Radio Broadcast (May-Oct 1924)

J. ANDREW WHITE Who announced the proceedings of the Democratic National Convention for stations wjz and wgy. He is shown before the microphone in his sound-proof cabinet in Madison Square Garden, New York THE MARCH OF RADIO By Excellent Broadcasting of the Political Conventions was the first task the broadcasters faced and they did a good job. The broadcasting stations as far west as St. Louis and Kansas City and as far east as Boston and New York were linked up with that beautiful Public Auditorium in Cleveland by special land wires. More stations were linked together for the Democratic Convention, and, as everybody knows, they were linked for a much longer time. Eighteen stations used the wire telephone links of the. American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and wjz and wgy of the Radio Corporation, used separate Western Union connecting lines and their own announcer. During the short span of the Republican convention — which went off with neatness TUNE and July have passed and with them the nominating conventions of the two I great political parties. National nominating "conventions are always a test for I the party holding them. Conventions test men and they test principles. But at both the Republican and the Democratic conventions, radio broadcasting was also on test. For the broadcasters and the politicians were acute enough to see, almost before the campaigns for the various candidates were much more than a breath in an otherwise pretty calm political atmosphere, that radio, linked with the Presidential nominating convention and campaign would be extremely valuable. The Republican Convention at Cleveland