TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY:

April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959. 

WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm.

 In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and  the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948. 

Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.” 

Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.” 

In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show. 

When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003. 

NOTE::
The scores of TEX AND JINK SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs  were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent  the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world. 

Broadcast from "Peacock Alley at the Waldorf Astoria" from the NBC studios in New York City, The MAN OF THE YEAR show, which originated in 1947 by Time Magazine. 

Highlights: "Man Of The Year" search for 1956, a review of 1956 personalities featuring the voices of Imre Nagy of Hungary, Nikita Khrushchev, General Josip Tito, Gamal Nassar, Ben Gurian, Dag  Hammarskjold, Jawaharlal Nehru, General John Burns (commander of the UN police force in Egypt), Prince Rainier of Monaco, Grace Kelly, Mickey Mantle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Adlai Stevenson, John Foster Dulles, Richard Nixon. Jinx Falkenburg previews color television for 1957 and its future, and Stereophonic Sound. 
Man of the year is President Dwight D. Eisenhower. We hear excerpts from his June 12, 1945 speech in London, 1952 & 1956 acceptance speech at Republican convention, and comments he made related to Anglo-French-Israel invasion.                                                                  

Highlights: the US sends troops to Lebanon to protect its independence to stop indirect outside aggression, attempt to curb Nasser of Egypt, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge at UN talks about Iraqi murders and US commitment, comments from London, Chicago, Jordan, Sergei Sobolev of Russia speaks at UN.                          

Senator John F. Kennedy to meet with  Vice President Richard M.Nixon in a television debate, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan arrives in New York, Khrushchev hopes for a man in orbit, Prime Minister Nehru of India arrives in New York, Egyptian president Nasser visits Castro in Harlem, Khrushchev wants three Russian secretaries in the UN instead of one, Emily Post dies at 86.                                                  

Voices in The Headlines was an American news program broadcast on ABC radio featuring the top news stories of the day. It was hosted by long-time radio and television announcer Fred Foy. 

A review of the week's news: Floods in the Midwest, Cuban matters are discussed by Dean Rusk, 200,000 Cubans fled the island, comment on four US fliers killed in 1961 abortive Cuban invasion, political fever for 1964-George Romney withdraws as a presidential candidate, Nixon derides Kennedy, the Supreme Court rules that RR can impose new work rules to end featherbedding, the New York City Newspaper strike is almost over, Jimmy Hoffa comments on automation, 200,000 miners strike in France, Charles De Gaulle's enemy Georges Bidault exiles himself from France, he appears in Britain says he will overthrow "Fascist" De Gaulle pro-Nasser coup in Syria, Bob Hope comments on fifty-mile hiking craze, Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary, may be released in Hungary. 

Narrator: Fred Foy.   

NOTE: Fred Foy, best known for his voicing the opening of THE LONE RANGER on radio joined the ABC TV announcing staff in New York in 1961. For ABC RADIO he narrated the award winning news documentary, VOICES IN THE HEADLINES a 25 minute weekly wrap up of salient news events of the week with sound bites representing the news as it was recorded.                                                                                                                             

Nasser welcomes conflict, demonstrations in Cairo.
Commentary by Frank Reynolds.            

Nasser holds a news conference, he berates Israel and threatens war, he closes all shipping to Israel in the Gulf of Aqaba, war fever rips Cairo, a report from Tel-Aviv.   

Host: Edward P. Morgan

                        

Egyptian President Gamal Nasser holds a news conference about the Middle East war.         

Nasser and King Hussein of Jordan sign a five-year defense pact against Israel, Whitey Ford retires after a 16-year career with the Yankees, actor Claude Rains has died, commentary by Eric Sevareid on the Vietnam bombing.                                      

Gamal Nasser offers to resign following military defeat in the Middle East, he comments on the war, UN on ceasefire acceptance, Israeli troops in Bethlehem, thirty-three dead aboard US ship "Liberty" after an Israeli attack. Live council meeting at the UN. Richard C. Hottelet reports.                         

Gamal Nasser offers to resign following military defeat in the Middle East, he comments on the war, UN on ceasefire acceptance, Israeli troops in Bethlehem, thirty-three dead aboard US ship "Liberty" after an Israeli attack. Live council meeting at the UN. Richard C. Hottelet reports.   

Duplicate of #15328.                                  

Gamal Nasser offers to resign following military defeat in the Middle East, he comments on the war, UN on ceasefire acceptance, Israeli troops in Bethlehem, thirty-three dead aboard US ship "Liberty" after an Israeli attack. Live council meeting at the UN. Richard C. Hottelet reports.    

Duplicate of #15328.