This episode was originally released on 6/1/2022. While new episodes of Breaking Walls are on hiatus I'll be going back and posting the older episodes.
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In Breaking Walls episode 128 we wrap up our six month look at 1954 by ending in June with network cancellations.
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Highlights:
• The State of Radio and The Union
• The End of Escape with John Dehner
• News with Frank Edwards on Mutual
• Let’s Pretend with Arnold Stang
• Autolite Drops Suspense
• Goodbye To Jack Benny (For Now)
• What’s At Stake in the Fall 1954 Midterm Elections
• CBS Cancels The Lux Radio Theatre
• The End of James Stewart’s The Six Shooter
• Looking Ahead to July and Roswell
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The reading material used in today’s episode was:
• On the Air — By John Dunning
• Network Radio Ratings — by Jim Ramsburg
• The Complete Escape and Suspense Logs — By Keith Scott
As well as articles from:
• Broadcasting Magazine
• LIFE Magazine
• Newsweek
• Radio Guide
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On the interview front:
• Parley Baer, Ken Carpenter, Elliott Lewis, and Paula Winslowe spoke to Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingOfRadio.com.
• Herb Ellis, Virginia Gregg, Jack Johnstone, Elliott Lewis, and Herb Vigran spoke to SPERDVAC. For more info, go to SPERDVAC.com.
• John Gibson, Elliott Lewis, Vincent Price, and Arnold Stang spoke to Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear these full interviews at Goldenage-WTIC.org.
• John Dehner and Vic Perrin spoke with Neil Ross at KMPC.
• Dennis Day spoke with John Dunning for 71KNUS.
• Morton Fine was with Dan Haefele.
• Orson Welles with Johnny Carson.
• Jimmy Stewart with Larry King.
• Jack Benny spoke with CBS.
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Selected music featured in today’s episode was:
• Living Without You and Too Much Between Us — By George Winston
• The Last Rose of Summer — By Tom Waits
• Seance on a Wet Afternoon — By John Barry
