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In 1931, David Sarnoff of RCA offered to buy Philo Farnsworth's patents for $100,000, with the stipulation that Farnsworth would become an employee of RCA. Farnsworth refused. [16] In June of that year, Farnsworth joined the Philco company and moved to Philadelphia along with his wife and two children. [17] NBC started to use the NBC chimes ...
The Television Ghost premieres on the experimental W2XAB (1931–1933). Television Today premieres on the experimental W2XAB (1931). W2XAB debuts music segments with Connie Boswell, Doris Sharp, Elliot Jaffee, Grace Yeager, Harriet Lee, and Helen Haynes, among others. W2XCD debuts a semi-regular segment with singer Alice Remsen.
Book. George S. Kaufman and Howard Dietz. Productions. June 3, 1931 until January 16, 1932 Broadway. The Band Wagon is a musical revue with book by George S. Kaufman and Howard Dietz, lyrics also by Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz. It first played on Broadway in 1931, running for 260 performances. It introduced the song "Dancing in the Dark ...
15 Minutes with Bing Crosby unsponsored radio show (March 8 – July 15, 1932, CBS) On March 8, 1932, Crosby commenced evening radio shows on three nights a week for CBS on station WABC, on a sustaining basis, with Freddie Rich's Orchestra. The first week the shows aired on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday in the 6:30–6:45 pm time slot before ...
The March of Time began airing as a weekly series March 6, 1931, on CBS Radio on over 32 stations on Friday evenings. The half-hour program aired Fridays at 8:30 p.m. ET. In 1935 the program was trimmed to 15 minutes and aired five times a week, but after a year returned to its 30-minute weekly format. Suspended in 1939, the series was revived ...
The series began in 1929 as The Chase and Sanborn Choral Orchestra, a half-hour musical variety show heard Sundays at 8:30 p.m. on NBC. When Maurice Chevalier became the show's star, he received a record-breaking salary of $5,000 a week. Violinist David Rubinoff (1897–1986) became a regular in January 1931, introduced as "Rubinoff and His ...
24–30 July – Jehovah's Witnesses make the most extensive radio chain broadcast ever to air up to 1931. The broadcast is of a portion of the group's convention held in Columbus, Ohio, USA. The broadcast is carried by more than 450 radio stations in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States. 18 October – NBC replaces its NBC-Pacific ...
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