Word: broadcastings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Radio listeners, being human, want the best of everything. But they don't always get it. The nightly ether-music is too often indirect advertising. Prudent musicians object to the broadcasting of their programs; people won't buy seats in stuffy concert halls if they can stay at home and listen to the same thing. For these and allied reasons, the Chicago Civic Opera will not broadcast its performances this Winter...
...public was surprised, gratified last week when the readers of the Chicago Daily Tribune declined that paper's offer to broadcast the Loeb-Leopold murder-trial proceedings. The public was further surprised, further gratified when the Tribune editors took counsel over this rebuff, recovered their poise, came out with an open confession of the journalistic soul and a sincere proposal for reform that would have done credit to the most reputable paper in the land...
...broadcasting on a national scale, we will have to fall back on the land wires of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. as a basis. These wires will receive the speeches from the microphone, where it is set up, and take them to the cities from which they are to be broadcast, whereupon the local stations in those cities will put them on the air. In other words, the main wire channel is limited to what the American Telephone and Telegraph Company can provide. It has a service to maintain, and cannot throw overboard every thing to give right...
...Chicago Tribune conducted a referendum among its readers to discover if they wished to have WGN, the Tribune's radio station, broadcast the trial, beginning Aug. 4, of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr., alleged murderers of Robert Franks...
...citizen of Bournemouth, England, went to Cardiff on a business trip, had a heart seizure. Immediately he telephoned to his Bournemouth doctor. Then he marched to a Cardiff radio station, arranged to have his heart beats broadcast during the interval of a morning program. The Bournemouth physician listened in, telephoned treatment...