what happend to radio shows? not liek talk shows but the ones that were radio plays?

SO to clairfy. im asking what happend to the radio shows that were essentially plays on the radio. War of the worlds was orginally a radio show. I like that sort of thing cuase it stimulates my imagination to think about what everything looks like. plus i can enjoy it more cuase even though its fleshed out written. i can see what i want to see. :)

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Mysti · 51-55, F Best Comment

TV happened to them

SailorMoon · 36-40, F

@Mysti dang it tv why u gotta ruin something so good

Sidewinder · 36-40, M

@Mysti technically, yes.

Television did in fact happen to them, but, in the early days of television, (circa late 1940's/early 1950's) more people still had radios, than they did, television sets, and many of the radio shows of the 1930's and 1940's, did carry over into the early-to-mid 1950's, and then as the years went on, television was more mainstream and radio shows, gradually became obsolete.

CinnamonWorlds

I really like radio plays too! CBC Radio here in Canada used to have them, including a really moving series, "Afghanada", a fictionalized story of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. But a year or two ago that kind of programming was eliminated in budget cuts :(
There is a nostalgia radio station here that plays old radio dramas, like detective stories, late in the evening. And I imagine you can find them on line, maybe YouTube?

SailorMoon · 36-40, F

@CinnamonWorlds ive always liked them but then i was playing fallout 4 and they had one staion in fallout 4 that did something like that and i enjoyed listening to it while playing the game. so i wish someone would put an xm channel up that was radio plays xD

CinnamonWorlds

@SailorMoon have a look at this
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/saltzman/2016/03/25/webs-best-kept-secret-thousands-free-classic-radio-dramas/82204502/

FurryFace · 61-69, M

you need CJAD 800 AM with George Nori Coast to Coast , talks about everything and has call in lines , witches , shadow people , men in black , Aliens , hauntings you name it , best time is between 1 and 5 AM

Sidewinder · 36-40, M

Nowadays, you can find them on YouTube.

Some of the ones I've listened to, are The Shadow, The Green Hornet, and Sherlock Holmes, to name a few...

There was also a 1938 radio drama of A Christmas Carol, presented by Orson Welles, and starring Lionel Barrymore.

I happen to have a copy of it on cassette, which I listen to, every December.

I also have a 3 cassette set of the BBC radio drama presentation of the Hobbit.