Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale Broadcast...
...refusal of the University to allow Harvard's major football games to be broadcast next fall deserves serious and careful attention. By refusing to permit this broadcasting, the University is deliberately throwing an obstacle in the path that it had so wisely chosen to follow. These broadcasts would bring in a substantial sum each year which could be added to the present Athletic Endowment Fund. The addition of this money to the Endowment Fund is not to be lightly rejected, as Harvard's other major and minor sports cannot depend upon football's gate receipts forever. The sooner that athletics...
...these major games next Fall were broadcast, many people living in New England would develop an early interest in Harvard football, and after hearing several of them on the air, might be inclined to see one or two later in the season. Several authorities in New Haven believe that this added interest on the part of the general public has helped the Yale gate-receipts to a very marked degree. Should the same situation develop here, part of this added revenue might also be turned over to the Endowment Fund...
...main opposition to this broadcasting plan comes from those who say they would object to hearing the Harvard team described in action with any reference to a commercial product. This could easily be prevented by agreements between the H. A. A. and the company paying for the broadcasting facilities. It is rumored that one company has already expressed its willingness to use its name only five times during the broadcast, once at the beginning, once at the end, and once between each quarter of the game...
Sponsored by Harvard in connection with its program to promote the study of American history, DeVote's lecture on the material of history in the modern historical novel will be broadcast internationally by shortwave radio over the non-commercial station W1XAL of Boston, on 6.04 megacycles...