Evening star., 1936-10-18

the public as fast as newsmen can
gather the returns. This year, unlike
the four preceding elections during
which radio played It's role, the broad
casters will for the most part enjoy
the full cooperation of the press,
with which it entered into a salts
factory truce several years ago-a
press not only very largely friendly
toward radio today. but itself now
owner of or corporately aff1liated with
about one-fourth of the radio sta
tions OF the country.
Where formerly they had to depend
upon their own resources to gather
the returns, sometimes affiliating with
individual newspapers that were
friendly, the network and station
broadcasters this year will work hand
in hand with all the press asSocia-
tions and with many newspapers. The
individual newspaper tie-ups will be
mostly local, but the networks. with
their national coverage. will have the
benefit of the combined resources OF
the Associated Press, United Press and
International News Service.
THE three big press associations
several years ago Joined to form
what is known as the Press-Radio
Bureau, which gets all their reports,
consolidates them and edits them into
one special report for the radio. Radio
foots the bill for this bureau and gets
brief news summaries periodically and
flashes of news Of transcendent i'm
portance This year the Press-Radio
Bureau will feed" the election re-
turns via special wires into the head
quarters of both the major networks,
each OF which Is making elaborate
arrangements to broadcast them with
suitable commentaries and interpre-
tations.
National Broadcasting Co. has an
nounced its tentative arrangements
include an election report at am.
election day direct from the little
village of New Ashford. Mass. tradi-
tionally the first town to complete its
vote count. Throughout the evening
news and commentary periods will be
scheduled, but entertainment pro-
grams will also be interrupted to bring
the returns to listeners. Assigned thus
far to the announcing job for N. B. c.
are Graham McNamee and John B.
Kennedy.
Columbia Broadcasting System
plans a somewhat similar schedule,
with Robert Trout, Westbrook Van
Voorhies DIETER known as THE Voice
of Time'O and H. v. Kaltenborn at
the microphone. Both networks will
also have microphones and announc-
ers at Republican and Democratic
National headquarters in Chicago and
New York, and at the homes of the
candidates in Hyde Park and Topeka.
Both expect to get the party chair
man, party notables and perhaps even
the presidential candidates themselves
to speak to the radio audiences. Both
will have sound pickup trucks cruising
in New York, and microphones on the
streets in other cities, to pick up "the
sound and the fury" of election night.
Both will broadcast their full reports
on the short as well as the regular
broadcast waves, SO that the rest OF
the waking world can hear them too.
There is every likelihood that the |
big networks will be on the air long |
after the usual midnight or ! am.
signoff hour, In order to be able to
report to their audiences definitely |
who has won. Together with what |
the local stations will provide in the |
way of local and sectional returns, |
the American listening public. staying |
at home, should miss very little of the |
big news the night of November 3.
N1HEN old Jack Frost sheaks out of
Nv Summer hibsrnation to gild
Autumnal pumpkins with chilly
sheen, the followers of foot ball who
indulge in tie sport via the easy chair
and ioudspeaker are assured not only
of q wide assortment of Saturday
afternoon competition but a thrilling
Sunday afternoon as well.
More than ever, the 1896 outdoor
sports season has been a bonanza Of
excitement for radio fans. Particu.
larly is this the case with foot ball, a
form of athletic endeavor that often
requires almost as much from spec
tators exposed to the whims of a
heartless weather man as it does from
the mud-laden players.
Broadcasters have tackled the foot
ball schedules with unusual excite
ment this season, especially because
of the interest that sponsors are
showing in the gridiron pastime. So
intense was the competition for rights
10 broadcast college games all over the
country that bidding often ran into
high figures and even into court
rooms.
Most of the furore centered around
Saturday college games, of course. but
there also has been q bit of skir-
mishing for rights to broadcast play. |
Lby-play accounts of professional foot
ball games, most of which are played
on Sunday afternoon. The pro sport
has been growing in popularity every
year.
THE net result Of this behind-the-
scenes scramblipg has been
blessing to fireside athletes who don
slippers and robe for week end of
pieskin indulgence, with perhaps q
10-yard dash to the kitchen between
quarters for q refill when the last
ounce of cider has been drained from
the glass.
The business of providing word pic
lures of the colorful Autumnal sport
has reached a high state of perfec- |
tion. Even before the season was |
under way, announcers were study
ing teams In their twilight stadium |
drills. Several sponsors who had ar
ranged for number Of foot ball |
broadcasts each Saturday in cities |
scattered over wide areas went so far |
rs to hold preseason drills for an
nouncers, experts in grid patter be-
Ing hired to give local word tossers
some tips on how 1t is done.
Les Qualiey, who has been providing
Ted Husing with his foot ball facts