Bill Stern's Sports Newsreel was heard on NBC from October 1937 through September 1953. It moved to ABC where it continued until June of 1956. Colgate was his longest sponsor, from October 1939 through June 1951, during which the show was known as the Colgate Sports Newsreel. The last few years of its broadcast life on ABC featured Budweiser, All-State Insurance and some other sponsors.

The show started out on Sundays, moving around the week until dropping into it's Friday night time slot in 1943 and stayed put for the next 8 years. After moving to ABC, the show became a feature every weeknight until the show's finish.

Not only great sports comentator, Stern's gift for storytelling made the Newsreel the hit it was. During the 15 minutes of each show, he offered extremely colorful (and many fanciful) stories dealing with sports and sportspeople. Never allowing the facts get in the way of a good story, he told not only of sports figures, but of presidents, actors, actresses, band leaders, and others not normally associated with sports. His hyperbolic vocal delivery was quite unique, and contributed greatly to the success of the series. One can still hear his style in some of the more colorful news commentators of today.

Every week he would have a famous guest appear for a short segment to either corroborate a story about themselves, tell a story of their own, or sit in while Stern was on vacation and tell stories from Stern's latest book of yarns. During the football season, he would broadcast from the city hosting the game of the week. Many times he'd have the home coach or a famous player from the home team's past as the guest.

Volume 1 Episode List

42-09-12 Guest Harry James 42-10-24 Guest Bill Welshel 43-04-17 Guest Madeline Carroll 44-03-17 Guest Constance Bennett 44-09-01 Guest Ellery Queen 44-09-22 Guest Dunninger 45-01-24 Guest Rudy Vallee 45-03-09 Sports Newsreel Lawrence Tibbett 45-04-06 Guest Lena Horne 45-04-20 Guest Larry Mcphail 45-04-27 Guest Henny Youngman 45-06-15 Guest Kathleen Windsor 45-06-22 Guest Alan Jones 45-07-06 H. V. Kaltenborne Subs 45-07-13 H. V. Kaltenborne Subs 45-07-27 Guest Byron Nelson 45-08-03 Guest Joan Edwards 45-08-17 Guest Eddie Rickenbacker 45-08-31 Guest Charlie Spivak 45-09-06 Guest Danny Kaye 45-09-14 Guest Brace Beemer 45-10-05 Guest Pat O'brien 45-11-09 Guest Tommy Dorsey 45-11-23 Guest Frank Sinatra 45-12-07 Guest Joe Louis 45-12-14 Guest Elsa Maxwell 45-12-21 Guest Ezra Stone 45-12-28 Guest Jack Benny 46-01-04 Guest Abbott And Costello 46-02-01 Guest Kay Kyser 46-03-01 Guest Linda Darnell 46-03-08 Guest Jack Carson 46-03-15 Episode 332 46-03-22 Guest Babe Ruth 46-03-29 Guest Bonita Grandville 46-04-12 Guest Xavier Cugat 46-05-10 Guest Sammy Baugh 46-05-17 Guest Guy Lombardo 46-05-24 Guest Lucille Ball 46-06-07 Guest Eddie Anderson 46-06-14 Guest Dave Elman 46-06-21 Guest Robert Ripley 46-06-28 Guest Orson Welles 46-08-02 Guest Joan Edwards 46-08-09 Guest Dinah Shore 46-08-16 Guest Vivian Blaine 46-08-23 Guest Cab Calloway 46-08-30 Guest Mischa Auer 46-09-06 Guest Sammy Kaye 46-10-04 Guest Connie Mack 46-10-11 Guest Lizabeth Scott 46-10-18 Guest Roddy McDowell 46-10-25 Guest Gene Autry 46-11-01 Guest Lou Little 46-11-22 Guest Mickey Rooney 46-12-13 Sports Newsreel Guy Lombardo 46-12-27 Guest Eddie Cantor 47-01-24 Guest Rudy Vallee 47-01-31 Guest Bucky Harris 47-02-07 Guest Spike Jones 47-02-14 Guest Frantie Frisch 47-03-01 Sports Newsreel Bucky Harris 47-03-28 Guest Dizzy Dean 47-04-11 Sports Newsreel Dizzy Dean 47-05-02 Guest Eddie Arcaro 47-05-16 Sports Newsreel Eddie Arcaro 47-06-13 Guest Roy Rogers 47-06-20 Guest Perry Como 47-07-04 Guest George Jessel 47-07-11 Guest Bob Feller 47-07-25 Eddie Cantor Subs 47-08-01 Guest Frank Sinatra 47-08-08 John Garfield Subs 47-08-22 Guest Paul Whitman 47-09-19 Guest Babe Dedrikson 47-10-10 Guest Gene Autry 47-10-17 Guest Hildegarde 47-10-31 Guest Frank Leahy 47-12-28 Sports Newsreel Jack Benny 48-01-02 Guest Ronald Reagan 48-01-09 Guest Eddie Cantor 48-03-19 William Powell Is Guest Host 48-04-02 Guest Jack Dempsey 48-04-16 Guest Canada Lee 48-04-23 Guest Maxie Rosenblum 48-04-30 Guest Tony Martin 48-05-07 Guest Jane Froman 48-05-14 Guest Fred Waring 48-06-04 Guest Jim Thorpe 48-07-23 Jimmy Steward Subs 48-08-27 Guest Dick Powell 48-09-01 Guest Lou Ness 48-10-15 Guest Rex Harrison 48-11-26 Guest Frankie Carle 48-12-17 Guest Marie 'The Body' McDonald 48-12-31 Guest George Raft 49-01-21 Guest Horace Heidt 49-01-28 Guest Jerry Colonna 49-02-04 Guest Hoagy Carmichael 49-02-11 Guest Zachary Scott 49-02-18 Guest Casey Stengel 49-03-18 Guest Susan Hayward 49-04-08 Guest Jesse Owens 49-05-20 Sports Newsreel Ida Lupino 49-05-25 Sports Newsreel Four Horsemen 49-06-03 Guest Mrs Lou Gehrig 49-06-17 Guest Connie Mack 49-07-15 Frank Sinatra Subs 49-07-22 Host-Pat O'brien 49-07-29 Ronald Reagan Subs 49-08-19 Guest Dizzy Dean 49-09-02 Guest Herbert Hoover 49-09-23 Guest Pancho Gonzales 49-10-28 Sports Newsreel Red Grange 49-11-04 Guest Peter Lawford 49-11-25 Guest The Four Horsemen 49-12-02 Guest Grantland Rice 49-12-30 Guest Morton Downey 50-01-11 Guest Boris Karloff 50-01-20 Guest Sammy Kaye 50-02-03 Guest Tommy Henrich 50-02-10 Guest Bob Feller 50-03-10 Guest Kirk Douglas 50-04-07 Sports Newsreel Jack Carson 50-05-12 Guest Jack Carson 50-05-12 Guest Laraine Day 50-10-13 Guest Ann Sheridan 50-10-20 12th Anniversary Show 53-01-29 Sports Newsreel Jerry Colonna