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Date: 3/19/2015 10:18 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2015 : Issue 27
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Re: Still more on self-synchronizing  [ A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed] ]
      Screwy Time Signals                   [ David Fx <df789@[removed]; ]
      Re: KDKA "First Commercial Broadcast  [ nickdragos@[removed] ]
      Re: KDKA "First commercial broadcast  [ Michael Shoshani <[removed]@ ]

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    Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:50:24 -0400
    From: A Joseph Ross <joe@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Still more on self-synchronizing clocks

    This discussion has jogged my memory on the clocks in my high school.
    Apparently those clocks ran fast, so when they regulated themselves, the
    second hand would stop on the hour for a few moments.  In fact, this
    regularly happened at 2:00, when the school day was to end.  The hand
    would get stuck on the hour for what seemed like an eternity before the
    bell rang.

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    A. Joseph Ross, [removed]| 92 State Street| Suite 700 | Boston, MA 02109-2004
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    Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:50:41 -0400
    From: David Fx <df789@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Screwy Time Signals

    "You're not the only one to miss this boat," he confided. "Lots of them get
    on the wrong boulevard coming down from [removed] or else set their watches by
    those screwy time signals that come over the radio."

    So wrote Stuart Palmer in The Puzzle of the Pepper Tree (1933) one in a
    series of Hildegarde Withers mysteries.
    I found it amusingly coincidental that I should read that sentence this past
    Monday morning  just as the subject of clocks and time signals was lighting
    up this list.

    David

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    Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:51:19 -0400
    From: nickdragos@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: KDKA "First Commercial Broadcast"
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    Re: KDKA "First commercial broadcast"

    The commonly heard excerpt frequently described as KDKA's famous election broadcast
    did actually emanate from [removed] not in 1920.

    In the 1940's, KDKA produced a fine syndicated program called "Adventures In Research",
    which, in my opinion, did a very fine job of explaining various aspects of the scientific world
    from a World War Two perspective.

    Episode #95 was called, "The History Of The First Regular Radio Broadcast", with host
    Paul Shannon and Dr, Phillips Thomas, a Westinghouse research engineer in East Pittsburgh.

    Near the middle of this 15 minute transcription, which can be heard in its entirety at
    The Internet Archive at: [removed] ,
    there is a most familiar sounding recreation of the November, 1920 KDKA Election
    Night Broadcast.

    Part of the broadcast was dedicated to pushing KDKA's claim as America's first non-
    experimental radio station. Those of us West Coasters, who think the KCBS claim has
    at least some merit, raise a suspicious eyebrow at that.

    I do believe the frequently used "excerpt" used in so many radio documentaries and
    histories, is taken from that program, dated November 21, 1944.

    Nick Dragos
    Burned Out Ex-Jazz [removed]
    Carmichael, California

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    Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:51:53 -0400
    From: Michael Shoshani <[removed]@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: KDKA "First commercial broadcast"

    Alan Bell wrote:

>     I don't think the re-creation of the KDKA broadcast came from Hear It Now. I
>     have a copy of an old NPR story about Robert Conrad's garage (out of which
>     KDKA emerged) and the reporter said the re-creation was done in the 1930s,
>     pre-dating Hear It Now by at least 10 years.

    Ah! Thanks for clearing that up, and it makes sense. I'm sure that KDKA
    had more than one anniversary recreation in its history that predated
    Hear It Now.

    If I may offer a very slight correction, that would be Dr. Frank
    Conrad's garage. Robert Conrad was, and so far as I know still is, the
    guiding light behind Cleveland's public radio station WCLV.

    Michael Shoshani
    Chicago

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