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There is a guy in the DC area, last name Ellis, sells better-sounding OTR. He may be only selling MP3 nowadays but at one time he'd sell WAV too. I'm sorry to be vague, I forgot his first name and contact details. He was the only source I ever found to get all of the Edward R. Murrow "Hear It Now" programs from 1950-51. That is my favorite non-fiction OTR show, groundbreaking in many ways, a touchstone for electronic journalism. When I was a kid, I used to seek out OTR "nostalgia" shows on the radio, and sent plenty of paper-route money to David Goldin's Radio Yesteryear. But as an adult, I have limited interest in the old drama and other fiction shows. "Dragnet" and "Suspense" are OK for background noise when repairing something in the workshop or the like, but usually I choose music instead. Of great interest still are "news and actuality" broadcasts. Goldin used to have some really neat various snippets of live events coverage that haven't been offered since. I should have bought more of his custom-made half-track reels, but those were $$$$$. -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Watts" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] old thread -- War of the Worlds > Trying to find old radio broadcasts like these in decent condition is a pretty good trick these > days. I'm convinced most old radio shows on the web originate from twenty-five year old cassettes > that were high-speed duplicated on cheap tape and were generally a dozen generations removed from > the original. These cassettes are transferred into a computer using an old Radio Shack dubbing > deck and "restored" by guys who figure that if a little hiss reduction is good, then lots and lots > of it is even better. The final result is then compressed to the lowest bit rate MP3 possible and > posted online. And if the results are nearly unlistenable, well, one website once made the claim > that it was old radio. It wasn't supposed to sound good. > > Randy > > > > ------------------------------ > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 10:06 AM CDT Tom Fine wrote: > >>I think I captured those web pages. Did that website also contain a listing of the Campbell's Soup >>Hour broadcasts with many of the same people? >> >>Mercury Theatre On The Air is my favorite fiction OTR series. I've managed to collect up most of >>the episodes in decent audio quality. >