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| R-1231 | 12 | 1 | WHAT'S MY LINE? "A 25th Anniversary Salute" (P.V. Soundtrack) 6/16/77 · SALUTE TO THE BEATLES A 1975 look with David Frost · CBS RADIO AT 50 (50th Anniversary) "An Autobiography in Sound" 9/18/77 · CBS RADIO AT 50 (Concluded) Host: Walter Cronkite · CBS Radio Notes 50 Years on Air Today · NEW YORK (AP) -- CBS Radio is 50 years old on Sunday and as Gen. Douglas MacArthur once said: "Old soldiers never die." In this case they don't fade away either · From the general's "old soldiers" to Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" mountainside · CBS's 50 years of radio will be commemorated in a three-hour special beginning 6 p.m. MDT · The special radio program · narrated by Walter Cronkite · takes listeners through the history of the Columbia Broadcasting System · starting with selections from its first presentation · a six-hour musical program carried that September night on 14 stations · There are famous voices · like Edward R. Murrow · the network's first superstar. And there are famous speeches too -- long ones like Richard M. Nixon's resignation and short ones like astronaut Neil Armstrong's "one small step for man" on the moon · There are happy times with George Burns and Gracie Allen · Amos 'n' Andy · Jack Benny · Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. And there are sad times · like Sen. Edward Kennedy's eulogy for his slain brother Robert in 1968 · CBS allocated five months time for the project · with producers drawing from some 1 · 500 hours of tapes · A good deal of the material is from the World War II era · a time when CBS says it provided some 4 · 000 radio broadcasts from both the Pacific and European theaters -- perhaps radio's greatest hour |