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WHRB's "Operation Play-by-Play" get its final approval from the H.A.A. recently. The H.A.A.'s decision came after more than 60 percent of 1.500 students polled by the station indicated they would listen to the broadcasts. Electricians have just laid a direct wire from the I.A.B. to the station...
This will be the first time that WHRB has broadcast an extended series of play-by-play programs...
...Detroit News (founded by his father, James E. Scripps, a half-brother of Newspaper Titan E. W. Scripps), and founder (in 1920) of the world's first commercial radio station, Detroit's WWJ-first to broadcast U.S. election returns, one of the first with symphony concerts, play-by-play accounts of ball games; of a heart ailment; at Lake Orion, Mich...
...radio, few announcers have flown as high as Gordon McLendon, 31. Five years ago Announcer McLendon started a Dallas radio station with one big drawing card: daily broadcasts of major-league baseball games. He paid the major leagues only $1,000 a year for the privilege of broadcasting play-by-play accounts received on a teletype from the East, put the games on the air with dubbed-in sound effects of cheering crowds and the crack of bat against ball. His formula worked; soon other stations in the West and Midwest were clamoring for the broadcasts. McLendon joined...
...Three Lives, by Herbert Philbrick. Fascinating play-by-play account of Author Philbrick's nine years as an FBI counterspy in the Communist Party and some of its fronts (TIME...