Presto

June 14, 1924.
P R E S T C
22
SPEED IN BROADCASTING
Amazing Comparisons of Voice Traveling Re-
lated by E. F. McDonald, Jr., Following
Carpentier-Gibbons Fight.
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A new and novel use for the portable radio set is
suggested by an experience of E. F. McDonald, Jr.,
president of the National Association of Broadcasters,
during the Carpentier-Gibbons fight at Michigan
City recently. Mr. McDonald and his party were in
well-elevated box seats 25 rows back from the ring
with nothing to obstruct the view. Telling the story,
Mr. McDonald says:
Major J. Andrew White, the famous fight and
world series announcer, had the job of giving the
world of radio the light, step by step in word pic-
tures. When the principals were called to their
corners and the crowd sat with bated breath, eagerly
waiting for the starting bell, Major White was at the
microphone, close to the ringside. He was able to
see more than most of us, and besides understood
what he saw better than most of us. Almost as in-
teresting as the pictures he drew of the fight were
his individual interpretations of them. Only a few,
however, of the vast throng of people gathered there
got the benefit of Major White's spoken observations.
His actual voice did not even carry to where we were.
We could see the heavy black ribbon on his eye-
glasses and his peeping handkerchief, and we could
see his lips move, but we could not directly hear a
sound that he uttered. We should have missed a
great deal of the fun and significance of the occasion
had it not been for the Zenith portable radio set,
which sat with us in our box. That radio not only
entertained my guests, but the spectators for a
goodly sweep around us.
The fight, of course, was amazingly interesting,
but all the more so with the Major's version of it,
blow by blow. W r e marveled at the speed with
which the Major interpreted every blow. It seemed
the blow was hardly struck when the Major had al-
ready announced it and made some comment. Yet
his voice was traveling nearly a hundred miles by
air and radio before it reached our portable radio set
there in the box, 25 rows back.
The part the portable played is additionally inter-
esting when one realizes that Major White's voice
was being carried a distance of about 55 miles by
land from the microphone over telephone wires* to
broadcasting station KYW, where it was transformed
into radio waves and sent back a distance of approxi-
mately 40 miles by air line. Our party was only a
few feet removed from where Major White did his
announcing. Had we been able to hear his voice
directly it would not have reached our ears as quickly
as it did. over radio. By means of radio his voice
traveled over that entire mileage much quicker than
in the natural form of sound waves over a distance
of less than 100 feet. It is a fact that an individual
listening on the radio in California to grand opera
being broadcast in Chicago actually hears sooner
than the audience in the back of the opera house.
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