Duffy's Tavern is an American radio situation comedy that ran for a decade on several networks, concluding with the December 28, 1951, broadcast.
Sam Berman's caricature of Ed Gardner as the bartender Archie on Duffy's Tavern was published in NBC's 1947 book promoting the network's top stars.
Poster for the Duffy's Tavern movie
The Blue Network was the on-air name of a now defunct American radio network, which broadcast from 1927 through 1945.
NBC networks, 1933
Advertisement placed by the Enna Jettick Shoe Company promoting the appearance of Sir Harry Lauder on its NBC Blue program, December 1, 1929. Note that the text implies that the NBC Blue, NBC Orange (West Coast) and NBC Red networks were all participating in the broadcast.
Advertisement advertising the debut of the Lux Radio Theatre, which had a brief run on NBC Blue in 1934–35 before moving for a long run on CBS.
This 1944 advertisement for KATE in Albert Lea, Minnesota, while it dates from after the sale by NBC of the Blue Network, shows how the Blue Network continued to have access to NBC facilities; in this case, the famed radio studios at Rockefeller Center in New York City.