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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP123: January 1954—Radio's Uncertain Future
Description: For those who wanted Breaking Walls episode 123 in the traditional format.
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In Breaking Walls episode 123 we open 2022 with a six-part mini-series on radio business and programming in 1954. We’ll begin with January, in a radio half-season that was for many, the end of the line.
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Highlights:
• Ringing in the New Year with Fibber McGee and Molly
• Gunsmoke’s Stage Holdup
• People Are Funny is Radio’s Top-Rated Show
• January 1954 with Ozzie, Harriet, David, and Ricky
• Jack Benny’s Face is Familiar on Suspense
• Smog and Other Current Events
• Beulah
• The Death of Edward Howard Armstrong
• Looking Ahead to February 1954
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