November 29, 2006

Broadcasts Game as He Plays (Jun, 1939)

Filed under: Radio — @ 1:43 pm
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1939
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Broadcasts Game as He Plays

A PLAY-BY-PLAY account of a basketball game, broadcast by one of the actual players during the contest, recently went on the air at Cleveland, Ohio. For the radio stunt, the player-announcer carried a short-wave transmitter that required no trailing wires, and the central radio studio picked up and rebroadcast his exciting description of his own plays and those of his team mates and opponents. The picture shows him in action.

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