Word: kaltenborn
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...pundits rode in on a powerful historical groundswell, which really began with the Munich Crisis of 1938. That crisis became a great personal triumph for healthy, hearty, opinionated Hans von Kaltenborn. He was the only important commentator on the U.S. air at the time who was ready for it. He had a good idea of what Munich meant and said so. He was ahead of the printed press and the other networks...
Sound Scoop. For 18 days, during the crisis, Kaltenborn scarcely left the CBS studios. He made 102 broadcasts of two minutes to two hours each. Able to trans late Hitler, Daladier and Mussolini as they came hot off the short wave (luckily there were no sun spots to destroy reception), he gave the radio public an instant summary of their talk and its meaning. The U.S. public had never listened so widely or so intensely to radio news before, and it bought more receiving sets during the crisis than in any previous three weeks of radio history...
...year and a half later NBC hired Kaltenborn away from CBS - which by that time had grown weary of his ex-cathedral tone, had acquired the dry, reassuring voice of Elmer Davis, and was plugging him hard...
Soaring Eaglet. Before Munich, comparatively few people in the U.S. had heard of Kaltenborn or knew that he had been on the air for 16 years. He got into punditry by virtue of his associate editorship on the Brooklyn Eagle, a penchant for public speaking, and a well-traveled curiosity about foreign nations...
...this radio business," he said gloomily. "After the war, television is coming in and it will ruin my business. This crystal reception is no good for high-frequency stuff. Already Kaltenborn is cutting into my trade...