Radio Broadcast (May-Oct 1925)

Record Details:

Title:
Radio Broadcast
Date:
May-Oct 1925
Publisher:
Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company [etc.]
Volume:
Radio broadcast ..
Leaf #:
000505
Language:
English
Subjects:
radio periodical, Radio -- Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Radio Broadcast supported home listeners of the new technology of radio – for building or buying a receiving set to explaining the technology used by the new radio stations. Throughout the magazine shows the cultural influence of radio as it evolved from hobbyist to mainstream. -- David Pierce, 2011
Date Added:
September 29, 2022
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Open-Air Broadcasting 47 MARION DAVIES Who was heard at a "Motion Picture and Vaudeville Star's Radio Party" from station wip, in Philadelphia ing of a tablet to Thomas A. Edison, from Menlo Park, New Jersey. The speeches were in the open air and came through in excellent fashion. But the scene of the affair was close to the main line of a railroad, and at times during the broadcasting, the hasty puff of the engines came through the microphone with such force as to interrupt the words of the speakers. Governor Silzer, of New Jersey, who made one of the principal addresses, remarked that the occasion was probably the first time that the State of New Jersey was in direct competition with the railroads. Many of us have felt, during the broadcasting of a prize fight, to choose a happy example, that the miscellaneous noises— the cheering of the crowd, the gongs and bellow of the announcer in the ring— are a decidedly necessary and desirable part of the affair. The commercial noises of a railroad, however,