What happens
This is a short morning broadcast from WJSV in Washington, part of the station's Complete Day series, recorded in 1939. The station signs on at six o'clock with the program Sundial, which is a stretch of recorded music. Partway through, the station goes briefly off the air to make technical adjustments, then returns on its assigned frequency of 1,460 kilocycles. The transcript covers only the opening minutes of the program, and it does not name any performers or features.
Washington, D.C., and the WJSV studios in the Earl Building, with transmitting facilities in Alexandria, Virginia; early morning, around 6 a.m.
Listen for: The station's sign-on announcement and the brief technical break, after which the broadcast returns to the air.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.