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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...
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...money received by WBBM for its Northwestern game broadcasts is kept by WBBM...
...WBBM first reported the N. U. gridiron schedule in 1928 and has enjoyed and respected this broadcasting privilege for many years. The station broadcasted all of the 1936 Northwestern games, and plans to follow the "Wildcats" throughout the 1937 season...
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...