The information is inaccurate not because I want it to be, nor because of sloppy scholarship, but because the information is still coming in, and some of it is going to be wrong. How do you determine when a network program started or stopped? You can check the newspapers and Radio Guide-type publications as a start. How do you handle that information when you find an original recording of a program clearly labeled as being broadcast a year after the show supposedly went off the air? What do you do when the program was heard locally in New York or Cleveland before it became a network show heard all over the country? What's the date of the show's last broadcast if it went off the network, ran just in Chicago for two years and then went into syndication around the country and was offered for sale to other radio stations for the next ten years (and then perhaps revived and resold a decade after that)? How do you determine the day of the week a show was on if it was heard on different days in different parts of the country! How can you tell its time of broadcast with four time zones, plus the delayed and repeat broadcasts? Who is the sponsor of the show if the product being advertised was different in varying parts of the country or changed from week to week! How do you spell the name of a performer whose name is mentioned on a program's closing credits, but who wasn't important enough to be mentioned in print anywhere? Is his name spelled Steven? Stephen? Stefan? Alan or Allen or Allan? William or Bill? Robert or Bob? Richard or Dick? What should Ira Grossel's listing be since he was called Jeff Chandler for most of his career, except that one western series when he was billed as "Tex" Chandler? How do you handle Myron Wallace when he starts calling himself Mike Wallace, or when Connee Boswell becomes Connie Boswell? Is an actress' name spelled Ann or Anne, is Gil Stratton the same actor as Gil Stratton, Jr.? And was Michael Ann Barrett a man or a woman?

It's easy to ask the above questions; it's a lot harder to answer them. Obviously, I've made decisions and compromises. Much time consuming research was necessary, some of it is bound to be wrong. That's why this work contains inaccuracies. One final question: how do you spell a name or describe a program when two trusted sources disagree?

I encourage readers to help me correct the many errors to be found in this book, both with "program" information and with "people" spelling. Please have some form of documentation beyond "I've always spelled it that way," or "the show is dated differently in the XYZ catalogue." My fellow collectors may be as perplexed, stubborn and wrong as I am. I would be most appreciative of those with definite information.

Please note that "The Radiogoldindex" descriptions are copyrighted by J. David Goldin and are now under the management of the Marr Library at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.