"The Big Broadcast" Live Sunday 7/27 7-11pm est

WAMU ^ | 7/27/14 | Ed Walker

[Vision]

Friends it's Sunday night again, and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another four hours of classic radio Americana.

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[WXRGina]

Brian, why can’t you just fry your cabbage with some onion in a little oil and the sausage? I’ll bet that would be good.

[WXRGina]

Ah! I just saw your comment. Basically the same thing I said. Fried cabbage is awesome, too.

[Vision]

That was freaky.

[WXRGina]

Yeah, it was! Jealous woman is bad woman, and when she’s a crook, look out!

[Vision]

There are a few songs from the 40’s time that talk about how great bananas are. I wonder if importing them was new around that time.

[Vision]

Yea, that sounds good. A chef I worked for would saute cabbage in butter for St. Patrick’s Day. Whatever he did is was remarkable.

[Vision]

[WXRGina]

We didn’t grow our own bananas?

[GeronL]

I am amazed to see that there were TV's around, even sold as "kits" before WW2 http://www.earlytelevision.org/andrea.html

[Vision]

I don't think so. Do you know of US banana farms? The ones from the store are from S. America.

[WXRGina]

No, I know of none, but I’ve never thought about it to research it. Bananas are tropical, so there it is.

[Vision]

‘39, wow. Didn't know they were around then. There must have been a few stations around NYC. I doubt there were signals outside of that area.A 5" tv kit was roughly $1,300 today.

[GeronL]

I was surprised too. Probably still pretty experimental back then?

[Vision]

I could be wrong, but it seems people in the 30’s, 40’s, maybe 50’s were excited about bananas.

[Vision]

Wow!

The first regularly scheduled television service in the United States began on July 2, 1928, fifteen months before the United Kingdom. The Federal Radio Commission authorized C. F. Jenkins to broadcast from experimental station W3XK in Wheaton Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. For at least the first eighteen months, 48-line silhouette images from motion picture film were broadcast, although beginning in the summer of 1929 he occasionally broadcast in halftones.[84][85]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television#Broadcast_television

[GeronL]

The Worlds Fair was in New York City that year, TV was being demonstrated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_in_television According to Wiki... April 30 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, appearing at the opening ceremony of the 1939 New York World's Fair, becomes the first President of the United States to give a speech that is broadcast by television. April - RCA, General Electric, Dumont and others begin selling television sets to the public in the New York City area. Screen sizes typically range from 5 to 12 inches, and Dumont features 14-inch and 16-inch models. Prices start at $200 and go as high as $1000. May 17 – The first baseball game (Princeton University vs. Columbia University) is broadcast by television, from Baker Field in New York. Bill Stern is the announcer. May 19 – The Walt Disney cartoon Donald's Cousin Gus airs on NBC's experimental station W2XBS (later WNBC-TV) in New York. This marked the first movie cartoon to be televised in the United States. June 1 – The first heavyweight boxing match is televised, Max Baer vs Lou Nova, from Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. August 26 – The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York. Poland broadcasts a feature film for the first time—Barbara Radziwiłłówna (1936)—using the experimental transmitter mounted atop the Prudential building in Warsaw. September 30 – The first televised college football game, Fordham University vs Waynesburg College, at Randall's Island, New York. October 22 – The first National Football League game is televised. The Brooklyn Dodgers vs. Philadelphia Eagles at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

[logitech]

Since the USA seems to be quickly becoming a “banana republic”, maybe we can grow our own.

[GeronL]

The Worlds Fair was in New York City that year, TV was being demonstrated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_in_television

According to Wiki...

April 30 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, appearing at the opening ceremony of the 1939 New York World's Fair, becomes the first President of the United States to give a speech that is broadcast by television.

April - RCA, General Electric, Dumont and others begin selling television sets to the public in the New York City area. Screen sizes typically range from 5 to 12 inches, and Dumont features 14-inch and 16-inch models. Prices start at $200 and go as high as $1000.

May 17 – The first baseball game (Princeton University vs. Columbia University) is broadcast by television, from Baker Field in New York. Bill Stern is the announcer.

May 19 – The Walt Disney cartoon Donald's Cousin Gus airs on NBC's experimental station W2XBS (later WNBC-TV) in New York. This marked the first movie cartoon to be televised in the United States.

June 1 – The first heavyweight boxing match is televised, Max Baer vs Lou Nova, from Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.

August 26 – The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York. Poland broadcasts a feature film for the first time—Barbara Radziwiłłówna (1936)—using the experimental transmitter mounted atop the Prudential building in Warsaw.

September 30 – The first televised college football game, Fordham University vs Waynesburg College, at Randall's Island, New York.

October 22 – The first National Football League game is televised. The Brooklyn Dodgers vs. Philadelphia Eagles at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

[GeronL]

Yep.

In another 10 years they’d actually look like people instead of shadows.

[GeronL]

We need to start learning. Most places might require a greenhouse though.