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The year 1943 saw a number of significant happenings inradio broadcasting history.

Events

6 January:BBC reporterRichard Dimbleby makes a live recording from aRoyal Air Force nighttime bombing raid onBerlin piloted byGuy Gibson.
15 January:Fernand Grenier broadcasts onRadio Londres offering Communist support forFree France.^[1]
2 May:Fireside chat by thePresident of the United States:On the Coal Crisis.
10 May:NBC, Inc. v. United States is decided, allowing theFederal Communications Commission broad power to regulate the operations of broadcast networks, which results inNational Broadcasting Company being forced to sell off their secondaryNBC Blue Network. Gradually, any and all references to "NBC" will be removed from all Blue Network programming or promotions, and "NBC Red" will become knownjust as NBC Radio.
13 May: In theNetherlands, an ordinance issued by theGerman occupiers requires the surrender to the authorities of all radio sets.
26 July: American propaganda broadcasters for theAxis powers Jane Anderson ("the Georgia Peach"),Robert Henry Best,Douglas Chandler,Edward Delaney,Constance Drexel,Fred W. Kaltenbach,Max Otto Koischwitz and poetEzra Pound are indictedin absentia by a District of Columbia grand jury on charges oftreason.^[2]
28 July:Fireside chat:On Progress of War and Plans for Peace.
8 September:Fireside chat:Opening Third War Loan Drive.
12 October:Edward Noble'sAmerican Broadcasting System offer to purchase theBlue Network and itsO&Os fromNBC gets approval from the FCC; Noble's lone station prior to the purchase,WMCA in New York, is sold off.
Late October:Gustav Siegfried Eins, a Britishblack propaganda station, ceases broadcasting to German troops in Western Europe on the short wave, ostensibly because of aGestapo raid.^[3]
4 November:Abbott and Costello resume theirNBC Radio programme after a six-month hiatus for health reasons,Lou Costello having battled a severe case ofrheumatic fever. While rehearsing, Costello learns thathis youngest son accidentally drowned in the family pool, just two days before his first birthday. The show goes on as scheduled, with no one in the audience having any knowledge of what has happened until the end, when Costello abruptly rushes from the stage in tears. PartnerBud Abbott delivers the tragic news live over the entire network to the shocked audience.^[4]
14 November:Soldatensender Calais, a Britishblack propaganda station, begins broadcasting to German troops in Western Europe from a studio atMilton Bryan in Bedfordshire through the powerful medium waveAspidistra transmitter in southern England, purporting to be an official German military station.^[3]
23 November: BritishForces Broadcasting Service begins operation serving forces overseas.^[5]
3 December:Edward R. Murrow delivers his classic "Orchestrated Hell" broadcast overCBS describing a Royal Air Force nighttime bombing raid on Berlin.
24 December:Fireside chat:OnTehran andCairo Conferences.

Debuts

7 January: "Meet Corliss Archer" debuts onCBS.^[6]
10 January:The Better Half, a quiz show, debuts onMutual.
11 January:A. L. Alexander's Mediation Board debuts onMutual.^[7]
16 January:An American in Russia debuts onCBS.^[7]
15 February:My True Story debuts onNBC Blue/The Blue Network.
21 February:Free World Theatre debuts onNBC Blue/The Blue Network.
18 March:The Busy Mr. Bingle debuts onMutual.^[7]
25 March:The Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore Show debuts on theNBC Red Network.
27 March:Blue Ribbon Town debuts onCBS Radio.^[7]
3 April:The Billie Burke Show airs onCBS Radio Saturday mornings until September 21,1946.^[7]
10 April:The Falcon debuts on theBlue Network.^[7]
31 May:Archie Andrews debuts on theBlue Network.^[7]
2 June:The Jack Carson Show debuts onCBS.^[7]
4 June:Ladies Be Seated debuts on theBlue Network.^[7]
13 June:Calling America debuts onCBS.^[7]
22 June:Johnny Mercer's Music Shop debuts onNBC.^[7]
28 June:The Dreft Star Playhouse debuts onNBC Radio.
5 July:The Adventures of Nero Wolfe debuts on theBlue Network.^[7]
5 July:The Black Hood debuts onMutual.^[7]
5 July:Chick Carter, Boy Detective debuts onMutual.^[7]
7 July:Flashgun Casey debuts onCBS. The program was later titledCasey, Press Photographer;Crime Photographer; andCasey, Crime Photographer.^[7]
8 July:Blind Date debuts onNBC.^[7]
8 July:The Sealtest Village Store debuts on NBC.^[7]
18 July:The Bob Crosby Show debuts onNBC.^[7]
19 July:Broadway Bandbox debuts onCBS.^[8]
24 July:Foreign Assignment debuts onMutual.^[7]
2 August:American Women debuts onCBS.^[7]
8 August:America in the Air debuts onCBS.^[7]
12 September:Dunninger, The Mentalist debuts on theBlue Network.^[7]
13 September:Ed Sullivan Entertains debuts on CBS.^[7]
30 September:The Bird's Eye Open House debuts onCBS.^[7]
11 October:Brave Tomorrow debuts onNBC.^[7]
3 December:The Mysterious Traveler debuts onMutual.^[7]
27 December:Broadway Showtime debuts onCBS.^[7]
Undated:The Black Castle debuts on Mutual.
Undated:Caribbean Voices debuts on theBBC World Service.
Undated:Salty Brine takes over as the host of the morning show-the "T.N.T. Review" onWPRO, a position he will hold until April 28, 1993.

