In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.
I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.
For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully by King George VI to inspire the British people to fight invasion.
When television came out, there was concern it would kill radio.
I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.
Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.
But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.