[78-L] 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast in excllent sound

[Sammy Jones]

They also exist as a souvenir set made for the "director of the Mercury 
Theatre and star of these broadcasts" which I have <grin>.  The recording 
was made by the Harry Smith studio of New York.

Lennick is right: there apparently was no repeat broadcast, so listeners on 
the west coast heard the show at 5 PM if they heard it at all.  Remember, 
this was a very obscure, non-sponsored series up against one of the top 
comedy shows on the air.

I still would like to pin down of the recording we have of the Chase and 
Sanborn Charlie McCarthy show of that night (Oct. 30) is from the east or 
west coast version.  If the aircheck was made from a west coast station, 
then it's not the same performance that most of the country was listening to 
as Welles and his group put on their Hallowe'en Eve play...

Sammy Jones


> It was LIVE LIVE LIVE and not even redone 3 hours later for the west 
> coast.
> Transcriptions existed only as reference recordings (line or air checks) 
> or for
> syndication to non-network stations because the radio networks had agreed 
> for
> years never to broadcast a record. The first exception was Herb Morrison's
> Hindenburg report and as Mike Biel has said, it was the only one up to 
> this
> point. No such problems existed in Europe or at the Beeb or in Canada.
>
> dl
>
> On 10/28/2013 7:18 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
>> Was it intended to be broadcast only once without reference to the other
>> time zones? Was it transcribed by CBS for later broadcasting?
>>
>>        Julian Vein
>