Closings

1 January:Don Winslow of the Navy ends its run on network radio (Blue Network).^[7]
8 January:Are You a Genius? ends its run on network radio (CBS).^[7]
30 January:An American in Russia ends its run on network radio (CBS).^[7]
28 February:Anchors Aweigh ends its run on network radio (Mutual).^[7]
23 April:In Person, Dinah Shore ends its run on network radio (Blue Network).^[7]
10 June:The Busy Mr. Bingle ends its run on network radio (Mutual).^[7]
4 July:Unlimited Horizons ends its run on network radio (NBC).^[7]
31 August: WRTD, Richmond, Virginia, ceased to exist as a result of the merger of the company owning it with the owner ofWRNL, Richmond.^[9]
14 September:Johnny Mercer's Music Shop ends its run on network radio (NBC).^[7]
21 September:The Billie Burke Show ends its run on network radioCBS.^[7]
3 October:Calling America ends its run on network radio (CBS).^[7]
9 October:Chips Davis, Commando ends its run on network radio (CBS).^[7]
26 December:Songs by Sinatra ends its run on network radio (CBS).^[7]

Births

29 January:Tony Blackburn, English radiodisc jockey.
6 April:Roger Cook, Australasian-born British investigative reporter.
6 May:Milton William Cooper (died2001), Americanwriter andshortwave broadcaster.
30 May:Charles Collingwood, Canadian-born actor.
31 July:William Bennett, Americanconservative pundit,politician and radiotalk show host.
17 August:John Humphrys, Welsh-born news broadcaster.
11 September:Brian Perkins, New Zealand-born radio newsreader.
28 September:Mike Dickin (died2006), English radio disc jockey and presenter.
23 October:Roger Scott (died1989), English radio disc jockey.
26 November:Paul Burnett, English radio disc jockey.
27 December:Cokie Roberts (died2019), American broadcast political journalist.
Jaye Michael Davis (died2006), American radio disc jockey and voice ofMemphis'sWDIA starting in1977.
Geoffrey Smith, American jazz percussionist and radio presenter in the UK.

Deaths

23 October:Ben Bernie, 52, Americanjazz violinist and radio personality.

References

^Stourton, Edward (2017).Auntie's War: the BBC during the Second World War. London: Doubleday. pp. 284–5.ISBN 978-0-857-52332-7.
^Shirer, William L. (1943-02-14)."The Propaganda Front"(PDF).The Washington Post. Retrieved2023-12-10.
^^a ^bTaylor, John A. (2005).Bletchley Park's Secret Sisters: Psychological Warfare in World War II. Dunstable: The Book Castle.ISBN 1-903747-35-X.
^"The laughter dies". 15 July 2007.
^"Historical Events in 1943".www.historyorb.com.
^Cox, Jim (2008).This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History. McFarland & Company, Inc.ISBN 978-0-7864-3848-8.
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al ^amDunning, John. (1998).On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3.
^"CBS Sustainers On Lighter Side"(PDF). Broadcasting. June 28, 1943. p. 49. Retrieved21 July 2015.^{[permanent dead link]}
^"WRTD, Richmond, Quits Operation; WRNL Full-Time"(PDF). Broadcasting. September 1, 1940. Retrieved16 January 2015.

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