The site dedicated to
network radio’s greatest program!
Tribute Pages
New for June 2025
Joe Garagiola, Gene Rayburn & Henry Morgan host Monitor ’70
PLUS
Coming later in June:
The annual Monitor Tribune show on the YesterdayUSA streaming radio network on Wednesday, June 11, at 10:30 ET/7:30 PT
AND
Coming in July on this page:
An announcement about the future of this website
Below: Monitor ’64 host (from left) Frank Blair, James Daly, Gene Rayburn, Barry Nelson & David Wayne (courtesy Louis Castaing)
**One more note**
Jodie Peeler — a broadcast historian and great friend of this website — has written “the” definitive biography of Dave Garroway, the first “Today” host and one of the first and greatest “Monitor” hosts. You can find out about it here
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On these pages, you can hear — and read about — NBC Radio’s innovative, and legendary, weekend-long “Monitor” — which aired from 1955 to 1975. It started as a broadcasting experiment — quickly became a smash hit — and wound up becoming an institution. We are proud to present and preserve the “Monitor” story here.
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