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1949 Radio News

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1949
Episodes
35

News from 1949.

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I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1949 news file dump. Plus some talk shows and specials.

Any typo or error is mine.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. AFRS Armed Forces Radio Story

    · 59 min

  2. AFRS How Sleep the Brave (Memorial Day)

    · 31 min

  3. Cold War Blood Crisis

    · 1:00

  4. Harry S Truman reading a script describing the end of the Berlin Blockade

    · 0:38

  5. NBC The Passing Parade Empire State Building Crash

    · 15 min

  6. USO On With The Show

    · 31 min

  7. WCCO People and Events of 1949

    · 13 min

  8. WJLS 10th Anniversary Program PARTIAL

    · 12 min

  9. CBC Comic Books: Seducation Of The Innocent

    · 7:05

  10. CAN Bob Hope March of Dimes Special From Philadephia

    · 14 min

  11. NBC Living 1949 The State Of American Humor Fred Allen

    · 24 min

  12. Harry S Truman The Creation of NATO

    · 7:27

  13. NBC Bob Hope Stalin Visits America

    · 28 min

  14. BBCTV Princess Elizabeth at Coventry and Oxford

    · 6:49

  15. MBS Mel Allen Saturday Sports Special

    · 12 min

  16. ABC Walter Winchell Bert Park's Wife Has A Baby

    · 15 min

  17. AFRS VFW Golden Jubilee Show

    · 29 min

  18. CBC News Roundup Creation of NATO

    · 7:26

  19. KBMY Lew White Organ Program 324

    · 19 min

  20. WHAS Kentucky Derby Clem McCarthy

    · 2:21

  21. ABC Opportunity U.S.A. Alan Ladd, Bing Crosby, et al

    · 1 h 00 min

  22. BBCTV Channel Islands Welcome Royal Visitors

    · 6:05

  23. CBS Wendy Warren And The News with Douglas Edwards

    · 15 min

  24. NBC Special George Murphy

    · 1 h 01 min

  25. CBS Citizen Of The World Norman Corwin

    · 59 min

  26. BBC Aneurin Bevan Rt Hon Minister of Health Foundation of the Health Service

    · 0:45

  27. MBS World Series Game 3 Yankees vs Dodgers

    · 2 h 56 min

  28. MBS World Series Game 4 Yankees vs Dodgers

    · 2 h 51 min

  29. MBS World Series Game 5 Yankees vs Dodgers

    · 3 h 00 min

  30. CBC Discovering The Dead Sea Scrolls

    · 2:25

  31. KSTP News

    · 7:26

  32. Winston Churchill On Writing

    · 0:35

  33. CBS We The People Live From Mars

    · 29 min

  34. SYN An Army of Stars Salutes the Salvation Army Christmas 1949

    · 29 min

  35. SYNTV Year-by-Year Universal Newsreels' Top Stories 1949

    · 55 min

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The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. 1949 Radio News

    WWII Era Audio Recordings · WA4CZD · 35 episodes here · archive.org

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