Radio Programs beginningwith "N"
"My name is Randy Stone. I cover the Nightbeat for the Chicago Star.
Stories begin in many different ways..."
Arturo
Toscanini
Leopold Stokowski
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Regular Conductors: Arturo Toscanini, Leopold Stokowski
Sponsors: Sustaining (none), General Motors, Squibb, possibly
others (with a sponsor, the orchestra bore that name, such as The General
Motors Symphony of the Air)
Network: NBC (Blue), NBC (Red)
Aired: 1937-1954
Type of Show: Symphony Concert
NB: Not so much a radio series as a regular musical institution;
a symphony orchestra which offered free seat to everyone in the comfort
on one's own home, car, or place of work. They even made records
on the RCA label. The NBC Symphony was a 104-piece
group with a regular season, whose roster for many years included legendary
tubist Bill Bell. Their concert and rehearsal hall was Studio
8-H in the NBC Building at Radio City. Its regular conductors,
Toscanini and Stokowski, were two of the last real tyrants in serious music.
No one with their lack of tact could make it today, not even as a miliatary
bandmaster.
The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe (refers to the two last
Nero Wolfe series heard in the United States. There was an earlier
series and a later series as well)
Stars: J.B. Williams (4/7/43-6/30/43). Santos Ortega (7/5/43-1944),
Luis van Rooten (1944-7/14/44) Francis X. Bushman (1945-46), Sydney
Greenstreet (1950-51)
Sponsor: Sustaining (no sponsor), Jergens Lotion, Plymouth Automobiles
Network: Blue, ABC, Mutual, NBC, CBC (Canada)
Aired: 1950-1953, 1980s
Type of Show: Detective Drama (PI)
NB: He could always crack a case and never leave the comfort
of his living room chair.
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Star: Lon Clark
Sponsor: Sustaining (none), Lin-X, Old Dutch Cleanser, Harrison
Products (?)
Network: Mutual
Aired: 1942-1955
Type of Show: Detective Drama (PI)
NB: Based on a character created many years before. The
cases were usually weird, improbable, and interesting.
Frank Lovejoy
Nightbeat
Star: Frank Lovejoy
Sponsors: Wheaties, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer, Sustaining (none)
Network: NBC
Aired: 1950-1952
Type of Show: Drama
NB: Frank Lovejoy is Randy Stone, a reporter for the Chicago Star,
covering whatever happens in the middle of the night. There was a
TV show in Canada with a similar premise in the 1980s. After hearing
this show, go to a website called The
Golden Days of Australian Radio and listen to the Australian version
of this show. It's very different.
Nightfall
Stars: various
Network: CBC (Canada)
Sponsor: Sustaining (none)
Aired: 1981-1983
Type of Show: Anthology (drama)
NB: I first heard this program on a set of recordings from the
Musical
Heritage Society. Later KNX in Los Angeles began to play
some of the programs. They are very weird and very contemporary,
very reminiscent of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone on TV. Only
the pictures are better on radio.
Last updated November 23, 2001
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