- Wrote and directed the first Television show for NBC.
- Signed Armed Forces Network Radio on the air for the first time during WWII in Europe. Along with a fellow actor, Broderick Crawford, he built and organized the first U.S. Army radio station. Light then became the first commander of AFN, headquartered in the Pentagon.
- Taught advertising and radio broadcasting in the Los Angeles Community College school system for twenty years.
- It was said at his funeral that during his live audience radio variety shows he insisted all performers provide a script, in advance. He almost refused to allow a vaudeville act to perform live when they failed to produce their script.
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