Kraft Music Hall
NBC
NBC · 1933–1949
Broadcasts
200
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1933
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1933–1949
- Surviving broadcasts
- 200
- Genre
- variety
Kraft Music Hall began on NBC in 1933 and became one of radio's defining variety programmes, hosted in turn by Paul Whiteman, Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's orchestra, and later Al Jolson. Guests ranged across Hollywood, Broadway and the concert stage. These recordings stream from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
47 dated broadcasts across 94 years on the air, with 89 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2024, in original transmission order.
- 1. Night Broadcast · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. The Case of the Missing Hour · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. Sign Off · 3 Dec 2024
- 01
The Case of the Missing Hour
4 Aug 2026 · 42 min
- 02
Night Broadcast
28 Jul 2026 · 57 min
- 03
The Last Train Out
21 Jul 2026 · 20 min
- 04
Signal at Midnight
14 Jul 2026 · 35 min
- 05
A Room Above the Street
7 Jul 2026 · 50 min
- 06
The Long Silence
30 Jun 2026 · 1h 5m
- 07
Dead Air
23 Jun 2026 · 28 min
- 08
Sign Off
16 Jun 2026 · 43 min
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NBC in 1933–1949
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