The run
- Network
- Networks
- Years active
- 1930–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 19
- Genre
- music
A commercial persona with a band behind it — a series that says as much about American advertising as about music. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
6 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 96 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. A Room Above the Street · 31 Mar 2026
- 2. Signal at Midnight · 7 Apr 2026
- 3. The Last Train Out · 14 Apr 2026
The Last Train Out
4 Aug 2026 · 40 min
The one everybody argues about.
Signal at Midnight
28 Jul 2026 · 55 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
A Room Above the Street
21 Jul 2026 · 18 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Long Silence
14 Jul 2026 · 33 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Dead Air
7 Jul 2026 · 48 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Sign Off
30 Jun 2026 · 1h 3m
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Case of the Missing Hour
23 Jun 2026 · 26 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Night Broadcast
16 Jun 2026 · 41 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
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Networks in 1930–1955
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