The Jack Benny Celebration

03/04/2023

Hello OTR fans! Just a note to say that tonight's episode of The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company will be paying tribute to character actor and the voice of Mr. Magoo, Jim Backus! The show starts Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 6pm EST and goes to 11pm EST on The Jack Benny Celebration, our 24/7 Jack Benny radio station. Please tune in and drop by our Discord chat room on The Glowing Dial Live server there. Your invite code is: https://discord.gg/RsNJjFUavw .

03/04/2023

Hello OTR fans! Just a note to say that tonight's episode of The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company will be paying tribute to character actress Betty Lou Gerson! The show starts Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 6pm EST and goes to 11pm EST on The Jack Benny Celebration, our 24/7 Jack Benny radio station. Please tune in and drop by our Discord chat room on The Glowing Dial Live server there. Your invite code is: https://discord.gg/RsNJjFUavw .

02/25/2023

Check out the The Glowing Dial LIVE with Big John and Company community on Discord - hang out with 25 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

02/25/2023

Just a reminder folks that The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company will be doing a tribute to the radio series Suspense tonight from 6 to 11pm EST on The Jack Benny Celebration radio station. The station can be heard at https://www.eternallythirtynine.com . We'll be in our Discord chat room on The Glowing Dial Live server, please join us. Your invite code is: https://discord.gg/RsNJjFUavw .

Check out the The Glowing Dial LIVE with Big John and Company community on Discord - hang out with 25 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

02/21/2023

Hello fellow Jack Benny fans! I'd like to announce my radio station The Jack Benny Celebration! We are back on the internet now and are trying to build a new audience of listeners. We also feature The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company every weekend on the station and we want to increase our audience for the show as well. Please feel free to pass this along to any other Jack Benny or just plain OTR groups you know of. It is appreciated. Visit the station website at https://www.eternallythirtynine.com. Listen to the station at that page. Also, please visit The Glowing Dial Page at https://www.glowingdial.online.

Thanks for reading, Big John Matthews
show host and station manager

02/21/2023

COMING TO THE JACK BENNY CELEBRATION .....

The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company! It's a tribute to the long-time character actor Olan Soule! We've got quite a few old time radio shows that feature Olan lined up for you. The show starts at 6pm EST and goes to 11pm EST this Sunday, February 26, 2023. It can be heard exclusively on The Jack Benny Celebration radio station. Listen by using the handy player on our web page, http://www.eternallythirtynine.com. Please feel free to comment here or drop me an e-mail at [email protected]. We will be in our Discord chat room during the show so please join us there. Here is an invite link for Discord, https://discord.gg/RsNJjFUavw . Also e-mail me if you are interested in co-hosting a show with me sometime. Just put "I wanna be a co-host" in the subject line. Thanks for reading and I'll see you on the radio!

Big John Matthews

02/21/2023

COMING TO THE JACK BENNY CELEBRATION .....

The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company! It's a tribute to the long-running radio series, "Suspense"! We've got quite a few of our favorite episodes for your entertainment that, to borrow a line, we hope "will thrill you a little and chill you a little". The show starts at 6pm EST and goes to 11pm EST this Saturday, February 25, 2023. It can be heard exclusively on The Jack Benny Celebration radio station. Listen by using the handy player on our web page, http://www.eternallythirtynine.com. Please feel free to comment here or drop me an e-mail at [email protected]. We will be in our Discord chat room during the show so please join us there. Here is an invite link for Discord, https://discord.gg/RsNJjFUavw . Also e-mail me if you are interested in co-hosting a show with me sometime. Just put "I wanna be a co-host" in the subject line. Thanks for reading and I'll see you on the radio!

Big John Matthews

02/18/2023

Hello OTR fans!

Just a note to say that I will be doing my Sunday Live show exclusively on The Jack Benny Celebration. The station is at https://www.eternallythirtynine.com . The show starts at 6pm EST. Our theme this Sunday will be "The Wrong Side Of The Tracks". Join us in our IRC Chat Room which is on IRCnet and called . Use mIRC or your favorite IRC program. Or you can join us on our Discord server The Glowing Dial Live. Here's an invite code for Discord, https://discord.gg/RsNJjFUavw . Hope to see you there!
Big John Matthews

02/17/2023

Hello folks! Since the show was knocked off the air due to internet problems, I will be repeating our William Conrad Tribute. Show is from 6 to 11pm EST on The Jack Benny Celebration radio station. Please listen in and tell your friends as I am trying to rebuild an audience for the show and for the station. To listen in, go to https://www.eternallythirtynine.com .
Big John Matthews

01/28/2023

Hello fellow Glowing Dial Fans! Just a note and poster to say that I am once again attempting to go live on The Jack Benny Celebration tonight and tomorrow from 6pm to 11pm EST. Please listen in and tell your old time radio friends as I am trying to rebuild an audience here since my hiatus from Yesterday USA still goes on (and not to my choice either).

