Talk shows through the ages

[Dan.Strassberg]

Barry Gray??? He was a late-night talk host in New York (WMCA, for
sure, WOR perhaps) for many, many, many years. I think he had already
started in Radio by the mid-late '40s. I do not recall that he was
doing two-way talk on a regular basis real early on, but that doesn't
mean he didn't experiment with it. I would think that it could not
have been done prudently without the seven-second (or so) delay and
that depended on the availability of tape recorders. In 1946, there
were wire recorders for sure, but I don't think that Poniatoff
(Ampex--for Alexander M Poniatoff) had produced any commercially
marketed tape recorders until probably 1947 or 1948--but I could be
wrong.

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Subject: Re: Talk shows through the ages


> At 12:07 PM 8/28/2007, Dan.Strassberg wrote:
>>I'm pretty sure that two-way telephone talk had been tried
>>(successfully) before WMEX and Jerry Williams did it here.
>
> I've got research on this that says some experiments with it were
> done in the 1940s.  I believe Barry Grant was one who did those
> experiments in New York, circa 1946.