In recent days there have been extensive lamentations over the absence of original drama on television, but not for years have many regretted the passing of new plays on radio.

good radio drama has its own special demands that badly need reinvigoration.

This radio drama styled interpretation of the novel was released through independent label Rykodisc and spans 6 discs with a 6 hour running time.

* The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air radio drama production company

While the Browns ' on-field play in 1956 was uninspiring, off-the-field drama developed after a Cleveland-based inventor named George Sarles let Brown test a helmet with a radio transmitter inside.

* The character of Dr. Hesselius is featured in a Mutual Broadcasting Network radio drama entitled " The Shadow People ", an episode from The Hall of Fantasy series ( 1946 – 1947, 1949 – 1952, 1952, 1953 ).

In the early radio age, content typically included comedy, drama, news, music, and sports reporting.

Radio drama and comedy continue, often on public radio.

* Ruby, the protagonist of the radio drama Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe

Retcons also appear in soap operas, serial drama, movie sequels, professional wrestling, video games, radio series, and other kinds of serial fiction.

The American soap opera Guiding Light started as a radio drama in January 1937 and subsequently transferred to television in June 1952.

The longest-running drama in television and radio history, Guiding Light, barely reached 2. 1 millions daily viewers in 2009 and was ended.

*" The Strange Case of the Demon Barber " ( 8 January 1946 ), an adaptation of the Sweeney Todd story featured in an episode of the radio drama The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

* The War of the Worlds ( radio drama ), the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles

The BBC Radio 4 series The Hobbit radio drama was an adaptation by Michael Kilgarriff, broadcast in eight parts ( four hours in total ) from September to November 1968.

Category: British radio drama

In 2009, British digital radio station BBC Radio 7 broadcast Planet B, a science-fiction drama set in a virtual world.

* July 31 – The radio drama The Shadow airs for the first time.

A 1942 act of Congress made advertising expenses a tax benefit and that sent even automobile and tire manufacturers — who had no products to sell since they had been converted to war production — scurrying to sponsor symphony orchestras and serious drama on radio.

Category: American radio drama

In April 2010, after securing a $ 100, 000 grant, Pierce College launched a 24-hour student-run online radio station, KPCR, airing a mix of music, sports, drama, and locally-produced news and features.

During the late 1970s, Straczynski also became the on-air entertainment reviewer for KSDO-FM and wrote several radio plays before being hired as a scriptwriter for the radio drama Alien Worlds.

Straczynski has written for radio drama, including the series Alien Worlds and scripts for Mutual Radio Theater.

These contour diagrams also suggest a rather rapid falloff in the radio brightness with latitude.

He also expanded and modernized the radio system with a central control station.

The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.

Non-visual amateur astronomy includes the use of infrared filters on conventional telescopes, and also the use of radio telescopes.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).

Even touching an alpha source is usually not harmful, though many alpha sources also are accompanied by beta-emitting radio daughters, and alpha emission is also accompanied by gamma photon emission.

Of course, a loss of radio communications may also be the cause for a lack of response, in which case a pilot would usually squawk 7600 anyway.

They also capture a boy named Jefri Olsndot, whom Steel intended on killing but eventually exploits in order to develop advanced technology ( such as cannon and radio communication ).

Since 2002 she has also made numerous television and radio appearances, including as a television presenter.

The album's title song received some pop radio airplay and crossed over to No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " 1974 ( We Were Young )" and " Saved By Love " also charted as Adult Contemporary songs.

He also hosted similar vehicles on the radio — and was a familiar celebrity guest on various other broadcast programs, including the long-running NBC radio series, Monitor.

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There also are eight radio stations.

Digital cable operators and internet providers also provide radio signals.

He also served in the U. S. Navy in World War I, as a shipboard radio operator, as an editor of a publication, and as a crash rescue boat commander.

It also housed Station X, a secret radio intercept station, although interception was soon moved to a location with better reception.

* Bernard Lee ( poker player ) is a poker professional / media personality who has also written for ESPN. com and CardPlayer Magazine and hosts his own radio show.

This also led to radio for communication between battalions.

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

It also allowed forward compatibility, since old monaural FM radio receivers still could receive a signal from a new transmitter.