[78-L] War of the Worlds broadcast [was Here's another even more oddball 78 album]

[David Weiner]

Of course, some of the relatively small number who were listening to
Welles could have phoned  or yelled to friends who were grooving on  Chase
& Sanborn and sent them into a panic.

Dave Weiner

On 10/30/13 9:14 PM, "Elizabeth McLeod" <lizmcl at midcoast.com> wrote:

>What that figure doesn't include is that the majority of people who were
>listening to Chase & Sanborn -- about 37 million according to Hooper,
>versus
>about 6 million for Welles -- didn't tune out at all. They stayed with the
>program all the way thru -- they didn't hear any part of the Welles
>program.
>
>And if we accept Cantril's figures, 82 percent of the people who tuned
>into
>Welles from some other program tuned into it from some program other than
>Chase & Sanborn. That doesn't leave an awful lot of people out of the
>whole
>audience who didn't like Dorothy Lamour. The common story is that the
>Chase
>& Sanborn audience tuned out en masse at the twelve-minute mark, but
>neither
>Cantril nor any other source actually supports that.
>
>Elizabeth