...The very first radio plays to be discontinued after Germany surrendered, were those encouraging women to take jobs to help the war effort.

...A fictional protagonist, "Chaplain Jim," was so popular that each week listeners sent  him cash  donations to help him carry on his work.

...On hearing the agonized scream of an actor in a government-sponsored show who was playing the role of an American soldier who was shot, one listener  wrote in a letter of complaint "I'd like to shake [the producer's] teeth out."

...The FBI first started its file on Orson Welles because he produced a radio play advocating freedom of assembly. One strike against him that was noted was his association with the Foster Parents Plan for War Children, "an allegedly communist organization."

...According to one story, producer Frank Hummert once fired a man for talking to him in the washroom.

...When Hummert's wife and co-producer once told a writer "I want you to put God in to every plot" and the writer replied "And who is going to play his role?" the writer too was fired.

...In 1951 A CBS vice-president explained that the network fired director Bill Robson not for being a communist, but for being accused of being a Communist.

...In the early 1940s, in the name of "freedom of speech," the networks permitted a number of attacks on organized labor. But they denied labor a chance to respond.

..."Who the hell is John Milton Kennedy?" film producer and Lux Radio Theatre host Cecil B. DeMille once screamed, unaware that Kennedy was the show's announcer. DeMille thus revealed his ignorance of essential facts about the show for which he was falsely advertised as its producer.

...Actor Ward Bond who took an active role in helping to blacklist his colleagues on the political left once told a radio director, "We  know Norman Corwin was not a communist, never was a communist. But he'll do until one comes along."