The NBC Monitor Tribute Pages

The site dedicated to
network radio’s greatest program!

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Tribute Pages

**New for March 2024 **

Joe Garagiola, Henry Morgan, Ted Steele, Brad Crandall & Durward Kirby host Monitor ’69  

on the

 Sounds of Monitor 1969 page

Below:  Monitor ’64 hosts (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 just 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. 

 This is an educational, non-profit site