The annual Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention has been meeting for 36 years. But when it signed off this past Saturday night, it was for the last time. Musician Jay Hickerson told the Associated Press it was closing down to the lack of guests, calling it "the march of time." For one day every year the event was held with the legends of radio at a hotel near Newark Airport.
The convention, which used to boast of big old-time radio stars, was down to featuring former child stars who were in their 80s and 90s. In addition to time moving on, radio's classic programs can now be researched and listened to, nearly instantly on the Internet.
NPR did a story on the conventions final days which you can listen to HERE
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