Tom Mix was heard on NBC Radio for the first time. It aired until June
of 1950.

Thomas Edwin Mix (Thomas Hezikiah Mix)
(January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940)

Mix appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were
silent movies. He was Hollywood’s first Western star
and helped define the genre as it emerged in the early
days of the cinema.

Texaco Star Theatre was a comedy-variety show, broadcast on radio
from 1938 to 1949 and telecast from 1948 to 1956. It was one of the
first successful examples of American television broadcasting,
remembered as the show that gave Milton Berle the nickname
"Mr. Television".

Milton Berle (Mendel Berlinger)
(July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002)

Jackson Beck (announcer), Joan Alexander (Lois Lane) and Bud
Collyer (Superman/Clark Kent).

The Adventures of Superman was a long-running radio serial that originally
aired as a syndicated show on New York City’s WOR and ran till March 1,
1951 on ABC radio and the Mutual Broadcasting System. 

Terry and the Pirates was a radio serial adapted from the comic strip of the
same name created in 1934 by Milton Caniff. When the late afternoon series
began, it was heard three times a week, sponsored by  Dari-Rich, airing on
NBC Red Network from November 1, 1937 to June 1, 1938. It switched to
NBC Blue Network on September 26, 1938, continuing until March 22, 1939.

Absent from the airwaves for over two years, it returned shortly before the
Attack on Pearl Harbor, heard in the Midwestern United States on the
Chicago Tribune‘s WGN. That series, sponsored by Libby’s, aired five
days a week from October 16, 1941 to May 29, 1942. Ratings began to
drop in the post-WWII period until the final episode on June 30, 1948.

The central character, Terry Lee, was portrayed at various times by Jackie
Kelk, Cliff Carpenter, Owen Jordan, and Bill Fein. Terry’s buddy Pat Ryan
was played by Bud Collyer, Warner Anderson, Bob Griffin, and Larry
Alexander.

Jackie Daly Kelk
(August 6, 1923 – September 5, 2002)

William Bennett Kilpack (February 6, 1883 – August 17, 1962)

Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons was one of radio’s longest running shows,
airing October 12, 1937 to April 19, 1955, continuing well into the television
era. It was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert, who based it upon Robert
W. Chambers‘ 1906 novel The Tracer of Lost Persons. The sponsors included
Whitehall Pharmacal (makers of Anacin), Dentyne, Aerowax, RCA Victor and
Chesterfield cigarettes. It aired on the NBC Blue network until 1947, when it
switched to CBS.

Bennett Kilpack (above) began as Mr. Keen in 1937 with Arthur Hughes and
then Phil Clarke stepping into the role later in the series.