Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reprisal for a Princeton raid on the Yale Bowl, 25 Yalemen seized Princeton's radio station, overpowered its staff and broadcast Bulldog propaganda. Then they daubed Yale blue on a bronze tiger in Palmer Square, painted up a Princeton dormitory and clock, burned a "Y" into the Nassau Tavern lawn, and chopped down the Palmer Stadium goal posts. The Yale dean called it "vendetta spirit which surpasses the realm of good...
Boston's venerable Lowell Institute refused to admit its age. Last week it joined with six local colleges and universities to form the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council. The purpose: to broadcast learned lectures as a typically Boston bluestocking scheme of adult education. All seven Boston radio stations accepted the plan, which would be financed by stations and colleges, share & share alike. To the Lowell Institute it was one more opportunity to advance the cause of learning which had been the Institute's job for more than a century...
With 28 radio stations throughout New England and the Eastern states carrying a broadcast of today's classic gridiron encounter with Yale, estimates of the number of radio listeners tuned into the game ran into the millions...
Foremost of the local stations carrying the broadcast is the Herald-Traveler's WHDH, operating at 850 kilocycles. In the New York City area, WLIB in Brooklyn will feature the game, according to William J. Bingham '16, director of Physical Education and Athletics. New Haven's WNHC and the Yale Network will keep stay-at-home Bulldog enthusiasts well-informed of the struggle with a play-by-play description of this latest in a venerable series of Harvard-Yale football battles...
WHDH's engineering department would offer no definite estimate of Saturday afternoon's radio audience listening to the game, but suggested that as high as 40 percent of the total 28-station potential radio audience, running into many millions, would be tuned into the football broadcast. Radio stations covering most of the major New Enkland cities, New York City and upstate, Philadelphia, and Baltimore will be included in the East Coast hook...