Radio Trivia

radio was king! really!

The NBC chimes The notes used were the first three notes of the World War I song Over There, which are the notes E-G-C. NBC later ...

Command Performance cost $75,000 to produce each week!

Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour was sponsored by Chase & Sanborn, Chrysler, and Old Gold Cigarettes.

Suspense was the longest running dramatic series in the history of radio!

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Many Superman characters, Copyboy Jimmy Olsen, editor Perry White, Inspector Henderson and the Daily Planet newspaper originated on the air.

Batman & Robin started as a radio show before it became a comic strip.

CBS was founded in 1927 by the Columbia Phonograph Company.

NBC was born in 1926 when RCA bought WEAF from AT&T for $1 Million.

AT&T started WEAF New York, Ny. in 1922.

In 1920 Westinghouse founded the nation's firts radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Sears Roebuck started radio station WLS in Chicago in early 1924. WLS stood for World's Largest Store.

Jack Benny was one of the most popular entertainers on radio between 1932 and 1955.