On this date in (commercial radio) history . . .
January 14, 1929
The Great Northern Railway goes on the air with “Empire
Builders,” a ground-breaking half-hour radio program that aired weekly on the
NBC coast-to-coast network until the final broadcast on June 22, 1931.
Originally aired from NBC studios in New York, the program shifted to the new
NBC studios in Chicago’s massive Merchandise Mart in the fall of 1930. This
final season of Empire Builders effectively launched the entertainment careers of
Don Ameche and Bernardine Flynn. Many voices heard on Empire Builders (often
for the first time) were also heard on dozens of popular radio programs in
later years.
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| Newspaper advertisement from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 14, 1929 |
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