The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1945–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 62
- Genre
- sports
Sport as tall tale: Stern's weekly reel of heroics, half of it true and all of it delivered like scripture. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
15 dated broadcasts across 82 years on the air, with 80 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Last Train Out · 3 Jun 2025
- 2. Night Broadcast · 10 Jun 2025
- 3. The Case of the Missing Hour · 17 Jun 2025
The Long Silence
4 Aug 2026 · 35 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Dead Air
28 Jul 2026 · 50 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Sign Off
21 Jul 2026 · 1h 5m
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Case of the Missing Hour
14 Jul 2026 · 28 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Night Broadcast
7 Jul 2026 · 43 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Last Train Out
30 Jun 2026 · 58 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Signal at Midnight
23 Jun 2026 · 21 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
A Room Above the Street
16 Jun 2026 · 36 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1945–1950
Other series the network carried while Bill Stern's Sports Newsreel was on the air.
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