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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morgan first appeared on the wireless scene over a decade ago directly behind 710 on your dial, --if your dial happened to be in the vicinity of New York city. His efforts there, for WOR, were better documented than rewarded. Since then rivals have stolen his jokes but very few sponsors have paid for them...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: From the Pit | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...their tears and hastily applauded the FCC proposal. NBC, which runs the big Truth or Consequences (its Miss Hush prizes amounted to more than $21,000) and nine lesser quiz-bangs, primly pointed to its own "longstanding policy of stressing the entertainment, educational and news values of its programs . . ." WOR, key station for Mutual, another leader in the giveaway field (Queen for a Day, Three for the Money), solemnly assented: "The giveaway craze and large prizes have begun to overshadow the entertainment value of programs. Such overemphasis is not healthy for radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Goodbye, Easy Money | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...such obvious devices. "I'm comical," she explains, with a gap-toothed grin, "I'm cute." After a fashion, she is. Short (4 ft. 10 in.) and pear-shaped, Sadie looks rather like a good-natured witch (a role she played last Halloween with obvious relish on WOR's Daily Dilemma). Her other assets as a quizgoer include ten years of experience, a bobbing head of tight grey curls, a Brooklyn accent, and an eagerness to do virtually anything in public for laughs-and prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Pro | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Most radio weather news is read directly from the teletype in brief, dry spells at intervals throughout the day. But not the nightly (11:25 p.m.) comments of WOR's Nemo.* Nemo reads the U.S. Weather Bureau prediction, then follows it with a scientifically sound but slightly rhapsodic analysis of his own. By last week he had attracted thousands of enthusiastic listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prophet | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...time World War II came along, Partridge, already a respected amateur weather prophet, turned pro. The Coast Guard offered him a special commission as a meteorologist and he became, at 64, one of the oldest lieutenants (jg) in the service. In 1946, when WOR went to the Weather Bureau for a likely station weatherman, the Bureau promptly suggested Partridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prophet | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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