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On This Day, October 8: Don Larsen Perfect Game and 12 Postseason Baseball Classics
Also featured: John Garfield in Golden Boy, Orson Welles in Algiers.
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On This Day, October 7: 15 Postseason Baseball Classics and Goose Goslin Walk-Off
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On This Day, October 6: 18 Postseason Baseball Classics and Lights Out 'What the Devil'
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On This Day, October 5: 18 Postseason Baseball Classics and Champagne for Caesar
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On This Day, October 4: 1955 Dodgers Championship Game 7 and Gary Cooper in Pride of the Yankees
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On This Day, October 3: Bobby Thomson 'Shot Heard Round the World' and Six World Series Classics
Also featured: Rita Hayworth, Helen Hayes.
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On This Day, October 2: Sandy Koufax 15-K World Series Record and Seven Fall Classics
Also featured: Nancy Wilson Swing Special, Superman Serial Arcs.
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On This Day, October 1: Roger Maris 61st HR and Five World Series Games
Also featured: Lux Radio Theatre, Gunsmoke, Superman Arc.
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Ford Road Show Transcription Disc Date Restoration & Update
This report records the complete audio verification and update of the entire playable run of The Ford Road Show Starring Bing Crosby (CBS, 1957–1958). By transcribing the opening transcription disc slates across all…
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Solving "Date Unknown" Radio Mysteries: Forensic Audio, Multi-Platform Transcripts & Primary Newspaper Scans
In Old-Time Radio (OTR) preservation, collector tapes have circulated for over half a century labeled with vague tags like "Date Unknown", "The Part 19", or completely blank titles. Across the 273,234 recordings in the RadioIndex…
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Unlocking 50 "Date Unknown" Radio Classics: Forensic Transcripts Solve Longstanding OTR Mysteries
Through systematic local Whisper SPEECH RECOGNITION dialogue extraction combined with Jerry Haendiges (jjonez) network logs, J. David Goldin's database, and contemporary broadcast logs, we have resolved 50 previously undated or corrupted radio recordings.
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Comprehensive Episode Title Hygiene & Field Normalization Standard
This report establishes the definitive standard standard for episode title formatting across the entire radio catalog and documents the repository-wide refactoring of 3,679 episode titles across 926 series JSON files in…
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Complete Repository-Wide Title Hygiene & Artifact Elimination
This report establishes the permanent enforcement of standard pure titles across the entire 6,127 series collection in radioindex.org-meta and documents the catalog-wide cleanup of 10,000 episode titles across 593 series files.
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Dating the Undated (Academic Word List register)
A considerable body of American radio broadcasting survives as sound recordings, and the surviving material circulates among private collectors as digital audio files. A significant proportion of the surviving material carries no broadcast…