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network radio’s greatest program!
Tribute Pages
**New for April 2024 **
Tony Randall & Ted Steele host Monitor ’69
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Frank Blair & Henry Morgan host Monitor ’66
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David Wayne, Gene Rayburn, Barry Nelson & Merrill Mueller host Christmas Weekend Monitor ’65
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Below: Monitor ’64 hosts (from left) Frank Blair, James Daly, Gene Rayburn, Barry Nelson & David Wayne (courtesy Louis Castaing)
**One more note**
Jodie Peeler — a broadcast historian and great friend of this website — has just written “the” definitive biography of Dave Garroway, the first “Today” host and one of the first and greatest “Monitor” hosts. You can find out about it here
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On these pages, you can hear — and read about — NBC Radio’s innovative, and legendary, weekend-long “Monitor” — which aired from 1955 to 1975. It started as a broadcasting experiment — quickly became a smash hit — and wound up becoming an institution. We are proud to present and preserve the “Monitor” story here.
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