Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service will be conducted by the Very Reverend Edmund S. Rousmaniere, Dean of the Cathedral Church, assisted by Rev. Donald B. Aldrich, Chaplain of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. The entire service and sermon will be broadcast by radio. On Monday, Mr. Studdart-Kennedy will be the guest of the clergy of Massachusetts at a luncheon, and will conduct a series of meditations in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul...
...long ago radio telephony was invented and developed with a marvelous rapidity. As if overnight, elaborate sets were on the market. Big Companies, like the General Electric, Westinghouse, Edison, American Telephone and Telegraph, broadcasted programs of music and other diversions, which might be listened to in fine reproduction by anyone owning a radio set. Thousands and thousands bought sets, and the great radio fad was under way. It increased to wonderful proportions. Today newspapers run special radio supplements, and throughout the country countless numbers of people " tune in" every evening, and pick up what diverting sounds they can through...
...President of one of these companies is reported as saying that a great fortune awaited anyone who would devise a means of levying toll for broadcasting service. This seems impossible. You send out into the spreading atmosphere a program of music and talk in the form of wireless waves. Anyone who has a radio set may listen to this program, without any charge or without the possibility of another's preventing him. The phonograph company sells you a machine and then sells you records. The radio company sells you a set and then gives you free broadcast service...
...Broadcasting costs money. There are mechanical expenses to begin with. At first important musicians and verbal entertainers were willing to perform gratis for broadcasting, in consideration of the advertising. But soon, when nearly everybody had sung into the radio, the advertising value diminished. All that the radio companies could get were third-rate performers. They turned on the phonograph for the radio. That made the affair ridiculous. They have not done it so much lately. Protective organizations for musicians demanded pay for radio service. Orchestras still continue to allow the broadcasting of their concerts. At big sporting events spoken reports...
Meanwhile Mr. Bok deposited $100,000 in securities with the Garvin Trust Company of Philadelphia. Also, the Policy Committee has invited the cooperation of several organizations, who will broadcast the conditions of the contest and, when finally a plan is selected, will have their members vote for or against the chosen plan, as a test of public sentiment...