Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public opening of any sort, unbent on May 3 only to the extent of personally hoisting the B. B. C. flag: "A terrestrial globe on an azure field, representing the ether, with the seven remaining planets in the sky around it. Around the globe is a, golden ring representing broadcast transmissions through the ether encircling the earth...
Performers of world prominence who have broadcast for B. B. C. include Basso Chaliapin, Pianist Paderewski, Amos 'n' Andy (who proved unpopular), Paul Robeson (popular), G. B. Shaw and the late, great Danseuse Pavlova. (Today B. B. C. eschews and frowns upon such "stunts" as broadcasting Mme Pavlova's dancing footsteps, popular though they proved in 1924, 1925 and 1927, accompanied by ballet music...
...During the General Strike of 1926 with Press, telegraphs and telephones silenced, B. B. C. broadcast not only news and Government announcements but railway timetables and essential facts of every sort...
...Despite criticism B. B. C. has broadcast both sides of the Soviet and Indian questions, but St. Gandhi was not heard by British listeners though he broadcast from London to the U. S. and Canada...
Radio gave U. S. music an added puff last week. Fortnight ago five unidentified symphonic compositions (weeded out from 573) were played over the National Broadcasting chain, listened to by 150 judges in all parts of the country who telegraphed their votes back to N. B. C. in Manhattan. Week later the five pieces were played again, the composers announced. Philip James of Manhattan won $5,000 for Station WGZBX, a midget symphony which ingeniously describes lobby confusion at a studio, interference and "static, a slumber hour, microphone hysteria. Another $5,000 was divided between Max Wald, a native...