In Breaking Walls episode 91, we finish the adult western trilogy with a focus on the period after television decimated radio’s listening audience, forever altering the broadcasting landscape. Dramatic radio’s time as America’s number one entertainment genre was over, but it was far from dead.
Our story won’t conclude on that fabled date of September 30th, 1962 when radio drama supposedly ended forever. We’ll push down the trail through the 1960s, 70s, and 80s as dramatic radio continued to avoid the hangman’s noose.
Highlights:
• Dirty Saturdays
• Gunsmoke Finds Sponsorship.
• Gunsmoke’s TV launch
• NBC and Dr. Sixgun
• Norman Macdonnell and CBS bring a new Western to the Air
• J.B. Kendall, Luke Slaughter, & Paladin
• The End of Gunsmoke
• Horizon’s West and One Last Gasp
• Elliott Lewis—Young At Heart
• Riding off Into the Sunset
• Dirty Saturdays
• Gunsmoke Finds Sponsorship.
• Gunsmoke’s TV launch
• NBC and Dr. Sixgun
• Norman Macdonnell and CBS bring a new Western to the Air
• J.B. Kendall, Luke Slaughter, & Paladin
• The End of Gunsmoke
• Horizon’s West and One Last Gasp
• Elliott Lewis—Young At Heart
• Riding off Into the Sunset