Talk:List of old-time radio programs

Format table with multiple columns including some extra data

Table should list the following basic information for each radio program if possible

1. Name
2. Years broadcast - (1945-1958 for example)
3. Genre - most shows fit into one genre
4. Country
5. Network (NBC, CBS, etc.), radio station (e.g., BBC2)
6. See also - field to point readers to the show that preceded or followed a given show for cases where a show was on NBC with name and then moved to CBS with a slightly different name (e.g., a mythical example of Bob Hope Show (NBC, 1940-1942) which moves to CBS as the Bob Hope Comedy Show (CBS, 1943-1950))

This would help greatly in finding shows by genre and shows with the same host (Bob Hope, Jack Benny).

This lends itself to easily breaking down the shows into subcategories (detective, comedy, etc.) instead of the partial application of Wiki categories that have been applied to existing show articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.197.216.121 (talk) 04:57, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia advanced formatting

20-Jan-2008: Many Wikipedia articles have long Table-of-Contents (TOC) boxes that scroll down the page; some articles use various templates for compact-TOC boxes, depending on exactly matching a particular list of compact subheaders. This article has been reformatted, using Wikipedia advanced formatting, to float the TOC box, alongside the text, by using a wikitable, as follows:

{| align=right <!--float TOC to right-side of page. -->
|__TOC__<!--show Table-of-Contents alongside text -->
|}

Although a right-side TOC is not "standard", there really is not a set Wikipedia standard for TOC placement, after the various compact-TOC templates have already set precedents for a wide variety of TOC-box placement. As of January 2008, it was not possible to have a TOC default as "hidden" when an article is first displayed. -Wikid77 (talk) 14:34, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Exclusive to North America

If this article is about North American radio, then the title should say so.
If it is a general article, then we should be adding an international content.
Which? Dbfirs 18:30, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Reverted "The Green Door"

I have reverted the addition of The Green Door; the article is about a popular song -- not a radio program. Eddie Blick (talk) 00:38, 24 April 2018 (UTC)