Welcome to The Glowing Dial Archives Blog! This blog is for notification of updates and the announcement of the posting of episodes of The Glowing Dial with Big John and Steve. The show has been back on the air since April 6, 2014!. A new episode is posted every 3 weeks. All our old "archived" episodes continue to be available.
Friday, October 29, 2021
Tonight is a BIG night on The Glowing Dial with Big John and Company - It's our War Of The Worlds Evening - starts at 3pm Eastern!
Tonight is a BIG night on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company! It's our expanded War Of The Worlds Evening! We've got interviews, remembrances, documentaries and a replay of our 2020 War Of The Worlds Special! All the fun starts at Noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern on Yesterday USA Radio, http://yesterdayusa.net. Please note that from 3pm Eastern to 5pm Eastern, we will ONLY be on YUSA Blue! From 5pm Eastern to 10:30pm Eastern, we will be on YUSA RED and BLUE. Make note of this when tuning in! We'll have War Of The Worlds material not featured in the 2020 Special from 3pm to 6pm Eastern, then at 6pm Eastern, we will begin the replay of the 2020 Special which will include The Mercury Theatre original broadcast (hitting a scant few minutes before 8pm, its 83rd Anniversary! That will be followed by the WKBW, Buffalo, NY version from 1968! Plus other neato features! Aside from being on Yesterday USA, we will also be in our Discord Glowing Dial Live server at the address at the bottom of the flyer that is attached here. And if that weren't enough, we have just signed up for Twitch and will be broadcasting there as well with a webcam and some nice visuals. Please join up at Twitch and follow us there! http://www.twitch.tv/glowingdial62. See you on the radio, literally! Big John.
Join me for a special Twitch only show tonight at 6pm EST!
Hello all, at the suggestion of a friend, I have signed up with Twitch! Now I am not a gamer by any means. Rather I am an old time radio show host and there look to be a few there. I did a test broadcast today and found out, to my great disappointment, that Twitch censors and blacks out portions of my broadcast due to supposed copyright infringement by a third party. Sheesh, you can't get away from that anywhere! I believe they silenced out some or all of my "Big John's Old Time Jukebox" segment. I guess I'll have that problem with the Thursday shows. I still am not sure if they silence it out "as I am casting" or do they just silence out the subsequent recording? If it's only the subsequent recording then that will work out ok as I always run a recording of my shows as an archive copy with Adobe Audition. Still it perturbs me greatly! I am not out to rip anyone off here, I just like presenting a variety of nostalgic songs to my listeners. I winder if they will silence out any old time radio shows? Anyways, my regular YUSA show times are on the schedule there at Twitch now and I added one for tonight at 6pm EST. This show will only be on Twitch tonight and I'm doing it as a run through to see if Twitch will work for me and my show. We know it has issues with the Jukebox 🙁
Go to: http://www.twitch.com/glowingdial62. Please follow me there if you would 🙂
Big John
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
It's time for another installment of Big John's Old Time Jukebox on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company tonight at 5pm Eastern!
It's time once again for Jukebox Thursdays on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company! Join Big John for another installment of Big John's Old Time Jukebox! We'll also have another episode of the blockbuster NBC series, The Big Show. Then we'll probably play some requests if we have any. The phone lines will be open at 248-565-8284. We'll be in the Yesterday USA Chat Room so please join us there at http://yesterdayusa.net. Just enter your desired username and NO password and you're in! We're trying to breathe some life back into our chat room there so please be there! We're also going to be in our Discord.com Glowing Dial Live server chat room. The invite link for Discord is: https://discord.gg/yTzVXTZP. We'll see you on the radio!
Don't forget about our big Halloween weekend expanded shows! Saturday and Sunday, October 30 and 31 we come on at Noon Pacific/3pm Eastern and go for 7-1/2 hours each day! Lots of good stuff planned so be there please!
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
It's once again time for Fibber McGee Tuesdays on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company today at 5pm Eastern!
It's once again time for Fibber McGee Tuesdays on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company! Today's show begins at 2pm Pacific, 5pm Eastern on http://yesterdayusa.net. We'll be in that chat room there as well as in our Discord Chat Room. The invite code to Discord is: https://discord.gg/yTzVXTZP. See you on the radio!
Sunday, October 24, 2021
Tonight on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company, we yell "Somebody Call A Doctor"! Show starts at 6pm EST!
Another last minute post of tonight's Show poster, sorry for the lateness. Tonight on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company, we yell, "Somebody Call A Doctor"! We have several shows about old time radio Doctors. We're in the Yesterday USA Chat Room too, usually all alone :-( Visit us there at http://yesterdayusa.net. Click on Chat Room, select your desired username and NO password and you're in! We're also in our Discord Glowing Dial Live server and chat! Invite code is: https://discord.gg/yTzVXTZP. Also visit us at our home page http://www.glowingdial.com. Become a Glowing Dial Live Patron, link is on the main page and Live Show page at glowingdial.com. See you on the radio! Big John
Saturday, October 23, 2021
Tonight on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company, there's "Something In The Night"! Start time is 3pm PST/6pm EST on Yesterday USA Radio!
Tonight on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company, there's "Something In The Night"! Yes, all our shows tonight have the word "Night" in their show or episode title! We'll be in the Yesterday USA Chat Room so please join us there during the show! Go to http://yesterdayusa.net and click on Chat Room, enter your desired username and NO password and you'll be in! We're also usually in our Glowing Dial Live Discord server's chat room. You can join us at Discord by using the following invite code: https://discord.gg/yTzVXTZP. Listen to the show at YUSA's RED or BLUE Networks. Our phone lines will be open at 248-565-8284! If you want to say hi or make a request for an old time radio show. Requests are usually played on Thursdays after Big John's Old Time Jukebox. The show tonight starts at 3pm PST/6pm EST. That's it for tonight! See you on the radio! Big John Matthews.
