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| JB | 7/6/2002 0 replies |
| This is one I'm sure Elizabeth McLeod will know the answer to, but any input would be helpful: what was the geographic breakdown of network and syndicated OTR? I know that radio early was broadcast all over the place, from New England to California, but when network radio began to dominate in the middle and late twenties New York became the center of broadcasting for a time. As the years went by the lure of Hollywood proved so strong that the networks built west coast studios, and as I remember reading somewhere more than half the prime-time network programming on the networks emanated from LA by 1937. Yet things were never quite as they were to become in the television age, when Hollywood literally replaced New York as the hub of TV production. The radio Lone Ranger I believe always was broadcast from Detroit. Chicago was a big radio center as well; it's where Lights Out began. Rural shows with a strong regional appeal were often broadcast from those regions as well (the South, the West). The news divisions were always east coast, and still are. Then there were the syndicated shows, and I have no idea where they came from. It's kind of a fun topic, since in theory there's no reason why, say, an urban show like Nightbeat couldn't come from Little Rock, or Lum and Abner from Fairbanks, Alaska. It made sense for television to ultimately go west, but radio, it seems, was more spread around. < |