WMAQ carried original local and network programming. Marian and Jim Jordan started at WLS in 1927 with "The Smith Family". They came to WMAQ, doing a local show called "Smackout" and later would move on to form "Fibber McGee and Molly". The program was produced at WMAQ from 1935 to 1939, when the show moved to California. During its first months on the air, "Fibber McGee and Molly" was distributed over NBC's Blue Network, which meant that in Chicago the program was produced at WMAQ but heard over WLS, one of three NBC Blue Network affiliates in Chicago at the time. "Amos 'n' Andy" was also a popular program that continued being broadcast from Chicago until 1938, when the program moved to Hollywood. Both of these shows moved production to the new NBC West Coast Radio City.