Was that newscaster the same George Putnam who moved out to Los Angeles after the war and become one of LA's most popular and most controversial TV news anchors?
Located today around the area of where WJSV was based as of 1939, is the Warner Theatre (on 13th Street NW between E and F Streets NW) and the National Theatre (at this point, E Street NW becomes Pennsylvania Avenue; between 13th and 14th Streets NW). That station's old home, the Earle Building, is now called the Warner Building, and its address known as 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.
The "Our next program will come to you at . . . " byline near the end of the sign-off would be kept on at CBS O&O's for their TV outlets (albeit modified to "Our next regularly-scheduled program will come to you at . . . "
You could argue as well that one of George Putnam's colleagues at WJSV, morning man Arthur Godfrey, pretty much invented the informal, conversational style of radio we all know and use now, when he hosted his wake-up show in Washington starting in 1934 (and from 1941 to 1948, simulcast on WCBS in New York). He took the same informal, breezy style to the CBS-TV network in 1948 and set the pattern for how radio and TV is done by all of us today.
The very same. Putnam was still active in the business (hosting a radio talk show) when he died in 2008...a seven-decade career! He was one of the very few 21st-century radio people who were older than the medium itself!
People talked funny back in the 30s. It sounds almost British the stiff way he talks.
TechnerVideo 1 year ago
@TechnerVideo That's how it was! You had to be very well-spoken before you got a job in the BBC ;)
PM1970 10 months ago
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PBJTA 1 year ago
Was that newscaster the same George Putnam who moved out to Los Angeles after the war and become one of LA's most popular and most controversial TV news anchors?
BobWXXI 1 year ago
Located today around the area of where WJSV was based as of 1939, is the Warner Theatre (on 13th Street NW between E and F Streets NW) and the National Theatre (at this point, E Street NW becomes Pennsylvania Avenue; between 13th and 14th Streets NW). That station's old home, the Earle Building, is now called the Warner Building, and its address known as 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.
wmbrown6 2 years ago
The "Our next program will come to you at . . . " byline near the end of the sign-off would be kept on at CBS O&O's for their TV outlets (albeit modified to "Our next regularly-scheduled program will come to you at . . . "
wmbrown6 2 years ago
Radio announcers were very stiff and formal in those days.
The Late Jack Cullen formally of CKNW in Vancouver, was one of the first announcers to talk in his natural speaking voice.
visaman 2 years ago
You could argue as well that one of George Putnam's colleagues at WJSV, morning man Arthur Godfrey, pretty much invented the informal, conversational style of radio we all know and use now, when he hosted his wake-up show in Washington starting in 1934 (and from 1941 to 1948, simulcast on WCBS in New York). He took the same informal, breezy style to the CBS-TV network in 1948 and set the pattern for how radio and TV is done by all of us today.
BobWXXI 1 year ago
I presume the George Putnam heard at the very start of this clip was the same individual who later became a legend in Los Angeles TV news.
wmbrown6 2 years ago
The very same. Putnam was still active in the business (hosting a radio talk show) when he died in 2008...a seven-decade career! He was one of the very few 21st-century radio people who were older than the medium itself!
640wqbr 2 years ago