On November 24th, 1954 Fred Allen was a guest of Tex and Jinx's New York talk show for a discussion about his life and career. It was recorded on a grey, rainy Wednesday before Thanksgiving in Peacock Alley at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York city.
In Fred's first memoir, Treadmill to Oblivion, he explained that giveaway programs played a large part in killing radio. During the course of the interview, he explained how.
Allen shows up in numerous episodes of Breaking Walls, including BW - EP81: The Fred Allen Show—His Life On The Air (1932 - 1956), BW - EP92: Radio And Coney Island (1906 - 1960), and BW - EP111: NBC Answers the CBS Talent Raids (1949)
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