Over the course of 20 years on the air (1955-75), NBC Radio's Monitor was an eclectic mix of news, sports, interviews, and music. In just its 2nd weekend on the air, Monitor ran for an amazing 40 hours. This format was later discontinued due to affiliates not interested in a network program taking up all that time.
Hosts & announcers were billed as communicators, and they were just as eclectic as the show's format. A who's who of "communicators" included the likes of Jim Backus, singer and later NY radio personality Jim Lowe, Dave Garroway, Hugh Downs, and game show icons Art Fleming, Monty Hall, and, in this excerpt from 1970, Gene Rayburn, in between Match Game runs (in fact, this was Rayburn's last gig for NBC, as he'd leave for CBS 2 years later), who interviews Jimmy Stewart. A Stewart photo montage is the video.
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