The past week was a somewhat busy one, so it would be no surprise if you missed a post or two here at First Arkansas News.
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We’re continuing with a report started Friday about CBS Radio Mystery Theater. That program was started by Hiram Brown in 1974 and ran through 1982, thriving on both nostalgia for old time radio and new fans of the program, which aired every weeknight throughout its run. Paul Chester founded CBSRMT.com so that visitors can listen to the original 1,399 shows produced for the series. There is no charge to listen to the shows or find out more about the series through CBSRMT.com.
Fans of CBS Radio Mystery Theater have their favorite …

Back in 1974, Hiram Brown established a new radio drama — the CBS Radio Mystery Theater (CBSRMT).
The program owed much to old time radio (OTR) programs, even if it aired long after the Golden Age of radio had passed. From January 1974 through the end of 1982, 1,399 episodes were produced and broadcast every weeknight.  That fact leads to a question — how did the program find an audience at a time when OTR was virtually extinct?
Paul Chester of CBSRMT.com — a site dedicated to the preservation of CBS Radio …

We’re making a change or two here at First Arkansas News and figured we’d pass them along to our loyal readers.
Specifically, we’re moving Dr. Zodiac’s horoscope and our Weekend OTR feature to another site, The Natural State Hawg. Why? Well, there are a couple of reasons for that.
First of all, The Natural State Hawg is more geared for such things. We’re talking about purely entertainment items when it comes to horoscopes and reruns of old time radio programs, and they’re kind of out of place on a news site. Don’t …

Before getting into this week’s episode, we’ve got a bit of news to pass on to our readers — from this point forward, we will also post episodes from our Weekend OTR series on The Natural State Hawg.
Why? Call it simulcasting (if you want) or an experiment (if you prefer). Way back before Ethan C. Nobles started First Arkansas News, he established The Natural State Hawg and has essentially neglected it over the past couple of years. It makes sense to post some entertainment features over there, then, so that …

Well, the holidays have ended so it’s time to focus yet again on “typical” old time radio shows in our Weekend OTR series.
Of course, that’s not an entirely bad thing, is it? Holiday OTR programs are great, of course, but there’s a lot to be said for old time radio in general, right? At any rate, we’ve picked out an episode of Down Our Way for you this week and that was a pretty good — yet fairly unknown these days — program featuring life in small town America. As …

Happy New Year’s to all. It’s only fitting that we at First Arkansas News start off 2012 with an old time radio episode.
Yes, we did post one New Year’s episode the other day, but there’s no harm in another one, is there? No, of course there’s not. It’s downright impossible to have too much of a good thing in some instances, right? So, we’ve got a dandy comedy — a Fibber McGee and Molly episode — on tap for you today. Of course, we post at least one old time …

Happy New Year to all from First Arkansas News. Here’s hoping that 2012 is good to all of us.
It’s the weekend so, of course, we’ve got another installment in our Weekend OTR series. And, since it’s New Year’s Eve, we’re making this one part of our Holiday OTR series. It’s a Gunsmoke episode in which someone starts out the New Year in a rather unusual way. How unusual? Well, you’ll just have to listen and find out, won’t you?
Before doing that, please keep in mind that this episode — like …

Merry Christmas to everyone. We at First Arkansas News have a little something special planned for you this weekend — not the typical, single episode that we typically feature in our Weekend OTR series, but three old time radio shows.
Why? Because it’s Christmas and that means its time to do something a little extra for our readers. So, get ready to click away and get absolutely lost in the joy of the season. By the way, it’s come to our attention that the audio players we use work best with …

As odd as it may sound, Christmas is just around the corner.
Odd? Yes, indeed. It rather feels like 2011 just got started, didn’t it? At any rate, we at First Arkansas News have some fun this time of year by putting up at least one Christmas OTR episode per weekend. This year we expanded on that Christmas OTR goodness by posting the complete episodes for three holiday serials. Click here to listen to those. We update those daily, so stop in through Christmas to listen to episodes of The Cinnamon …