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George Denny of Washington, one of the pioneers of radio broadcasting in the 1930s and 1940s, created one of the country's first successful talk shows, \"America's Town Meeting of the Air.\"
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17631
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George V. Denny Jr. was born in Washington, Beaufort County and attended UNC at Chapel Hill. A member of the the Carolina Playmakers, he tried Broadway, and realized he couldn't make a living for his family acting on Broadway. Denny conceived a unique program in 1935--the NBC Town-Meetings-of-the-air, one of radio's first talk shows. Based on the old town meetings of early America, the program sought to bring to listeners various perspectives on the issues of the day.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 7 Issue 30, Dec 1939, p1, 24, por
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