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| Snippet of a newspaper photo promoting multiple Christmas broadcast. Image of Madge Tucker at the top with an illustration depicting her as "The Lady Next Door". From Advertiser Journal, December 18, 1930. From Newspapers.com |
The Lady Next Door's Christmas Morning Special
December 25, 1930, 9:00am EST, NBC. Rebroadcast Annually for an unknown number of years.
The Hook: An early annual Christmas special from one of radio pioneering story ladies.
Margaret Berniece "Madge" Tucker (1897-1996) was the earliest known director of children's programming for the NBC radio network, and the beloved "Lady Next Door" of many children's hours in the Golden Age of Radio.
Beginning in the late 1920s, Tucker began hosting an annual Christmas morning program from New York Station WEAF. This article details her Christmas Day 1930 party.
All that is known are brief details from snippets in the Advertiser Journal which describes it as a Christmas morning party to be broadcast at 9:00am. Perhaps there were stories, songs and stories to accommodate small children after they would have opened their gifts and before a warm Christmas morning breakfast.
The Christmas morning broadcasts were promoted for a few years into the mid 1930s.
