Radio brought the news directly into listeners’ living rooms. Among the major news stories broken on radio: the Scopes monkey trial, carried live by Chicago station WGN in 1925; the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster, covered by WLS Chicago in 1937; and Edward R. Murrow’s CBS reports on the Blitz of Britain, airing in 1940.

Lone Wolf Tribe

Lone Wolf Tribe only aired on CBS radio for one season, but it made a huge merchandising impact. Sponsored by Wrigley's gum, this children's series offered dramatized perspective on American Indian life. The narrator was the head of the tribe, Chief Wolf Paw, who prided himself on communicating to the listeners with "the voice that flies.