{"id":33975,"date":"2018-09-05T07:17:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T11:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=33975"},"modified":"2018-09-05T07:17:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T11:17:02","slug":"jackie-gleason-loved-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/jackie-gleason-loved-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Gleason loved radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33976\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Gleason_meadows_honeymooners_1955.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33976\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33976\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Gleason_meadows_honeymooners_1955.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Gleason_meadows_honeymooners_1955.jpg 434w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Gleason_meadows_honeymooners_1955-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie Gleason with Audrey Meadows (The Honeymooners)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ron, who notes that, &#8220;Jackie Gleason was a radio nut during his last years.&#8221; He shares the following quote from Gleason&#8217;s stepson [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2018\/09\/03\/jackie-gleason-embraced-lasting-success-on-honeymooners-never-regretted-playing-ralph-kramden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe majority of his time at home was spent quietly,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was a prolific reader. Constantly reading. There was a store called Bookland\u2026 Every week or two the owners would come by and drop off a box of books. Jackie just consumed books. He read everything but he was most intrigued with non-fiction. He felt that his life as an actor, as a performer, was all fiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe also listened to the radio. He had a room upstairs that we called the radio room. There were dozens of radios. He listened to airplanes flying over at the airport, long distance radio operators from around the world. He had the passion and curiosity of a child with the experiences of an adult.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for sharing that, Ron! I&#8217;ve always liked Jackie Gleason and especially those episodes of <em>The Honeymooners<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ron, who notes that, &#8220;Jackie Gleason was a radio nut during his last years.&#8221; He shares the following quote from Gleason&#8217;s stepson [source]: \u201cThe majority of his time at home was spent quietly,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was a prolific reader. Constantly reading. There was a store called Bookland\u2026 Every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,43],"tags":[7283,7282,34],"class_list":["post-33975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","tag-famous-listeners","tag-jackie-gleason","tag-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8PZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42558,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/radio-waves-acma-report-maine-stations-close-the-national-emergency-library-and-raf-bombing-disrupted-propaganda\/","url_meta":{"origin":33975,"position":0},"title":"Radio Waves: ACMA Report, Maine Stations Close, The National Emergency Library, and RAF Bombing Disrupted Propaganda","author":"Thomas","date":"March 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Radio Waves:\u00a0 Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Because I keep my ear to the waves, as well as receive many tips from others who do the same, I find myself privy to radio-related stories that might interest\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0readers.\u00a0 To that end:\u00a0Welcome to the\u00a0SWLing Post\u2019sRadio Waves, a collection\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Tecsun-S-2000-Dial-1024x679.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Tecsun-S-2000-Dial-1024x679.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Tecsun-S-2000-Dial-1024x679.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":42016,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/former-kgei-transmitter-building-sports-its-callsign-once-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":33975,"position":1},"title":"Former KGEI transmitter building sports callsign once more","author":"Thomas","date":"February 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Tracy Wood (K7UO), for sharing the following article from The Daily Journal. 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