Word: wbbm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, nine minutes before the close of WBBM's Ellery Queen program, a water hose burst in the transmitter cooling system, and WBBM had to go off the air. Almost immediately WBBM's switchboard was swamped with calls, all asking, "Who was the murderer?" The phone girl had to call CBS in Manhattan, whence the program had been coming, to find out. The next hour she spent replying: "The murderer was Mr. Wiggins. . . . The murderer was Mr. Wiggins. . . ." Next day WBBM called back another thousand who had left their numbers, reporting Mr. Wiggins' crime with trimmings...
...that week's twist in the Adventures of Ellery Queen, a four-month-old radio hour in which armchair experts assemble evidence from a dramatization of a mystery, spend the last twenty minutes of the show trying to put the finger on the murderer. What happened when the WBBM hose burst was a better clew to the interest of radio fans than any radio survey...
...Station WBBM...
...money received by WBBM for its Northwestern game broadcasts is kept by WBBM...
Last year WBBM sold its football broadcasts to the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., and this year to the Kellogg Co. Never at any time has WBBM, Socony, or Kellogg paid Northwestern University for the rights to broadcast any sport...