Evening star., 1949-09-18

~ IsoIty
There may not have been an!
noticeable autumnal tang in tn
air yet, but another football sea
son is upon us. Baseball still
is being played 1--WE hear from
other quarters, but the gridiror
boys are beginning to get the at
tention of television and radio
This undoubtedly. from the TV.
radio standpoint. will be the most
fully covered football season yet
pigskin telecasts and broadcasts
already having started and get
ting under way seriously next
week end.
In television, the plans look
something like this:
WMAL-TV-All home games OF
the Redskins, with Harry Wis
mer and Jim Gibbons at the
microphones, and possibly some
college games, though nothing is
definite yet along this line.
WNBW-A number of Eastern
Seaboard classics are lined up on
the 10-week schedule, which
starts next Saturday with the
ArIny-Davidson opener at West
Point. Bob Stanton. who is one
of the ablest, will be the COM
mentator.
WOIC-A hometown schedule
Of Friday afternoon telecasts OF
high school games seems to be
tn the works, according to all the
indications of this departments
espionage. If the plans are ap-
proved, the first telecast might
take viewers to the Wilson-Cool-
idge game this Friday The CHS
plans for college football still are
tentative, with the exception OF
the Navy-Notre Dame game on
October 20.
WTTG-Five Notre Dame games
telecast by Du Mont. starting this
Saturday with the Indiana tilt.
Radio listeners will have a
choice from a schedule that shapes
up something like this:
WASH-FM-Play-by-play de-
scription of all Baltimore Colts
games, the next set for September
rs.
WMAI-All games Of the Wash
ington Redskins, at home and
away, reported by the above-mer-
toned Mr.. Wismer and MIR. Glib
bons. On Saturday afternoons, a
college tilt selected by ABC.
VIOLA Saturday afternoon list
of intersectional contests via MBS,
starting next Saturday with the
Missouri-O Ohio State game.
WRC-A major college game
every Saturday, with Bill Stern.
WTOP-The three-hour Foot
ball Roundup every Saturday
afternoon. with Red Barber, CHS
sports director, supervising pick
ups from five or six games and
wire or direct reports from some
two dozen others.
,WWDC-All games Of the Uni
versity Of Maryland, with Ray
Morgan doing the play-by-play.
X 4 + u
That CHS Football Roundup.
incidentally. represents q bit OF
unfinished business In this de.
partment. A small dissenting voice
here last year brought an 'immed-
late response from Mr.. Barber, in
much more congenial tone than a
complaining critic usually en-
counters. The football season was
nearly at an end, however, so
excerpts from the Barber report
have been saved for a more fitting
time, which this seems to be.
FIRST" the sports broadcaster
wrote, in part, I'VE have been con-
vinced at CHS that on most Sat-
urdays the broadcast Of the
detailed play-by-play of a single
football game is not as satisfactory
to network audience of 48 States
as it might be. A game of interest
to the East is not of interest to
other sections, and so on ad in
finitum. -
I'VE have felt since 1916 that
college football was played all
over the United States and at a
consistently high level in all Sec
tions and that it behooved us to
have as many different sections
represented in our broadcasts and
as many different schools as pos
sible. We have consistently avoid
ed following any one team.
I'VE have become increasingly