The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-06
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RECORD RADIO
HOOKUPS Will
REPORT VOTE
Election Breakfasts Far
Ahead of Other Years
in Extent.
RM Times SpectaL


NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-The most
complete and far-reaching election
hookup in history will carry vote
returns tonight to radio fans Of the
nation, through the National Broad
casting networks.
Coming into the studio via bat
terry Of high-speed telegraph print
erS will be the cream Of the cleo
ton news as collected by the 10O,-
900 persons estimated to be con-
nected with the three press associa-
tions-the Associated Press, the
United Press and international
News Service-which viii cooperate
with the National Broadcasting
company to supply radio listeners
with a complete report of election
results.
This cooperation means that the
broadcasters have back OF them the
greatest news-gathering combina-
ton ever effected.
According to M. H Aylesworth,
president of the NBC, only such
news as in indicative and readily
understandable will go on the air.
Entertainers to Help
To break what might become a
tnonotonous stream Of facts and
figures, a corps of entertainers has
been recruited to supply interludes
Of music and entertainment during
the election broadcast.
The election story Is scheduled to
begin at o'clock Tuesday night, a
time when first returns will be
trucking in from eastern states.
The broadcast will end when either
Hoover or Smith has been assured
of the necessary votes to win the
election.
If the contest is a close one, the
NBC is prepared to broadcast all
night and on into the following
day until the race is decided.
Results Of senatorial and con-
gressional contests also will be
broadcast over the network, while
stations on the network will be
given chance to break in with
announcements of strictly regional
interest.
The NBC HoOkup
Stations which will broadcast the
NBC-Associated Press United Press
International News Service report
include: WEAF and WIZ, New
York; WEEP and WBZA, Boston;
WBz, Springfield; VITO, Hartford;
WAR, Providence; WTAG, Wor-
cester; WCSH, Portland; WIFI and
WILT, Philadelphi WRC, Wash
ington; VIDAL, Baltimore; WGY,
Schenectady; WGR, Buffalo, WHANI,
Rochester; WCAE and KDKA,
Pittsburgh; WTAM and WEAR,
Cleveland; WWJ and WJR, Detroit,
WSAI and WLW, Cincinnati; WGN,
WLIB and KYW, Chicago; KSD
and KWK, st. Louis; woo, Daven-
port; WHO, DeS Moines; WOW,
Omaha; WDAF and WREN, Kan
sas City; WCCO and WRFIM, Min
neapolis-St. Paul; WTMJ, Milwau-
kee; KOA, Denver; WHAS, Louis
vile; WSM, Nashville; VINO, Mem
phis; WSB, Atlanta; WHIT, Char
lotte; KVOO, Tulsa; WFAA, Dallas,
KPRC, Houston; WOAI, San An
tonic; WBAP, FIT. Worth; WRVA,
Richmond; WAX, Jacksonville;
KPO and KGO, San Francisco;
XII, Los Angeles; KGW, Portland;
KOMO, Seattle; KHQ, Spokane;
WEBC, Superior, and KSL, Salt
Lake City.
Columbia Also on Air
Eliminating all lost motion and
wasted time between the counting
of the ballots and the announcing
of the results, WABC, IKE and the
entire Columbia Broadcasting SyS-
tenn will radiate the election re-
turns through a transcontinental
network numbering more than fifty
transmitters tonight beginning at
8 o'clock.
A special network of wires will
bring the figures into WABC, the
key station, thereby lessening the
time lost in the transmisSions over
general circuits. In addition to the
announcement of the actual figures
as they are tabulated by expert
statisticians, Interpretation of the
results by political authorities and
wriers will be given, interspersed
with entertainment.
The night will be divided into
f1fteen-minute periods, alternating
a period of election statistics and
interpretations with entertainment.
Stations in Network
The stations of the Columbia
system that will broadcast the re-
turns follow: WABC, WAN, Phila-
delphia; WNAC, Boston; WEANI,
Providence; WFBL, Syracuse;
WNGAK, Buffalo; WCAO, Baltimore,
WAS, Pittsburgh; WADC, Akron,
o.; WAN, Columbus, o.; WKRC,
Cincinnati; WGHP, Detroit; WBBNG,
Chicago; WNAAQ, Chicago; WOWO,
TT. Wayne; KNOX, st. Louis;
KMBC, Kansas City; KOK, Council
Bluffs; WSPD, Toledo; WICC,
Bridgeport, Conn.,; Wink, Cleveland;
WLBL, Oil City, Pa; WNIAL,
Washington; KSPP, st. Paul;
KFEQ, st. Joseph, Mo.
EpI Fan MOT GIIIJTY