From: Larry Tighe (larryradio@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 13:12:35 PDT
Howdy List,
These XM satellite radio folks do some great programming. Here's one not to
be missed ... it'll be on channel 04.
Lar
XM Radio's 1940's Channel brings history to life!
D-Day ... the largest amphibious military operation in history. By land,
sea and air . . . 6,000 naval ships and landing craft ... 12,000 aircraft
... 130,000 Allied troops, 18,000 of them parachuting behind enemy lines ...
as the Allies invade Hitler's Europe!
Now ... 60 years later to the minute ... beginning with the first bulletin
at 12:41 AM Eastern War Time, June 6th ... and continuing for the next 40
hours ... hear this historic event unfold just as Americans heard the news
on their radios ... only on XM Radio's 1940's Channel.
In this era before there were satellites and television, Americans got
their news from radio, which relied on Associated Press teletype reports and
shortwave radio for live broadcasts by journalists on the scene. The
information was then delivered to those on the homefront by network
newscasters and commentators who were trusted household names, such as H. V.
Kaltenborn, Morgan Beatty, Merrill Mueller, Richard Harkness and Robert St.
John with the National Broadcasting Company.
These same names will again provide on-going reporting and analysis as
details of what's taking place on the northern coast of France come in to
the NBC newsrooms in New York and Washington on June 6th and 7th, 1944 ...
along with our own Savoy Express reporter, Ed Baxter.
A dramatic radio event of award-winning proportions . . . on XM Radio's
40's Channel . . . where history lives on!
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