April I Chuck plays an “April Fool” joke on TWTD listeners by “closing the program” at I p.m.
April 29 TWTD Nineteenth Anniversary broadcast features program contributors and Nostalgia Digest writers Bob Kolososki. Karl Pearson and Dan McGuire.
April 30 May 7 Chuck Schaden appears in a pair of “Seminars on Sunday” at the Museum of Broadcast Communications at River City as he celebrates 19 years of Those Were The Days. He gives two special “lectures” about Old Time Radio, recorded before live audiences in the Kraft Theatre at the MBC and later released by AudioFile.
May 31 Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Feder writes:
What began as a fascination with the old-time radio shows of his youth has become a thriving business for Chuck Schaden — and a genuine treasure for his loyal listeners. Schaden, 55, just began his 20th year as host of Those Were the Days on WNIB. Since 1985, he also has hosted Radio Classics, which airs …on WBBM. “I can’t believe it myself,” Schaden said of his longevity on the air. “I’ve always had a fatalistic approach to what I do. I figured it would last as long as stations, sponsors and listeners wanted it to. But now I can’t ever see myself retiring from it.”
Among Schaden’s fans are three generations of families — grandparents who grew up listening to the original radio broadcasts of the 1930s, parents who remember a time before television crowded out radio drama, and children who enjoy hearing classic episodes of The Lone Ranger or The Shadow for the first time. Schaden has donated his full collection of 48,000 radio programs to Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications, from which he broadcasts Those Were the Days every Saturday afternoon.
June 17 As part of the regular program, TWTD carries the complete Memorial Service for actress Fran Allison from the Kraft Theatre in the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
Chuck with Pat Cheffer on “”Lifestyle” cable TV show
July 12 TV appearance: Lifestyle Continental Cablevision. Host Pat Cheffer interviews guest Chuck Schaden who tells how he got started collecting old time radio shows. Includes video clips of Chuck working at WBBM Chicago; the Museum of Broadcast Communications; Amos ‘n’ Andy TV show; and calls from viewers.
August 28-29 Chuck interviews Harriet Nelson in Laguna Beach, California, and David Nelson in Hollywood, California.
October 28 First of TWTD’s “creative” Halloween “specials” with segments scripted and performed by Ken Alexander.
December 1 Nostalgia Digest observes 15th Anniversary with a special issue that includes a reprint of the complete first issue of the Nostalgia Newsletter and Radio Guide, plus reprints of several previous articles that originally ran in the Newsletter and the Nostalgia Digest during the past decade-and-a-half.
December 12 Museum of Broadcast Communications Board of Directors elects Chuck Schaden Vice President and member of the Executive Committee.