Thursday, October 21, 2021
It's Jukebox Thursday on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company - Tonight at 5pm Eastern!
Tonight on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company, it's Jukebox Thursday! Roughly the first hour of the show, I'll be playing a variety of tunes for your enjoyment, then we have some great old time radio shows! We'll be in the Yesterday USA Chat Room at http://yesterdayusa.net. Just click on Chat Room, enter your desired username and NO password and you're in! Listen in also as YUSA. Phone lines will be open at 248-565-8284!
See you on the radio!
Big John Matthews
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Tonight on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company it's Fibber McGee Tuesdays! Show starts at 2pm Pacific, 5pm Eastern
Tonight on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company we present Fibber McGee Tuesdays # 9! We're playing every episode of Fibber McGee and Molly we have in original broadcast order! Join us in the Yesterday USA Chat Room. Go to http://yesterdayusa.net and click on Chat Room, enter your desired username and NO password and you're in! We're also usually in our Discord server chat room. The invite code there is: https://discord.gg/DMSbKgyj. Please call in to the show to say hi or request an old time radio show for Thursday. Our number is 248-565-8284. Listen to the show at Yesterday USA's RED or BLUE Networks. Go to YUSA's site and click on Listen and then choose your desired listening method. We'll see you on the radio at 2pm Pacific, 5pm Eastern! All the best, Big John Matthews.
Sunday, October 17, 2021
Tonight on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company, our theme is Husband and Wife Acting Teams. 6pm Eastern on Yesterday USA!
Today on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company, our theme is Husband and Wife Acting Teams! We'll have several old time radio shows that all feature, you guessed it, a famous Husband and Wife team of actors. We'll open the phone lines too at 248-565-8284 if you want to call to say hi or maybe even request some old time radio shows. We will be in the Yesterday USA Chat Room so please join us there. Just go to http://yesterdayusa.net and click on Chat Room, enter your desired username and NO password is needed. We are also going to be in The Glowing Dial Live server on Discord. The invite link to our Discord server is: https://discord.gg/DMSbKgyj. Listen in there in our Voice Channel or via Yesterday USA Radio RED or BLUE Networks. At YUSA, click on Listen and select your listening method. We'll see you on the radio! Big John.
Saturday, October 16, 2021
Tonight on The Glowing Dial Live, it's a tribute to writer and actress Elspeth Eric! We start 1 hour earlier at 2pm Pacific, 5pm Eastern
Tonight on The Glowing Dial LIVE with Big John and Company, we have a tribute to writer and actress, Elspeth Eric. We are coming on an hour earlier tonight thanks to our bossman at YUSA, Walden Hughes. Thanks Walden! Phone lines will be open at 248-565-8284! We'll be in the Yesterday USA Chat Room (usually all alone but let's change that). Just go to http://yesterdayusa.net and click on Chat Room, enter your desired username and NO password is needed. Listen in at http://yesterdayusa.net. Just click on Listen and choose either the Red or Blue Network. We should be on both,
See you on the radio ... an hour early at 2pm Pacific, 5pm Eastern! Big John.
Thursday, October 14, 2021
It's Jukebox Thursday tonight on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company!
Tonight on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company, it's time once again for Jukebox Thursdays! We'll start out with our usual 1 hour or so segment of Big John's Old Time Jukebox, then we'll have an episode of The Big Show. After that, well, we'll figure something out ;-) Listen in at http://yesterdayuysa.net. We'll also be in the YUSA chat room! Just click on Chat Room and select your desired username and no password, and you're in. Our Glowing Dial Live phone number is 248-565-8284. Call Big John and make an old time radio instant request and you might even hear it tonight! Show starts at 2pm Pacific/5pm Eastern!
See you on the radio!
Big John Matthews.
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
It's the return of Fibber McGee Tuesdays tonight on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company!
Sorry I forgot to post the poster for this past Sunday's show, Listening In Colors. Hope you heard it though as in addition to the theme, we did a brief interview with our good friend, author Nick Parisi who wrote the book "Rod Serling: His Life, His Work and His Imagination". Nick promoted Serlingfest which will be free this year. He also promoted his new Kickstartewr campaign to get a full size statue of Rod Serling commisioned and placed in Binghampton Park in New York, Rod Serling's Home town. Best of luck Nick.
Tonight on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company, it's the return of Fibber McGee Tuesdays! This is our 8th time around and we are endeavoring to play just about every episode of Fibber McGee and Molly in broadcast order. We get 8 episodes in each week. Our Tuesday and Thursday shows have increased by 1 hour and now go from 2pm to 7:30pm Pacific, 5pm to 10:30pm Eastern! Tune in at http://yesterdayusa.net. We should be on both the Red and Blue Networks there as well as in the YUSA Chatroom!
See you on the radio!
Big John Matthews
Saturday, October 9, 2021
The Glowing Dial Live presents a tribute to character actor Barney Phillips tonight!
Tonight on The Glowing Dial Live, we present a tribute to versatile character actor Barney Phillips! We'll have examples of several radio shows he did over the years. We'll also have the phone lines open at 248-565-8284! Listen in at http://yesterdayusa.net. We should be on both the Red and Blue Networks there. We'll also be in the Yesterday USA Chat Room which is open to everyone! Just click on Chatroom at the YUSA site and enter your desired username and no password and you're in! Please join me there as I want to breathe life back into that chatroom that was so active in Bill Bragg's day. Our website is http://www.glowingdial.com. When you're there, please consider a donation or become one of our Patrons by clicking the link that is right by tonight's show poster! Thank you in advance :-) See you on the radio! Big John.
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