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CHRONOLOGY
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NEW YORK YEARS
(1935-1939)
 - July 7: New York City. First network Vox Pop broadcast. Parks Johnson (left) and co-host Jerry Belcher (right) interview Sam B. Duffy (center) during the first network Vox Pop broadcast, NBC.Sunday evenings 7:30pm-8:00pm. Begins broadcasting for Fleischman's. First of 321 (from 1935-1940) broadcasts from New York City before the war. Would make 51 broadcasts from the state of New York during the war and 30 after the war.
- July 28: Lobby. Hotel New Yorker. First of regular weekly broadcasts from 12 New York City hotels between July 28, 1935 and November 16, 1939. The hotels included:, Barbizon Plaza Hotel, Commodore Hotel, Governor Clinton Hotel, Hotel Lexington, Hotel New Yorker, McAlpin Hotel, Park Central Hotel, Pennsylvania Hotel, Shelton Hotel, St. George Hotel, St. Moritz Hotel, and the Taft Hotel.
- October 13: Begins broadcasting for Molle Shaving Cream. Sunday afternoons 2:30pm-3:00pm.
 - November 10: Lobby. RCA Building. First of ? broadcasts from the lobby of the RCA Building between November 10, 1935 and ??.
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- January 7: Continues broadcasting for Molle Shaving Cream. Moves to Tuesday evenings from 9:00pm to 9:30pm.
- October 6: Lobby, Hotel New Yorker. New York City. Jerry Belcher's final Vox Pop broadcast.
- October 13: Lobby, Hotel New Yorker. New York City. Wally Butterworth's first Vox Pop broadcast.
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 - October 24: First Radio Newsreel program.
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- June 5: Final Radio Newsreel program
- October 1: Begins broadcasting for Kentucky Club Tobacco. Saturday evenings 9:00pm to 9:30pm.
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 - May 6: RCA Building. New York World's Fair. Parks Johnson and Wally Butterworth meet Electro at the New York World's Fair. First of 25 regular broadcasts from the New York World's Fair between May 1939 and October 26, 1939, with an additional broadcast on August 15, 1940.
- October 5: Begins broadcasting for CBS. Thursday evenings from 7:30pm to 8:00pm.
- December 7: "Silver Meteor". Washington, D.C, first location outside New York City since leaving Houston. First of 11 broadcasts from Washington DC: 2 before the war, 7 during the war and 2 after the war.
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