Stations Listed
KYW - 1020
WCAM - 1280
WCAU - 1170
WDAS - 1370
WFIL - 560
WIBG - 970
WIP - 610
WPEN - 920
WTEL - 1310
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Saturday, April 30, 1938
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2 pm
WIBG - Uncle Jim's Revue
WCAU - organ music
WIP - The Friends Program
KYW - The Marietta College Glee Club, Marietta, Ohio
WDAS - The Ukrainian Hour
WFIL - Variety Show : Ceremonies from the New York World's Fair grounds
2:15 pm
WFIL - Movie Talk
WCAU - The Philadelphia Phillies - Boston Braves Baseball Game
KYW - string ensemble with tenor Hal Gordon
2:30 pm
WPEN - dance tunes
WFIL - dance music
WIP - hillbilly program
KYW - orchestra with vocalists
3 pm
WDAS - The Slovak Hour
WFIL - variety program from London, England
KYW - orchestra with vocalists
WIP - Sports Jamboree
3:15 pm
KYW - Arrival of the United States Naval Fleet in San Pedro Harbor in California
3:30 pm
WIBG - A Cappella Choir
4 pm
WDAS - The Polish Hour
WFIL - The Coolidge Quartet
- KYW - Stamp Talk
4:15 pm
KYW - A Job to Choose
4:30 pm
KYW - Jan Savitt and the Top Hatters Orchestra
4:45 pm
WPEN - unemployment compensation talk
WCAU - The Happy Valley Boys
WFIL - The Penn Relays from Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania
KYW - The Maryland Hunt Cup Race
5 pm
WDAS - The Lithuanian program
WTEL - The Sunday School Lesson
WCAU - The Penn Relays from Franklin Field, University of Pennsylvania
WFIL - Sketch
KYW - The Great Plays: "The Playboy of the Western World"
5:30 pm
WCAU - Will McCuoe's Orchestra
WTEL - dance tunes
WFIL - dance music
WIP - political talk
WPEN - Italian program
5:45 pm
WIP - News
WFIL - children's program
WCAU - Ben Alley, tenor
5:50 pm
WDAS - sports talk
6 pm
WIP - The Catholic Hour
WFIL - sports talk
KYW - News and music
WDAS - dance tunes
WPEN - Italian program
WCAU - News and sports
6:15 pm
WCAU - children's program with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
WIP - hillbillies
WFIL - United Business Men
WIBG - religious program
KYW - Federal Business Forum
6:30 pm
KYW - Sports with Paul Douglas
WFIL - News and sports talk
WTEL - German program
WIP - sports talk
WDAS - sports talk
6:45 pm
WFIL - Chick Webb and His Orchestra featuring Ella Fitzgerald
WDAS - Comment
KYW - Die Meistersinger by Wagner
WIP - Uncle WIP
7 pm
KYW - The Philadelphia Civic Symphony Orchestra
WCAU - Artie Shaw and His Orchestra
WPEN - Italian program
WIP - dance music
WFIL - The Message of Israel with Rabbi S. Goldenson
WDAS - Joseph Frasetto and his Orchestra
7:15 pm
WIP - operetta music
WCAU - The Drake Relays, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
7:30 pm
WFIL - Ernie Florito's Orchestra with vocalists
KYW - Youth and the World
WCAU - dramatization
WIP - Comment
WDAS - concert ensemble
7:45 pm
WIP - songs
WDAS - dance orchestra
8 pm
KYW - The Southern California Band and Orchestra Festival
WIP - Graff's Orchestra
WFIL - Pat Barnes, orchestra and vocalists
WCAU - The Swing Club
WDAS - The Italian Hour
WPEN - Jewish program
WTEL - Lithuanian program
8:15 pm
WIP - The Philadelphia Boosters Association Talks
8:30 pm
WCAU - Music in the Morgan Manner with Russ Morgan
WIP - bridge discussion
KYW - Enric Madriguera of His Orchestra
WFIL -musicals
9 pm
WIP - America Sings
WCAU - The Professor's Quiz
KYW - Al Roth's Orchestra
WFIL - Barn Dance with Henry Burr
WDAS - Jewish program
WPEN - variety show (until midnight)
9:30 pm
WCAU - Mary Eastman and Bill Perry Songs with Gus Haenachen's Orchestra
KYW - Delmar's Orchestra
WIP - travel talk
9:45 pm
WIP - vocal duo
10 pm
KYW - Symphony orchestra with Pierre Montieux as guest conductor
WFIL - orchestra with vocalists
WCAU - Your Hit Parade
WDAS - dance tunes
WIP - The Hays Symphony Orchestra, Fort Hays State University, Northwest Kansas
10:30 pm
WIP - dance orchestra
WFIL - Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra
10:45 pm
WIP - News
WCAU - Labor Problems and Solutions with M. H. Syms
10:50 pm
WCAU - "Honest Advertising, an Instrument of Confidence" by Secretary of Commerce, Daniel Roper
11 pm
WFIL - News
WIP - dance orchestra
WCAU - The Johnny Crawford Dance Orchestra
11:15 pm
WFIL - Abe Lyman and His Orchestra
11:30 pm
WCAU - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
KYW - news and organ music
WIP - Felton's Orchestra
WFIL - Horace Heidt and His Orchestra
11:45 pm
KYW - dance orchestra
12 midnight
KYW - hawaiian music
WCAU -Salute to Hollywood (until 2 am)
WIP - dance music (until 1 am)
12:30 am
KYW - Blue Barron and His Orchestra
1 am
KYW - The Missing Persons Report
From the official archives of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia
Researched by Broadcast Pioneers member Gerry Wilkinson
All Rights Reserved
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