The Jack Benny Program
***********SOME SHOWS SOUND QUALITY NOT GOOD********Jack Benny first appeared on radio as a guest of Ed Sullivan in 1932. He was then given his own show later that year, with Canada Dry Ginger Ale as a sponsor --The Canada Dry Program, beginning May 2, 1932, on the NBC Blue Network and continuing there for six months until October 26, moving the show to CBS on October 30. With Ted Weems leading the band, Benny stayed on CBS until January 26, 1933.Arriving at NBC on March 17, Benny did The Chevrolet Program until April 1, 1934. He continued with The General Tire Revue for the rest of that season, and in the fall of 1934, for General Foods as The Jell-O Program Starring Jack Benny (1934–42) and, when sales of Jell-O were affected by sugar rationing during World War II, The Grape Nuts Flakes Program Starring Jack Benny (Later the Grape Nuts and Grape Nuts Flakes Program) (1942–44). On October 1, 1944, the show became The Lucky Strike Program Starring Jack Benny, when American Tobacco's Lucky Strike cigarettes took over as his radio sponsor, through the mid-1950s. By that time, the practice of using the sponsor's name as the title began to fade.The show returned to CBS on January 2, 1949, as part of CBS president William S. Paley's notorious "raid" of NBC talent in 1948-49. There it stayed for the remainder of its radio run, which ended on May 22, 1955. CBS aired repeats of previous 1953-55 radio episodes from 1956 to 1958 as The Best of Benny for State Farm Insurance, who later sponsored his television program from 1960 through 1965.
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Show overview
The Jack Benny Program has published 100 episodes during 2020. That works out to roughly 45 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 28 min and 30 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Comedy show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 5.9 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by [email protected] (Entertainment Radio).
From the publisher
***********SOME SHOWS SOUND QUALITY NOT GOOD********Jack Benny first appeared on radio as a guest of Ed Sullivan in 1932. He was then given his own show later that year, with Canada Dry Ginger Ale as a sponsor --The Canada Dry Program, beginning May 2, 1932, on the NBC Blue Network and continuing there for six months until October 26, moving the show to CBS on October 30. With Ted Weems leading the band, Benny stayed on CBS until January 26, 1933.Arriving at NBC on March 17, Benny did The Chevrolet Program until April 1, 1934. He continued with The General Tire Revue for the rest of that season, and in the fall of 1934, for General Foods as The Jell-O Program Starring Jack Benny (1934–42) and, when sales of Jell-O were affected by sugar rationing during World War II, The Grape Nuts Flakes Program Starring Jack Benny (Later the Grape Nuts and Grape Nuts Flakes Program) (1942–44). On October 1, 1944, the show became The Lucky Strike Program Starring Jack Benny, when American Tobacco's Lucky Strike cigarettes took over as his radio sponsor, through the mid-1950s. By that time, the practice of using the sponsor's name as the title began to fade.The show returned to CBS on January 2, 1949, as part of CBS president William S. Paley's notorious "raid" of NBC talent in 1948-49. There it stayed for the remainder of its radio run, which ended on May 22, 1955. CBS aired repeats of previous 1953-55 radio episodes from 1956 to 1958 as The Best of Benny for State Farm Insurance, who later sponsored his television program from 1960 through 1965.
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The Jack Benny Program JB Back From Far East USO Tour (Pr Snd_
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The Jack Benny Program WTS MC Jack Benny; Chico Marx
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The Jack Benny Program JB Who is the Best Comedian, Benny or Allen
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The Jack Benny Program JB NBC 10th Anniversary Tribute to JB -HOST Rudy Vallee
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The Jack Benny Program JB The 20th Anniversary Banquet
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The Jack Benny Program JB Captain Horatio Hornblower
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The Jack Benny Program JB 1974-10-23 JB & Mel B on Johnny Carson NBC TV Show
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The Jack Benny Program JB 1955-05-15 A Friend At Union Station
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The Jack Benny Program JB 1954-03-21 Jack Listens To Mean Old Man On Radio
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The Jack Benny Program JB 1953-12-23 (INC) Comm Perf Host Jack Benny
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The Jack Benny Program JB 1953-09-13 Back from Vacation in Hawaii
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The Jack Benny Program JB 1952-03-02 From Palm Springs - Danny Kaye, Frank Sinatra, George Burns, Groucho Marx
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The Jack Benny Program JB 1951-12-09 Mel Blanc as Indian
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The Jack Benny Program JB 1950-11-26 Jack Tries to Buy USC - UCLA Game Tickets
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The Jack Benny Program JB 1949-04-17 Easter Parade
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The Jack Benny Program JB 1949-02-06 Don Wilson\'s Contract (Vincent Price & claudette Colbert)
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The Jack Benny Program JB 1948-12-19 Christmas Wallet (For Don Wilson)
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The Jack Benny Program JB 1948-05-30 I Was Framed
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The Jack Benny Program JB 1948-04-04 Borrows Bing Crosby\'s Oscar; The Ink Spots; Money or ...)
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The Jack Benny Program JB 1948-03-07 Jack is the Walking Man
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