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Bill Stern's Sports Newsreel (Colgate Sports Reel)

Aired 1937 - 1953

Also known as The Colgate Sports Newsreel. Featuring Bill Stern, one of the most famed sportscasters of all time.

Considered to be the best sportscaster that has ever lived, Bill Stern made use of rare, yet effective techniques to captivate his audience. Like many other sportscasting legends, Stern also became a part of the Hall of Fame of the American Sportscasters Association. In addition to that, he had his own star in the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame, and included in the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1988.

Stern first went on-air in 1925, when he was hired by a local radio station to report and make commentaries on football games. And then, in 1937, he was offered to work at NBC, particularly at The Colgate Sports Newsreel and on a boxing night on radio every Friday. He was actually one of the first radio personalities to make comments on live boxing fights on television. On May 17, 1939, he covered the baseball match between Columbia and Princeton—the first sporting event to be aired on television.

At the peak of his career, Stern was always compared to and pitted against another talented sportscaster, CBS' Ted Husing. The competition between the two was not only on their position during sports events, but for the rights to broadcast such events as well. Both of them worked on their respective networks for many years.

Stern, after being in NBC for years, had decided to finally move to ABC, where he stayed until 1956. He took the role of a panelist on a game show called The Name's the Same. His tenure at ABC was cut short because of a health problem. Stern was said to have become addicted to painkillers, which first took place when he had his leg amputated due to an accident in 1935.

In the latter part of 1950s, Stern decided to go back to sports broadcasting. His last 15 years was spent doing sports commentaries for Mutual. It can be said that Bill Stern had a profound influence on the sportscasters that we have today. Click here to read more about Bill Stern's Sports Newsreel (Colgate Sports Reel)

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Please enjoy these 227 old time radio episodes:

Air Date	Title	Synopsis
03.02.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (279) guest lawrence tibbett	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream.
03.09.1945	guest jane withers
03.09.1945	guest jane withers
03.30.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (283) guest lena horne	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream.
04.06.1945	guest lena horne	+ Bill Stern brings you the 283rd edition of the Colgate Shave Cream Sports Newsreel featuring stran...
04.06.1945	guest lena horne
04.20.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (285) guest larry mcphail	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. The story of the Kaiser's ashtray, and an Olympic pistol shooti...
04.27.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (286) guest henny youngman	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. Bill Stern brings you the 286th edition of the Colgate Shave Cr...
06.15.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (293) guest kathleen windsor	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. Bill Stern brings you the 293rd edition of the Colgate Shave Cr...
06.22.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (294) guest alan jones	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. Bill Stern brings you the 294th edition of the Colgate Shave Cr...
07.06.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (296) h. v. kaltenborn subs	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. Bill Stern is away on his annual three weeks vacation and Colga...
07.13.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (297) h. v. kaltenborn subs	+ Bill Stern is away on his annual three weeks vacation and Colgate Cream Shave have asked Mr H.V Ka...
07.27.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (299) guest byron nelson	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. The program originates from Chicago. The story of a golfer who ...
08.03.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (300) guest joan edwards	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. Bill Stern tells the story of how John L. Sullivan who many peo...
08.17.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (302) guest eddie rickenbacker	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. Bill Stern tells the story of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker who wa...
08.31.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (304) guest charlie spivak	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. Bill Stern broadcasts from Chicago with a close up of guest sta...
09.06.1945	guest sammy kaye	+ Bill Stern brings you the 533rd edition of the Colgate Shave Cream Sports Newsreel featuring stran...
09.06.1945	guest sammy kaye
09.14.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (306) guest brace beemer	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. The program originates from Detroit. Brace Beemer tells about h...
10.05.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (309) guest pat o'brien	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. Bill Stern’s guest in person is famous movie star Mr Pat O'Br...
11.09.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (314) guest tommy dorsey	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. Guest Tommy Dorsey tells how baseball fans helped the career of...
11.23.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (316) guest frank sinatra	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream.Bill Stern’s guest in person is the one and only Mr Frank Sina...
12.07.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (318) guest joe louis	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. Bill Stern brings you the 318th edition of the Colgate Shave C...
12.14.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (319) guest elsa maxwell	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. Bill Stern brings you the 319th edition of the Colgate Shave Cr...
12.21.1945	bill stern sports newsreel (320) guest ezra stone	+ Sponsored by: Colgate Shave Cream. Bill Stern brings you the 320th edition of the Colgate Shave Cr...

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Stern began his career as a sports announcer in 1925 when he was hired to broadcast football games over WHAM in Rochester. EVERYONE who has even the most casual interest in sports is familiar with Bill Stern's dramatic play-by-play descriptions of the country's top sporting events. He can bring the colorful spectacle of a football game into your living room so vividly that the only things you miss are the biting autumn wind and the hard stadium seats. NBC began broadcasting Stern with Graham McNamee in 1934. Then he was made a guest announcer for a football series the following year. In 1937 he had really arrived, for he was made a regular member of the NBC Special Events Staff. And now he's Sports Director. He's a past master at the art of ad libbing. When there's an unexpected pause during a game, you can always count on Bill to fill in with a human interest story about some member of the team or with an amusing account of some side-light on the day's event. The human interest angle of the news became a regular feature of Bill's daily sports broadcast. It took a lot of research, delving into little-known facts about well-known people to come up with the anecdotes that gave Bill Stern's programs that lively, personal touch. And his listeners loved it! Stern was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988.

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