Radio: UK
New shows
• Music While You Work (BBC, from 23 June). Lunchtime programme of continuous music broadcast live from workplaces 'somewhere in England'.

Radio: US
New shows
• Abbott and Costello (NBC from 3 July). Comedy, summer replacement for Fred Allen.
• The Adventures of Superman (Mutual Radio network from 12 February). The identity of Bud Collyer, the actor in the title role, is kept secret until 1946.
• The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street (NBC Blue network, from 11 February). Jazz.
• Crime Doctor (CBS from August 4). Detective series.
• Double or Nothing (Mutual Radio network from 29 September). Quiz with a top prize of $80. It runs until 1952.
• Gene Autry's Melody Ranch (CBS from 7 January). Singing cowboy radio show begins a 16-year run. The 'western swing' style of music is now reaching its peak.
• Take It or Leave It (CBS from 21 April). Quiz with prize money rising to $64.

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