{"id":1604,"date":"2013-06-05T21:02:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T02:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2013-06-05T21:02:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T02:02:52","slug":"d-day-on-the-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=1604","title":{"rendered":"D-Day on the Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dday_af.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1607\" alt=\"D-Day\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dday_af-300x178.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dday_af-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dday_af-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dday_af.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On June 6th, 1944, there was no CNN, no Twitter or Facebook and the task of covering one of the biggest news stories of the century became radio&#8217;s challenge. The\u00a0gargantuan\u00a0task of reporting the D-Day landings in France [<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-XC5WTwBrLGQ\/TVM27MQdI0I\/AAAAAAAAAG0\/rYYLzn4dPEE\/s1600\/D-Day.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">image<\/a>] lead to the invention of the pool broadcast, where every network&#8217;s correspondents filed stories for broadcast across all webs. It was one of the first times that recorded news actualities were allowed to air. Prior to D-Day the networks had policies (and technology) that required news broadcasts to be live.<\/p>\n<p>The CBS coverage of the first 48 hours after D-Day has been preserved and is in circulation among Old Time Radio collectors. In celebration of this historic day, here are three hour-long segments, starting before the official announcement and running through dawn. You&#8217;ll hear some amazing accounts by reporters who helped to define radio news for a generation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/dday\/D-Day Coverage-Part-1.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">CBS D-Day Coverage Part 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/dday\/D-Day Coverage-Part-2.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">CBS D-Day Coverage Part 2<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/dday\/D-Day Coverage-Part-3.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">CBS D-Day Coverage Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about how radio covered D-Day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otr.com\/dday.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>. And you can follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dday7\" target=\"_blank\">D-Day as it happened on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 6th, 1944, there was no CNN, no Twitter or Facebook and the task of covering one of the biggest news stories of the century became radio&#8217;s challenge. The\u00a0gargantuan\u00a0task of reporting the D-Day landings in France [image] lead to the invention of the pool broadcast, where every network&#8217;s correspondents filed stories for broadcast across all webs. It was one of the first times that recorded news actualities were allowed to air. Prior to D-Day the networks had policies (and technology) that required news broadcasts to be live. The CBS coverage of the first 48 hours after D-Day has been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keener","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}