Stories about finding, dating and restoring old-time radio.
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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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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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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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Decades of reel-to-reel tape copying and cassette circulation left dozens of high-profile radio broadcasts circulating under arbitrary collector labels like "The Part 15", character names, or missing airdates.
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Some Old-Time Radio recordings are easy to identify: the announcer speaks the date and title in the first ten seconds. But others have baffled collectors for over half a century because:
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For over half a century, the Old-Time Radio (OTR) community has lived with a persistent frustration: thousands of surviving recordings have had no verified date or standard identity.