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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP147—004: The Launch Of The CBS Radio Mystery Theater—Watergate, Gas Crisis, High Inflation
Description: On Thursday, January 10th, 1974 the crew of Skylab 4, which had been orbiting the earth for more than fifty days, was granted a day off. The week prior, during a televised news conference Mission commander Gerald Carr said he missed cold beer and football.
That same day the U.S. carried out three simultaneous nuclear explosions as part of Operation Arbor in Nevada.
January 13th was Super Bowl VIII Sunday. The defending champion Miami Dolphins faced off against the Minnesota Vikings at Rice Stadium in Houston. More than seventy thousand were in attendance.
That evening. Floyd Kalber signed on for NBC’s...