…world’s first commercial radio station, KDKA, began broadcasting in Pittsburgh in 1920.
Broadcast History: 27 January 1956 to 22 September 1957
The CBS Radio Workshop was one of American network radio's last attempts to hold onto, and perhaps recapture, some of the demographics they had lost to television in the post-World War Two era.
The premiere broadcast was a two-part adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, introduced and narrated by Huxley. It took a unique approach to sound effects, as described in a Time (February 6, 1956) review that week:
COTY 48-10-22 The Poisoner of Chiliwaw
CBSRW 560824 31 Billion Dollar Failure of Fi
AGDY5209xx - Arthur Godfrey Time [107]
BCS510425 - Chesterfield Show - Rose Marie and Louis Armstrong [474]
HP491103 - Col Effingsham's Raid [407]
