Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 271, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1925 — Page 16
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Last Friday and Saturday • The Times broadcast the State high school basketball games direct f.om the playing floor at the State fairground, giving a play-by-play description of the games through WFB&l, the local station of the Merchants Heat and Light Company. That the games were heard by thousands of radio and basketball fans in all parts of the State is proved by the fact that hundreds of letters and cards reporting reception of returns have been received by The Times during the past several cUys. Reports coming in indicate the games were received clearly in all parts of Indiana. A few of the letters, picked at random, printed below, are typi- . cal.
Radio Editor Times: We appreciated your broadcasting Os the basketball tournament very much and enjoyed it immensely. The reports came in so fine and clear and we hope to hear them again next year. We enjoyed it so much that we want to thank you tot it. DR. AND MRS. S. A. GOODEN AND MR. AND MRS. KEELING. (Mr. Keeling was a member of the champion team of 1920.) Radio Editor Times: Enjoyed broadcasting fine. Our time to hear YFBM. Came in as clear as a bell. N. C. MURPHY, Mitchell, Ind. Radio Editor Times: Reports of the games came in fine and we enjoyed them very much. 'DR. AND MRS. T. A. SHOAF, Kokomo, Ind. Radio Editor Times: "The broadcasting of the State tournament was wonderful. Hope that you broadcast it again next year. /■ MR. AND MRS. GEORGE LEE, Shelbyville, Ind. Radio Editor Times: We certainly appreciated your broadcasting of the State basketball tournament. We received all of the games play by play and the neighbore c-ame in to get the finals Saturday night. It was sure some service. Os course, we want The Timee to broadcast It again next year. Frank P. NOVELL, Shelbyville, Ind. Radio Editor Times: I heard a few of the games of the tournament and I want to say that
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I enjoyed them very much. It came in wonderful. And I do not agree with your friend that sent in word that he thought it was rotten. I had the pleasure of witnessing the games Friday. My seat happened to be under the booth that was used to broadcast from, and it was my pleasure to talk to your Mr. Hendricks. If any one of your radio fans could have been there Friday and then heard the games broadcast Saturday, they Bure would have enjoyed it. Mr. Hendricks did a fine job and I hope he will be back again next year so that we may be able to hear the games If we can not attend. Thank you for the opportunity of hearing the games. We sure want The Times to broadcast again next year. Very truly yours. J. HAROLD BASSETT. Lebanon, Ind. Radio Editor Times: Received the basketball scores broadcast from WFBM, the Merchants Heat and Light Company through the Indianapolis Times, Indiana’s best newspaper, and want to say that I never miased a single game from the Vincennes-Milford scrap until the gun sounded on the final game between Frankfort and Kokomo. Thanking you for your great work and hoping to hear you broadcast it again next year. Best wishes from one of your big family of Times readers. ELMER LEHMKOUEGER, Columbus, Ind. Radio Editor Times: We listened in on the tournament and heard it very clearly. Would like to have The Times broadcast it again next year. ROY C. JOHNSON, - s Clayton, Ind. Radio Editor Times: Heart your broadcasting of the State tournament. The announcing was fine Everything was given to us so clearly that It seemed as
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WAVES LESS THAN METERALI.OWED Secretary Hoover Issues New Authorization, Bu Timet Special WASHINGTON, March 26. Authorisation has been issued by Secretary of Commerce Hoover for amateurs to use waves less than one meter in length in addition to their previous assignment. The authorisation covers the channels between .7477 and .7496 of a meter, In other words, a band at about % meter wave length. Few people realise the immense number of possible operating channels that lie In the low wave lengths. While* the band now assigned to amateurs, is only nineteen one-thousandths of one meter in width its extremes are separated by one thousand kilocycles. The Secretary pointed out that If it ever became feasible to eonduct broadcasting on these frequencies, it would be possible to place within this band 100 broadcasting stations and give to each the present separation of ten kilocycles, and said further that all the stations In the world could operate in the upper half of the one meter band. The art has of course not developed to make this possible, but the amateurs now have an opportunity to see what they can do.
though we were right at the game3. We never left the radio from Friday morning until Saturday night. Congratulate Mr. Hendricks. He was the best of all. HELEN M. LEISEY, Terre Haute, Ind. Radio Editor Times: The basketball games that you broadcast were fine. We know very little about basketball, but nevertheless we enjoyed the games very much. Sorry that Indianapolis did not have a team in the tournament. Hope they will next year. Also hope that The Times will broadcast It again next yea-. MR. AND MRS. PETER SPIEIvER, 1524 E. Tabor St., Indianapolis, Ind. Radio Editor Times: Thanks to you and the Merchants Heat and Light Company for broadcasting the tournament. I have been a radio fan for three years and have always wanted to hear the State tournament broadcast. Thanks to you, we did this year and it sure was appreciate,!. Broadcast it again next year. . DEI.BERT L. TURNER, Anderson, Ind. Radio Editor Times: We sure did enjoy the basketball games broadcast by The Times, was a grand success and we want you to broadcast them again next year. Thank you very much. GLADYS BRAY, Marti ns villey Ind. Radio Editor Times: Pern-.it me to thank you for the excellent service and broadcasting your paper rendered us during the I recent State basketball tournament, i The announcing wds very good and { plain at all times. Wishing you the I best of luck and that you may have charge of this again next year I am. Yours very truly, F. S. WHITCOMB. Shelbyville, Ind. Tie the pnoue cord to the headband, if > \ don’t want tbe Vshaped gerd ticßMng you under the
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