Big Sister
Originally broadcast on CBS, 7 June 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Radio
D-Day: The Complete Broadcast Day
CBS / NBC
CBS / NBC · 1944–1944
302 EpisodesSeasonalPGSince 1944
The run
- Network
- CBS / NBC
- Years active
- 1944–1944
- Surviving broadcasts
- 302
- Genre
- news
Two American networks recorded their entire output for 6 June 1944. These reconstructions run the complete broadcast day from the first Allied communiqué through the evening bulletins, including President Roosevelt's prayer, correspondent reports relayed from London, and the ordinary programming that continued between flashes. The recordings are public domain and stream from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: CBD440606CBSDDayCBS
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
1 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
JFMAMJJASOND
1944
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
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Restored broadcasts from 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. CBD- CBS D-Day0300 · 6 Jun 1944
- 2. Complete Broadcast Day Part 004 · 6 Jun 1944
- 3. CBD- NBC0500-News · 6 Jun 1944
- 01
CBD- CBS D-Day0300
6 Jun 1944 · 1h 6m
This will include a current CBS D-Day directory with some additions
- 02
Complete Broadcast Day Part 004
6 Jun 1944 · 1h 5m
Old Time Radio Programs, Complete Broadcast Day, D Day, June 06 1944
- 03
CBD- NBC0500-News
6 Jun 1944 · 39 min
CBS / NBC · 1944–1944
- 04
CBD- NBC1615-News
6 Jun 1944 · 14 min
CBS / NBC · 1944–1944
- 05
CBS Complete Broadcast Day D-Day 1944-06-06 Part 005
6 Jun 1944 · 1h 1m
This upload contains CBS Radio's complete broadcast day for D-Day, June 6, 1944. Coverage begins in the early overnight hours on June 6, and continues into the early hours of June 7. The broadcast is broken into 24 hour-long segments. The professionalism, quality and integrity of the reporting is refreshing.
- 06
NBC Broadcast D-Day 1944-06-06 (14) 10:00 Nancy Osgood
6 Jun 1944 · 15 min
This upload contains the complete broadcast day for NBC Radio on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The broadcast begins at 2:50 a.m. Eastern War Time and continues until 6:00 p.m. on June 7, 1944. Not only is the news coverage professional and excellent at providing a real-time look at what the American people were learning as news was breaking, it is interesting to hear so many different religious leaders offer prayers in support of the invasion, the soldiers and the country. A different time.
- 07
NBC Broadcast D-Day 1944-06-06 (37) 19:00 News Of The World
6 Jun 1944 · 29 min
This upload contains the complete broadcast day for NBC Radio on D-Day, June 6, 1944. The broadcast begins at 2:50 a.m. Eastern War Time and continues until 6:00 p.m. on June 7, 1944. Not only is the news coverage professional and excellent at providing a real-time look at what the American people were learning as news was breaking, it is interesting to hear so many different religious leaders offer prayers in support of the invasion, the soldiers and the country. A different time.
- 08
CBD- CBS D-Day1115SecondHusband
7 Jun 1944 · 14 min
This will include a current CBS D-Day directory with some additions
Same night on the air
7 Jun 1944
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 7 Jun 1944.
Lorenzo Jones
10 episdoes of lorenzo jones.comedy,soap opera
Lorenzo Jones
The few surviving episodes of this classic comic radio soap--an unusual entry from the fabled Frank and Anne Hummert soap factory. Karl Swenson as Lorenzo Jones; Betty Garde and Lucille Wall as his wife, Belle; Joseph Julian as Sandy Matson; John Brown or Frank Behrens as Jim Barker; Mary Wickes, Grace Keddy, or Nancy Sheridan as Irma Barker. Announcers: Don Lowe or George Putnam. Writers: Theodore and Mathilde Ferro.
Also on CBS / NBC
CBS / NBC in 1944–1944
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What it became
The broadcast desk
Wartime correspondence and Cavalcade of America established the daily explainer and the narrated history hour long before either had a feed.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
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