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The fireside chats attracted more listeners than the most popular radio shows, which were heard by 30 to 35 percent of the radio audience. Roosevelt's fireside chat of December 29, 1940 was heard by 59 percent of radio listeners. His address of May 27, 1941, was heard by 70 percent of the radio audience. [9]: 240
A popular government wartime radio show, performed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was known as "fireside chats". Two of the most famous programs on the radio show were entitled "On National Security" and "On the Declaration of War with Japan". [15] "The Arsenal of Democracy" was a slogan coined by President Roosevelt during his national ...
Mutual Broadcasting System. The Mutual Broadcasting System (commonly referred to simply as Mutual; sometimes referred to as MBS, Mutual Radio or the Mutual Radio Network) was an American commercial radio network in operation from 1934 to 1999. In the golden age of U.S. radio drama, Mutual was best known as the original network home of The Lone ...
Some modern estimates peg his listenership at approximately 30 million listeners. [42] President Franklin D. Roosevelt's irregularly scheduled fireside chats, simulcast on all of the major networks, consistently reached over 50 percent of the listening audience during his last five years in office. [43]
Franklin D. Roosevelt first used what would become known as fireside chats in 1929 as Governor of New York. [5] His third gubernatorial address—April 3, 1929, on WGY radio—is cited by Roosevelt biographer Frank Freidel as being the first fireside chat. [6] As president he continued the tradition, which he called his fireside chats. The ...
The "Arsenal of Democracy" quotation from Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chat of December 29, 1940, is carved into the stone of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. "Arsenal of Democracy" was the central phrase used by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a radio broadcast on the threat to national security, delivered on December 29, 1940—nearly a year before the United States ...
Fireside chat by the President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, On the European War, advocating U.S. neutrality. Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King, in English, and Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe, in French, give an international radio address stating the Dominion's intention to declare war. [6]
Thomas and Vachon will be the subjects of fireside chats. The 3rd Conference looks set to take a bull by its horns, with at least one panel focusing on the U.S. landscape, at a time when a lack of ...