Mutual Broadcasting System
About This Network
Mutual began in 1934 as a cooperative network built around major independent stations including WOR, WGN, WLW, and WXYZ. Its looser structure gave regional stations and producers more room than the larger centrally controlled networks.
In Golden Radio Hour, Mutual Broadcasting System is tied to 36 programs. The surviving network-linked recordings here run from 1935 to 1965.
Programs with a particularly strong presence here include The Shadow, Wild Bill Hickok, The Cisco Kid, Boston Blackie, Challenge of the Yukon, I Love a Mystery, Lum and Abner, Let George Do It, The Green Hornet, and The Mysterious Traveler.
People who recur often in those network-linked recordings include Richard Aurandt, George W. Trendle, Elsie Thompson, Paul Pierce, Andy Devine, Guy Madison, Charles Lyon, David Hire, Maurice Tarplin, and Jack Mather. These are archive connections, not a claim that everyone on the list was employed directly by the network.
Shows in the GRH Archive
People Heard Across These Recordings
These names come from the credits on recordings preserved here. It is not meant as a complete network staff list.