shows. The shows sometimes are duller than listening to paint dry, but the sonics were terrific. You can understand everything that any character said.
Considering today's commercials (radio or TV) that coherence is a lost art.
The wifester and I listen to Oldies internet stations nowadays. There is a gal named DJ_DI on Good Time Oldies who puts in a :10 or :15 segment of the Hardy Boys or an Annette show.
Now -- up front -- I was never a fan of talk on the radio. I want my mP3's!!!
But I am amazed at the clarity and the microphone technique effect they cultured for those old time shows. The shows sometimes are duller than listening to paint dry, but the sonics were terrific. You can understand everything that any character said.
Considering today's commercials (radio or TV) that coherence is a lost art.
It's actually a Canadian station AM900 CHML, and the shows play 7 nights a week.
https://globalnews.ca/hamilton/program/old-radio-shows-900chml/
Interesting idea. I can't think of any US stations that do it.
As does Zoomer radio, AM740, out of Toronto on weeknights @ 10. Usually a drama piece followed by a comedy show. Can pick them up OTA pretty good in NE Ohio but you can listen to them online as well. Old radio shows but some that ended up becoming TV shows [Dragnet, Green Hornet, etc.]
I don't know if it's even still on the air, but at least a few years ago there was a program "When Radio Was" that aired on stations across the country. I know at one time 600 WICC up in Bridgeport carried the show. As did WLIS/WMRD in Middletown/Old Saybrook, CT.
The old USA Radio Network carried old-time shows too circa 2002.
More recently I heard an old time radio show on The Talk of Connecticut on a Saturday Night.
I don't know if it's still around, but there used to be "Twlight Zone Radio". The above mentioned WLIS/WMRD used to air that too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_(radio_series)
http://www.whenradiowas.com/
Can't really tell from either website whether they're still on any stations or if they just exist as stand alone sites that you can order from. I know [at least in my area] that the last original CBS radio mystery shows ended in 1979 [but continued on elsewhere till 1982] as a station around here used to broadcast them late in the evening. While everyone else was watching TV, I was in my room listening to it. And apparently you can listen to all 1399 CBS Radio Mystery Theater shows online for free!
Yep, we got that for years in Fresno on KMJ. It still exists, but I haven't heard it on an actual radio station for quite awhile.
That's the show I heard on The Talk of Connecticut.
But what the OP was talking about is airing old time radio five nights a week. TTBOMK it's not done in the US.
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