We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
S H 0 W M A N V I E VI S
News and views of current script and transcribed releases backed with showmantips. All are available for local sponsorship.
Adventure
STAND BY FOR ADVENTURE Good laks well told have always been one ot the surest forms of entertainment. Especially in these times, when even those who are foot-loose, fancy free must curb the impulse to roam, stories of exciting happenings in far places among strange people find a hearty reception.
When listeners Stand By For Adventure, the monotony of every-day living gives way to thrilling exploits in wild lands and strange cities. Without stirring from his own fireside or his ow'n arm chair, the adventurer-byproxy lives through dangerous deeds, other exploits that make the hair stand on end.
Tales of mysticism and stories of the unusual are spun by four men, a retired army officer, a star reporter, a New England sea captain and a vSouth American s( ientist. Each episode as told among the loui friends is self contained.
AIR FAX: Promotional material for use on the air, in print or by direct mail and point-of-sale is available. Type: Transcription. Schedule: Once or twice, weekly. Episodes: 26. Time Unit: 15 minutes. Producer: NBC Radio Recording.
COMMENT: Programs are the essence of radio, and good programs have w^hat il takes to build a large listening audi(iHc. Program here offers almost any sponsor a short-cut down the long road which leads to prestige. For its wide apj)eal and its ability to capture mass aticntion, the series is a natural. Especially to be pi i/cd is a trans(ribed series l)j»( ked uj> with plenty of merchandising material.
176
Bakeries
KNOW YOUR AMERICA AVhat nation has a heart as big as the world itself? America! AVhat nation was founded by people who wanted a place w^here they could have freedom? America! But the fact remains that for a better understanding and appreciation of that which is "The home of the brave, the land of the free," it's essential to Know Your America. To provide just such an appreciation is the objective of the syndicated feature.
A blend of transcribed narrative and native-to-this-soil music, the program can be built into a five-, ten or 15-minute series. The addition of a telephonemoney angle based on skill and knowledge of American history converts it into a listener participating show.
Transcribed portion, with 315 episodes available, covers the 48 states of the union, the 31 presidents and many of their wives, outstanding men and women who have helped build America, as well as the lakes, rivers, mountains, national parks and cities of these United States. Historical facts are woven into warm, human stories.
While the series is adaptable for sponsorship for almost any type of business, it is doing yeoman service for, among others, the Braun Baking Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., where it is used at an early morning hour over WWSW. Old Home Bakers, Sacramento, Cal., over KROY, used Know Your America as the basis for an institutional campaign for its Betsy Ross Oi.d Fashioned Bread.
AIR FAX: A network cast polishes o<f the lines. Episodes: 315. Producer: W. E. Long Co.
COMMENT: A |)rogram of this kind is almost certain to get the l)a(king and
RADIO SHOWMANSHIP