Radio broadcast .. (1922-30)

DECEMBER, 1926 THE FUNDAMENTALS OF FOOTBALL ANNOUNCING 161 Evidently no announcer now covering football games comes up to a full hundred per cent, in each of these departments, though several ap- proach it closely. Probably no one will ever re- ceive a perfect rating, but station managers might well be guided by the five suggested requirements in selecting the best man for the position. WGN's Football Schedule M1SFORTUNE, indeed that the scheduled broadcasts of football games from WGN, Chicago, were omitted from the list ap- [ pearing in this department last month. We made request for a schedule many weeks ago, which drew no trace of reply. We make amends, printing be- low the games that are yet to go: November 2oth, Ohio-Illinois, at Champaign. November 2~jth, Army-Navy, at Chicago The Boston Symphony Orchestra orchestra's forty-sixth—is being sponsored by WBZ with the financial backing of the same Mr. Quinby. Fortunately for us of the Middle West, stations more powerful than WBZ are to join occasionally in a hook-up, so the concerts should be generally available to any one east of the Mississippi, wjz, WGY, and WRC will assist in broadcasting fifteen of the twenty-four con- certs. For your reference we print the schedule: Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerts November 13, 20* December 4*, n*, 18,25* If Everybody Invited! :: :: Men, Women, Children MEMORIAL HAJLL TONIGHT TO HEAR BY RADIO RETURNS CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT OF DEMPSEY-TUNNEY the full orchestra of one hundred and ten men. The concerts are to be given in Carnegie Hall, and are especially designed to fit the needs of the student musician. The entire season's program, which is now being prepared by Mr. Mengelberg, will be built in the form of a musical education, and the history of rruisic will be traced from the days of the early composers down to the latest composers of classical music. The complete list of dates on which the Stu- dent Concerts will be heard is given: November 6th, I3th, and 2yth; December i8th; January 1st, and 15th; February jth, and izfh; March 19th, and 26th; and April 2nd. With the New York Sym- phony being heard regularly (in the Balkite Hour at WEAF) as well as the two aforemen- tioned orchestras, prospects look bright for enjoyable Satur- day nights in the winter to come. T! I HE event of the winter radio season which this (particular listener is looking forward to most eagerly is the series of twenty-four concerts by the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra. This justly world-famous organization went on the air for the first time in its history on January 23 of this year, in a series of concerts through WEEI. This move, a radical one for such a dignified, conservative old band as that of Boston, was brought about through th^ efforts of W. S. Quinby, a Boston manu- facturer, and WEEI. The Boston Symphony runs not the remotest risk of losing out in gate receipts because its wares are broadcast, for cov- eted tickets to Symphony Hall have long been in the class of family heirlooms and are passed down in wills from generation to generation. Another ob- jection the directors originally held forth was that mechani- cal difficulties might impair the broadcast program. Evidently they have been satisfied that the reproduction is accurate enough or they would not have authorized the present radioseason. The loud speaker version of the concerts is, of course, not a perfect reproduc- tion of what is going on in Symphony Hall. Its distortion is particularly acute when the music reaches great crescendos of volume. But since listeners realize the existing shortcomings of broadcasting it does not injure the prestige of the orchestra. Some sort of Boston Symphony concert is better than no Boston Symphony con- Cert at all. Moreover anything as perfect as the results Serge Koussevitzky draws from his 107 musicians can stand a lot of mauling without being entirely shorn of its original beauty. The Venus of Melos is still pretty fair to gaze upon in spite of being dragged over the rough cobble stones by a rope around her neck. The broadcasting of the present season—the THE DAYTON* EVENING HERALD 3OOO Seats All FREE! "Blow by Blow" From Ringside By Radio Every Move by Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney in Their Fistic Encounter at Philadelphia TONIGHT Will Be Flashed a Second Later to Memorial Hall. Here in Dayton, by the World-Fame*!* Sports Announcer J, Andrew White. Auhted by Graham McNatnee, from Station WEAF, New York. 4 RCA Loud Speakers Placed So That All May Hear Every Word (ALSO A BRUNSWICK PANATKOPE FURWSHED BY THE ANUKRSON PIANO CO i OPERATED FROM THREE 7-TUBE DAYTON MADE DAY-FAN RADIO SETS Under lfceP«non*l Direction of Captain 0. E. Marvel, Nttkndr-KixnrB R»dk> Engineer of The Day-Fin Electric Co., D«Yton, Ohio. ALSO PRESS WIRES DIRECT FROM RINGSIDE Better Come Early! Doors Open 6:30 P.M. Preliminaries Stairt 7 P.M. Dayton Time The Dempsey-Tunney Fight A NI HOW THE DEMPSEY-TUNNEY FIGHT GOT TO DAYTON Major J. Andrew White was the first ever to broadcast a fight from the ringside to listeners by radio assembled in halls. The occasion was the Dempsey-Carpentier fight. For the more recent Dempsey-Tunney bout, also broadcast by Major White, the Dayton Herald, of Dayton, Ohio, arranged a party in Memorial Hall of that city, and invited the public to hear the announcements, blow by blow. The hall was filled and reports have it that the impersonal loud speakers, giving forth the details of the fight, eight hundred miles away, held the crowd tense January i, 15,22*, 29* Feburary 12, 19*, 26* March 5*, 19, 26 April 2, 16*, 23*, 30* • *Stations, wjz, WGY and WRC will tie in with WBZ to broadcast the symphony concerts on these dates. On the dates not starred, wjz will be broad- casting the student concerts of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, which we pleasantly recollect as one of the best of radio's offerings last winter. In the twdve Student's Concerts, which will run intermittently throughout the coming winter, the last one coming in the early part of April, Willem Mengelberg, will conduct ND, speaking of sports, perhaps we may be per- mitted, at this our first opportunity, to comment on the broadcasting of the Dempsey- Tunney fight. This broadcast may be reckoned as an out- standing event in radio's young history in that it was heard by countless thousands more of people than ever listened to a sports event before. Some thirty-odd stations were in- volved in the hook-up. It is our guess that for those forty- five minutes there was listening- in the largest audience ever attracted by a single broad- cast, which, if you like super- latives, means the largest audi- ence in the history of the world. What we want to get off out chest first is some unstinted praise for J. Andrew White who- reported the fracas. His was as perfect a piece of work as. we have ever heard over the radio and we hope that every aspiring sports reporter in the country heard it to take a lesson from it. Even the Ma- jor's informal remarks before the bout started were effective. For instance, when he laugh- ingly complained that Graham McNamee, his assistant, was using his back as a table tc write on, he conveyed a perfect picture of the crowded condi- tions at the ring side. And from the sounding of the first gong his delineation of the progress of the fight was an almost incredible feat of rapid, intelligible reporting; never a pause, nor a search for words, nor a garbled up sentence. To be sure, we writhed every time he said idea-r-r or jaw-r-r but what was that beside the fact that he employed no more than three "er"s in the whole thirty minutes. In contrast to Major White's fine job was the miserable exhibition made by McNamee, whose duty it was to handle the mike during the one minute rest periods between rounds. Never has^ this star announcer been more off form. He hemmed and hawed and blustered about and