Listen to The Jack Benny Celebration at https://www.eternallythirtynine.com.

01/14/2023

While I am on my Yesterday USA hiatus, I have decided to do a Live show on my radio station, The Jack Benny Celebration. I will do a show on Saturday and Sunday from 6pm to 11pm EST. I will soon have my phone lines back and will be able to take calls. The show will be mostly as usual, old time radio shows and a little music here and there. Tonight's show is a tribute to William Conrad, radio'a Marshall Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke. Please join us. I also want to invite you to our Discord Chat Room. Your Discord invite code is https://discord.gg/EEtGhrqc . We are in # glowing-dial-live-chat. Joining up with Discord is a bit convoluted but stay with it, we're a fun group and after the show, we go voice chat. Show is Saturday, January 14, 2023 from 6pm tp 11pm EST.

01/04/2023

Hello fellow Benny fans! I just finished submitting The Jack Benny Celebration, back on the air, to several radio station submission lists. Hopefully this will let people know that we're back on the air again. Try Radio Garden, a great site with stations from around the world. We're a little late so good night everyone.

04/10/2022

It's been quite some time since I've gotten a poster up for a new Live show. Tonight we put a stop to that bad trend with this offering. Tonight on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company, we are doing a tribute to Richard Thorne's landmark series, "The Hall Of Fantasy"! We have several of our favorite episodes for you and we hope, yours too. My special guest co-hosts will be my dear friends, Johnny and Helen Holmes of Radio Once More! The whole thing starts at 6pm EST and goes until 10:30pm EST. We can be heard on Yesterday USA Radio at http://yesterdayusa.net and The Jack Benny Celebration Radio at http://www.eternallythirtynine.com.

02/26/2022

Hello listeners to The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company and The Glowing Dial with Big John and Steve. I want to announce our 2 Fundraising events, one going on now and the other in a few weeks.
We are doing these Fundraisers because we desperately need funds for a new computer, audio board, other equipment as well as funds to pay internet each month and other monthly costs we incur here at The Glowing Dial Networks.
The first one is our PayPal Fundraiser and it only has 9 days left! Please donate what you are able to in the remaining 9 days! The address for the PayPal Fundraiser is: https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8H1tpA08Bn .
The second Fundraiser is the big one! It is an 83 hour non-stop Radiothon to raise the much needed funds for The Glowing Dial Live to continue. We have special Live guests lined up like Martin Grams, Bobb Lynes, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Jayne Weiss, Donnie Pitchford, Garry Berman, Nick Parisi, Perry Huntoon, Steve "Archive" Urbaniak, Laura Leibowitz, Zach Eastman and a few more in the works! We'll also have many special items to entice you to donate. We have autographed books, special downloads of special and rare programming from Yesterday USA, chances for you to become a radio star, help for you to start your very own podcast, help making a commercial that will run on our stations and more!
The Marathon starts at 5pm Eastern on Yesterday USA Blue and will be on the Blue the whole time. It will also be on Yesterday USA Red at various times to be listed closer to the Marathon. The various times on the Red are so that we do not interrupt several recorded shows which have regular time slots at those various times.
The website (still under construction) is: https://glowingdial.com/marathon/ .
Yesterday USA Radio can be found at http://yesterdayusa.net .
I will also be relaying the Marathon Live on my radio station The Jack Benny Celebration, http://www.eternallythirtynine.com .
Please visit both Fundraisers and donate what you can. Values are listed for the special items on offer but feel free to donate more than the value, after-all I have to pay postage on all the books!
Thanks in advance and please pass this along to your old time radio friends who may not be on this list.
See you on the radio,
Big John Matthews
The Glowing Dial with Big John and Steve
The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company
The Glowing Dial Networks

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