Tonight, May 04, 2025, from 8 to 10 pm, we listen to very rare VE Day recordings from the NBC Blue network on May 07 & 08, 1945. But first up, our weekly episode of GUNSMOKE.

Tune in to WBAI-NY 99.5 FM at 8pm, or listen to the stream at wbai.org for THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO, produced by Max Schmid.

GUNSMOKE from CBS on June 09, 1957 #270 "Dodge Podge” Commercials deleted. A good story about a cattleman and his son...and the sheep herder hated by the father, admired by the son. Well done! With William Conrad, Parley Baer, Howard McNear, Georgia Ellis, John Dehner, Stacy Harris, Sam Edwards, Lawrence Dobkin, produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, written by Les Crutchfield, editorial supervisor John Meston, SFX by Tom Hanley & Bill James, announcer George Walsh.

V-E Day

Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official surrender of all German military operations.

The Blue Network (previously known as the NBC Blue Network) was the on-air name of a now defunct American radio network, which broadcast from 1927 through 1945.

Beginning as one of the two radio networks owned by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), the independent Blue Network was born of a divestiture in 1942, arising from antitrust litigation. The Blue Network formally changed its name to the American Broadcasting Company on June 15, 1945.

The Breakfast Club premiered on NBC Blue in Chicago in 1933. Don McNeill is credited as the first performer to make morning talk and variety a viable format in radio

Breakfast in Hollywood was a morning radio show created and hosted by Tom Breneman broadcast from 1941 to 1948 on three different radio networks: NBC, ABC and Mutual. These unscripted shows were spontaneous and involved much audience participation.

These are some of the shows interrupted for news bulletins regarding the surrender of Germany and the end of World War 2 in Europe.

JOHN J. ANTHONY from the Mutual net on May 07, 1945 for Carter's Little Liver Pills, Arrid Deodorant. "Does your husband love you as much as the day you were married?" Mr. Anthony answers the letters of young people with problems, with "kindly and helpful advice." With John J. Anthony, announcer George Putnam.

HOWARD K. SMITH via Pool feed on May 09, 1945. A report for the combined networks, from the bombed out city of Berlin. A very dramatic report describing the utter destruction of every recognizable landmark. "I don't know what to call the ruined city I saw today, but it was not Berlin."

 

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