Word: telecasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baritone), but singing was "too much of a grind." After he began sports announcing, he spent eight years playing second fiddle to Sportcaster Bill Stern, doing the crowd description fill-ins at big games and announcing the second-string events. In 1940 he had a chance to telecast the New York World's Fair Soap Box Derby. In & out of television ever since, he deserted radio for good last November and bet on video as a full-time career...
...friends helped out by bar-hopping and giving him reports of audience reaction to his sportcasting. For a while, he had an uneasy sensation that he was becoming a victim of technocracy-"merely a stooge for mechanical contraptions." But he solved that problem by insinuating himself into the telecast. Because he has to remain an offstage voice and seldom appears on the screen, he devised such tricks as calling for a cup of coffee on a bitter day and munching peanuts audibly at a ball game...
...this one memorable broadcast, television proved that its window on history was almost as clear as the newsreel's, and far closer in time. Telecasters bragged that they would soon be opening their window on bigger & better sights; RCA President David Sarnoff announced that the 1948 presidential campaign would be televised. But unless television got a move on, few in the U.S. would see a political or any other kind of telecast...
...lady who asked him strange questions and made him put blocks in holes. After the lady decided which group he belonged in, things began to seem better. On the second day, a Mickey Mouse cartoon telling how to pronounce the alphabet, a play session with model airplanes, and a telecast of Mother Goose songs ushered Peter into the wonderful audio-visual-tactual routine that was to keep him fascinated during all eight years of studying the "Common Learnings." At first he disliked being one of the group who got their long vacation in winter (his only free stretch in summer...
Almost lost in the shuffle was the fact that the show was the first commercial U.S. telecast by relay. Because television waves, unlike radio waves, are not reflected earthwards from the sky, no station can broadcast beyond its horizon (usually about 50 miles). Television impulses cannot be sent clearly by telephone wire, and coaxial cable, which does carry them, is unavailable because of the war. So to reach Philadelphia, Philco set up an automatic relay halfway between New York and Philadelphia. This picked up the telecast from NBC's Manhattan station WNBT, stepped it up to its original power...