Time Line
This is a big project and will take time. If you click on a year and nothing happens, it means nothing has been added for that year as yet.
My intention for this section is to include examples of program guides, ads, pictures and I hope, with permissions, to include representative audio so that you can hear what your family was listening to in that year. Sorry, I will not be including program guides for each station in each state (that will be another project), just examples of the most common shows listened to by Australians.
I will include explanations of 'behind the scenes' to explain what we were listening to and why. For example, the arrival of prerecorded radio series on 16" Transcription Disc from the U.S., then the banning of the importation of those Discs and the rise of Australian Radio Production. Followed by the importation of Scripts from the U.S. alongside Australian Productions. That will be followed by the end of the ban and reintroduction of U.S. produced shows.
The first Button is KEY. This lists the Key years in the growth of Australian Radio. That list will continue to be updated and will give you an indication of what years to click on for that information.
The early years of Australian Radio Drama were live. No recordings were made, however gramophone records were used. I will try to include music if I can identify it from the Newspapers and magazines of the day. This will be a learning curve for us all.
I will include Newspaper and Radio Magazine ads from my collection and from the collections of others who are assisting in this project. The idea is to give you a visual array so that you can see the variety of shows we had in Australia. I will include a caption to let you know if it is a U.S recording, U.K recording, Australian in origin or Australian Produced from U.S. scripts.
You will also get to see how Australian Radio changed across the years. Starting with Music, then imported drama, our own home grown shows followed by drama from U.S. scripts. Then the rise of quiz shows followed by the reduction in drama, moving to sports and music dominating the airwaves. You can check out 1956 and shows based on the Olympic Games in Melbourne as an example.
I have more scanned ads than I can include at once, so I will change them around regularly.
If you have any suggestions, please use the contact form.
It may look messy in the beginning until I find a format that will work for each year and lay all the years out the same. I am not a planner, I tend to jump in first.
Ian Grieve
I will include explanations of 'behind the scenes' to explain what we were listening to and why. For example, the arrival of prerecorded radio series on 16" Transcription Disc from the U.S., then the banning of the importation of those Discs and the rise of Australian Radio Production. Followed by the importation of Scripts from the U.S. alongside Australian Productions. That will be followed by the end of the ban and reintroduction of U.S. produced shows.
The first Button is KEY. This lists the Key years in the growth of Australian Radio. That list will continue to be updated and will give you an indication of what years to click on for that information.
The early years of Australian Radio Drama were live. No recordings were made, however gramophone records were used. I will try to include music if I can identify it from the Newspapers and magazines of the day. This will be a learning curve for us all.
I will include Newspaper and Radio Magazine ads from my collection and from the collections of others who are assisting in this project. The idea is to give you a visual array so that you can see the variety of shows we had in Australia. I will include a caption to let you know if it is a U.S recording, U.K recording, Australian in origin or Australian Produced from U.S. scripts.
You will also get to see how Australian Radio changed across the years. Starting with Music, then imported drama, our own home grown shows followed by drama from U.S. scripts. Then the rise of quiz shows followed by the reduction in drama, moving to sports and music dominating the airwaves. You can check out 1956 and shows based on the Olympic Games in Melbourne as an example.
I have more scanned ads than I can include at once, so I will change them around regularly.
If you have any suggestions, please use the contact form.
It may look messy in the beginning until I find a format that will work for each year and lay all the years out the same. I am not a planner, I tend to jump in first.
Ian Grieve
