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    The Eveready Hour was the first commercially sponsored variety program in the history of broadcasting. It premiered December 4, 1923 (or, according to...
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  • Eveready Battery Company, Inc. is an American manufacturer of electric battery brands Eveready and Energizer, owned by Energizer Holdings. Its headquarters...
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    portions of the nation with their brand names and slogans in an efficient manner. At first the network's expansion was slow. In 1924, the Eveready Hour was broadcast...
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  • being the announcer for several popular old-time radio programs including The Eveready Hour, Bill and Betty, Popeye the Sailor and Terry and the Pirates...
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  • early success for the "WEAF chain" was The Eveready Hour, the first sponsored program to be broadcast over a radio network, paid for by the National Carbon...
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    Rogers, Wendell Hall and Carson Robison during the Presidential Election Night broadcast of The Eveready Hour over WEAF and an 18-station hook-up. Before...
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    (who popularized the dramatic serial); The Eveready Hour creative team (which began with one-act plays but was soon experimenting with hour-long combinations...
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  • Eveready Industries India Ltd. (EIIL) (originally known as Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL)) is an Indian company that manufactures and markets batteries...
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  • Melodies The Eno Crime Club Escape Ethel and Albert Europe Confidential The Evelyn Preer Memorial Program: 57  Ever Since Eve The Eveready Hour Everyman's...
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    1925 and 1941, including being the conductor for The Eveready Hour, regarded as the first major commercial broadcast and the first major variety show. His...
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  • WFAN (AM) (category Sports radio stations in the United States)
    was The Eveready Hour, which debuted over WEAF in December 1923, and began to be carried over a rapidly growing number of stations in early 1924. The first...
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    the National Carbon Company to host the Eveready Hour a pioneer commercially sponsored variety program on WEAF in New York. On November 4, 1924, the program...
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    picture for the November 4, 1924, Eveready Hour broadcast. Neither the musicians nor the instrumentation match the 1918 photograph of the orchestra cited...
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  • Broadcasting Company of America (category Defunct radio broadcasting companies of the United States)
    was The Eveready Hour, which debuted over WEAF in December 1923, and began to be carried over a rapidly growing number of stations in early 1924. The first...
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  • The Dodge Victory Hour Dragnet The Dreft Star Playhouse Drene Time Duffy's Tavern Easy Aces The Eddie Cantor Show The Eternal Light The Eveready Hour...
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    Belle Baker (category People from the Lower East Side)
    performer on The Eveready Hour, broadcasting's first major variety show, which featured Broadway's top headliners. Baker continued performing through the 1930s...
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    debuted on radio as a substitute singer on The Eveready Hour, and he was a regular on radio and television in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s with personalities...
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  • List of U.S. radio programs (category Lists of mass media in the United States)
    (1928–1939) The Eno Crime Club (1931–1936) Escape (1947–1954) Eternal Light (1946–1970s) Ethel and Albert "eTown" (1991–present) The Eveready Hour (1923–1930)...
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  • Station, Ziegfeld Follies, Portia Faces Life and The Eveready Hour. Her debut on The Eveready Hour was in the title role of a production of Joan of Arc on...
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  • singers Thomas Edison's Attic: "Blues Singer Martha Copeland Sings on The Eveready Hour", May 15, 1928. Chadbourne, Eugene. "Martha Copeland: Biography"....
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    Austria. 12 December – The British Broadcasting Company's Swansea relay station in Wales, 5SX, goes on air. 12 February – The Eveready Hour debuts on WEAF. It...
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    together as members of the Eveready Mixed Quartet on The Eveready Hour. Beginning in 1930, Harrison performed on the Broadway stage in the plays This One Man...
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  • in the hospital. They performed with B. A. Rolfe and His Lucky Strike Orchestra, Nathaniel Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra on The Eveready Hour, and...
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    Reginald Barlow (category Canadian military personnel of the Second Boer War)
    switching over to film. He was director of the Wright Huntington Players, narrated for the Eveready Hour, and on at least one occasion directed a film...
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  • on WJZ during the 1920s. His reading in 1923 inspired George Furness of the National Carbon Company to produce The Eveready Hour, the first commercially...
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    December 1923 (category Months in the 1920s)
    approaches to the ten commandments by members of the McTavish family. The Eveready Hour, the first commercially sponsored variety program in the history of...
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    March 29, 2020. "Eveready D14 Hearing Aid "A" Battery". Blaukatz Battery Encyclopaedia "About Eveready®". Eveready. Archived from the original on May 9...
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    for the purpose, but the ampere-hour capacity of dry cells was too low at the time to be of practical use in this service.) The term comes from the days...
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    Kerry Marx (category The Great Eighties Eight members)
    toys Captain Planet Toys Chevrolet Chex Cereal Churchill Downs Citgo CMT Eveready Batteries Ford Trucks General Motors Goody's Department Stores H&R Block...
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    (India) Ltd. Eveready ended clean-up on the site in 1998, when it terminated its 99-year lease and turned over control of the site to the state government...
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