KSUR picks up drama programming

KSUR-AM (1260), which jumped into drama programming last month after KNX-AM (1070) abandoned the genre in favor of news, is expanding its commitment in a big way.

Beginning Monday, the station will offer three hours a night of radio drama on weeknights, including the package of programs that ran on KNX for 21 years under the banner “The Drama Hour,” and more on the weekend.

The new weeknight lineup will be “When Radio Was” at 8 p.m., in which host Stan Freberg presents and comments on excerpts of everything from “The Lone Ranger” and “The Fred Allen Show” to “Dragnet” and “Screen Directors Playhouse”; “The Drama Hour” at 9 p.m., featuring complete episodes of such classics as “Fibber McGee and Molly,” “Burns and Allen” and “The Jack Benny Program”; and “Imagination Theater” at 10 p.m., mysteries written in recent years but performed in the old-fashioned style.

“The Twilight Zone,” which had been airing weeknights since Nov. 17, will move to Sundays at 8 p.m., followed at 9 by reruns from “The Lux Radio Theatre.”