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Oct 18, 2012, 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by hankster
is that true? I wasn't there, but I thought that there was no announcement of truth or fiction as such. the guy just read the story. people who did assume it was truth went kinda nuts - or maybe they were already there.
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There's an interesting wikipedia article on it. It says this:
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Later studies indicate that many missed the repeated notices about the broadcast being fictional, partly because The Mercury Theatre on the Air, an unsponsored cultural program with a relatively small audience, ran at the same time as the NBC Red Network's popular Chase and Sanborn Hour. About 15 minutes into Chase and Sanborn, the first comic sketch ended and a musical number began, and many listeners began tuning around the dial at that point. According to the American Experience program The Battle Over Citizen Kane, Welles knew the schedule of Chase and Sanborn and scheduled the first report from Grover's Mill at the 12-minute mark to heighten the audience's confusion. As a result, some listeners happened upon the CBS broadcast at the point the Martians emerge from their spacecraft. Because the broadcast was unsponsored, Welles and company could schedule breaks at will rather than structuring them around necessary advertisements. As a result, the only notices that the broadcast was fictional came at the start of the broadcast and about 40 and 55 minutes into it.
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There's more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War...s_(radio_drama)
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