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RADIO BROADCAST
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sidered to have been performed when those in attendance at a banquet at the Masonic Temple heard a concert received in the banquet hall by means of a three-wire aerial strung along the
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By this time the original transmitting set found to be inadequate for the increasing "equirements and it was almost entirely rebuilt. In the following June a two-wire antenna, 290 feet in length, was stretched between the News building and the Fort Shelby Hotel. Soon reports began to come in from distant points that the News concerts were being quite audibly received. Belleville, 111., sent word that the concerts were enjoyed there and Atlanta, Ga., startled even the News operators by announcing that the broadcasting was carrying successfully to that distant place. Code messages came in from remote radio stations everywhere in the world, including the U. S. Navy station at Bordeaux, France, Nauen, Germany, and Hawaii.
The News now decided to organize its pro
grammes on a more elaborate scale. They had previously been restricted, principally, to phonograph music and news bulletins, but now musicians were added and theatrical talent secured from Detroit playhouses to supplement this. The first noted literary man to send out his compositions through the ether to thousands of ear-pieces, was Edmund Vance Cook, the poet.
In December, 1921, the present ambitious programme was inaugurated. By this time the radio department occupied the entire time of a programme manager and two technical men, which staff has now grown to eight persons.
To-day phonograph music occupies an incidental place on the daily schedule, and the programmes are filled by stage celebrities, prominent clergymen, musicians and public figures of various sorts, many with national reputations. Among the noted stage persons who have made their radio debut in the News transmitting room are Frank Tinney, Van and Schenk, Percy Wenrich, and Lew Fields.
Detroit News Auditorium