Sponsored by Wrigley's Gum and carried over the CBS radio network from January 7, 1940 to August 1, 1943. The series then left the air while Gene Autry left for service in the Army Air Corps. After his return, the program was heard again from September 23, 1945 to May 13, 1956. Gene enjoyed a career in personal appearances, in the motion pictures, on radio and later on television. He was billed as "America's Favorite Cowboy."
- 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.