Brad Cresswell is an American radio broadcaster and former opera singer who is currently based at WGTE-FM in Toledo, Ohio.
 He is also the creator and host of "Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green", a radio series sponsored by Bowling Green State University and syndicated internationally by The WFMT Radio Network.
 Since 2012 he has hosted the popular Opera Quiz intermission feature heard during the international Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts.
The Orson Welles Almanac (also known as Radio Almanac and The Orson Welles Comedy Show) is a 1944 CBS Radio series directed and hosted by Orson Welles.
 Broadcast live on the Columbia Pacific Network, the 30-minute variety program was heard Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET January 26 – July 19, 1944.
 The series was sponsored by Mobilgas and Mobiloil.
 Many of the shows originated from U.S. military camps, where Welles and his repertory company and guests entertained the troops with a reduced version of "The Mercury Wonder Show".
 The performances of the all-star jazz band that Welles brought together for the show were an important force in the revival of traditional New Orleans jazz in the 1940s.
Orson Welles Commentaries (1945–46) is an ABC radio series produced and directed by Orson Welles.
 Featuring commentary by Welles, with reminiscences and readings from literature, the 15-minute weekly program aired Sunday afternoons at 1:15 p.m. ET beginning September 16, 1945.
 Lear Radio sponsored the program through the end of June 1946 when it failed to find a larger audience.
 The series was continued by ABC as a sustaining show through October 6, 1946.
 "Orson Welles Commentaries" was the last of Welles's own radio shows.
The Mercury Summer Theatre on the Air (1946) is a CBS radio drama series produced, directed by and starring Orson Welles.
 It was a short-lived summer radio series sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon, on Friday evenings at 10 p.m. ET lasting 15 episodes.
 It harked back to Welles's earlier "The Mercury Theatre on the Air" (1938) and its successor, "The Campbell Playhouse", but was not able to replicate its success.
 The series offered 30-minute adaptations of classic plays and novels, plus some adaptations of popular motion pictures, whereas the original had offered more depth in its 60-minute running time.
 Although the Mercury Theatre troupe had disbanded when Welles was fired from RKO studios in 1942 and the Mercury players were dismissed with him, this radio series offered a reunion of many Mercury personnel, including Richard Wilson (who would direct the rehearsals) and composer Bernard Herrmann, as well as familiar actors such as Agnes Moorehead and William Alland.
Hollywood Playhouse, also known as Woodbury Hollywood Playhouse, is a radio anthology drama series that featured adaptations of plays and short stories.
 Created as a showcase for Tyrone Power, the series began October 3, 1937, on the Blue Network, with Darryl F. Zanuck introducing his 20th Century-Fox star.
 The half-hour program aired Sundays at 9 p.m. ET until September 1939, when it was moved to the NBC Red Network Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
 Woodbury Soap and Jergens Lotion sponsored the show.
The Hollywood Palace was an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly (generally on Saturday nights) on ABC from January 4, 1964, to February 7, 1970.
 Originally titled "The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace", it began as a midseason replacement for "The Jerry Lewis Show", another variety show, which had lasted only three months.
 It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse (where Lewis' series had originated, temporarily renamed "The Jerry Lewis Theater" from September through December 1963) on Vine Street, which was renamed the Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood.
 A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard (similar to that of a vaudeville house).
The Woodbury Soap Company is an American manufacturer of personal care products such as cold cream, facial cream, facial powder, after-shave talc and ear swabs.
 Founded in Albany, New York in 1870, the company was sponsor to popular radio programs in the 1930s and 1940s.
Poetic Justice is a compact disc released 19 November 1996.
 It contains two radio plays: "Harris and the Mare", based on Stan Rogers' song of the same name, adapted by John Gavin Douglas for the CBC Radio series "Nightfall", and "The Sisters" by Silver Donald Cameron, a play written for "CBC Playhouse", for which Stan wrote and performed the music.
An expanded radio dramatization of the original "Star Wars" trilogy was produced in 1981, 1983, and 1996.
 The first two radio series, based on "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back", were produced and broadcast by National Public Radio (NPR) as part of "NPR Playhouse".
 A dramatization of "Return of the Jedi" was produced by most of the same team and also broadcast on NPR.
Maurice Zimm (June 19, 1909 – November 17, 2005) was an American radio, television and film writer, whose most famous creation was the "Creature from the Black Lagoon".
 The son of Jewish immigrants who settled in Iowa shortly after the turn of the century, Zimring moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s, and wrote for such mystery and drama radio series as "Hollywood Star Playhouse" and "Murder By Experts" under the pen name of Maurice Zimm.

Question: The radio series "Hollywood PLayhouse" was sponsored by Jergens Lotion and a company founded in what year?
Answer: 1870