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WTAW Blue Network Broadcast Day
Tom Turbiville | WTAW Radio Host
Laura Quezada | Transcriber
00:00:00 Dick Bolin (DB)
[Music] College Station, Texas, April 24th, 1947, Dick Bolin talking. Here's the latest news from
the Associated Press…
00:00:07 Associated Press (AP)
He got a touchdown! Oh, doctor!
00:00:10 Speaker 3
… News and Talk, WTAW.
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00:00:12 Tom Turbiville (TT)
This is WTAW, the First 100 Years, I'm Tom Turbiville. October the 6th, 1944, a typical Friday
on WTAW 11:50 a.m. We were one of 116 stations that shared the day's programming with what
was called the Blue Network, formerly the NBC Blue Network, which a year later became the
American Broadcasting Company, ABC. WTAW signed on at 6 a.m.; they shut off at 7 p.m. and
we broadcasted twelve 15-minute shows. The Blue Network broadcast 30 shows, mostly 15
minutes long. The WTAW lineup started with the Texas Farm and Home Show, then the Sun Up
Club at 7:45, Morning Melodies, and then Hollywood Headliners. At 9:30, we came on with
Between the Lines. At 12:15, listeners heard A&M students, like Tom Gernay, on WTAW's
Noonday News. That was followed by Farm Fair and then Tips, Topics, and Tunes. At 3:15,
WTAW came back on with Music for Moderns. Skip to 3:45, and three straight programs,
Treasury Star Salute, Something to Read, and the Children's Storytime. Now the Blue Network
would take the rest of the broadcast day all the way up to 7 o'clock in the evening, with popular
radio entertainment shows, like The Seahound, Dick Tracy, Terry and the Pirates, Hop Harrigan,
Jack Armstrong, The Ed Wynn Show, Captain Midnight, and The Lone Ranger. And that was a
broadcast day in 1944, on WTAW the First 100 Years.