WALTER WINCHELL "JERGENS JOURNAL," FEB. 25 1945

WALTER WINCHELL "JERGENS JOURNAL," FEB. 25 1945
I have collected some of the “rapid fire” radio reports by Walter Winchell (1897-1972) which seem appropriate to share on my channel. Say what you want about Winchell, he had a huge radio audience in his radio heyday. My generation largely remembers Winchell long after his radio years as the narrator of the Desilu Productions TV program “The Untouchables” (1959-1963). The Winchell of radio was highly opinionated and feared by many as he had the ability to make or break careers with a comment or two during his weekly newscasts, which were more commentary than actual news reports. Here is Winchell in his prime. This Sunday night report is chock-a-block with World War II news, with the war in its final months.

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The network was still referring itself as The Blue Network of the American Broadcasting Company until December that year.

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Interesting. I know that ABC got underway in 1943, but wasn't sure when the complete on-air transition took place.

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You can tell by the multipath distortion, this was recorded off of short wave interesting