Mutual Broadcasting System

The Mutual Broadcasting System was an American radio network. It broadcast radio shows from 1934 to 1999. It was also called Mutual Broadcasting Company; Mutual; or the Mutual Broadcasting System, Inc.

Mutual Broadcasting System
Mutual Broadcasting Company

Type	Cooperative radio network (1934–52); corporate-controlled radio network (1952–99)
Country	United States (and Windsor Ontario, Canada)
Founded	September 29, 1934 (organized); October 29, 1934 (incorporated)
Dissolved	April 17, 1999
Former names	Quality Network
Affiliates	4 founders (1934); 104 (1938); 384 (1945); 543 (1950); 443 (1960); 950 (1979); 810 (1985)

Mutual broadcast radio shows, such as The Lone Ranger, The Adventures of Superman, and The Shadow. It broadcast baseball games, including the All-Star Game and World Series, and football games for the University of Notre Dame. From 1978 to 1994, it broadcast the Larry King Show.

Mutual Broadcasting System Media

• Mutual featured a variety of political voices, but none for so long as that of conservative commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. Many later pundits "copied his style—mocking, ridiculing, full of denials, full of sweeping generalizations, and full of inside-dopesterism." WKIC was Mutual's affiliate in Hazard, Kentucky.

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  President Franklin D. Roosevelt at his home in Hyde Park, New York, December 24, 1943, delivering one of his nationwide radio 'Fireside chats' on the Tehran Conference and Cairo Conference

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  On the radio in the morning, on TV in the afternoon—audiences couldn't get enough of Queen for a Day. At the end of each episode, host Jack Bailey would proclaim, "We wish we could make every lady in America a queen for every single day!"

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  Hal Roach Jr. at a Hollywood event circa 1950.

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  Advertisement for the Mutual Black Network, featuring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and poet Nikki Giovanni

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  Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld answers a question from CNN's Larry King during a videotaping of his Larry King Live program at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va.