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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP146: December 1973 With Rod Serling And The Zero Hour
Description: In Breaking Walls episode 146 we spotlight the Jay Kholos, Elliott Lewis, and Rod Serling series The Zero Hour in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of its debut on the Mutual Broadcasting System in December of 1973.
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Highlights:
• Radio Drama Coming Back in 1973
• Jay Kholos Conceives The Zero Hour — Rod Serling Will Host
• The Zero Hour Is On the Air
• WRVR and Selling Radio Shows In the 1970s
• Nixon On The Hot Seat
• AFTRA’s Moving Goal Posts — Kholos Must Sell The Zero Hour’s Rights
• Selling The Zero Hour to Mutual
• Elliott Lewis and Jay Kholos Leave The Zero Hour
• Mutual Cancels The Zero Hour and Rod Serling is Disap...