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I don't know how I feel about the anouncer for the Lewis/Baer boxing match. What i do know is that there is no way what he was saying would fly today. It seemed very odd to me that the announcer of a boxing match would openly criticize the principles of the event and the people attending. The anouncer viewed the whoole event with such disdain and condescension that I wouldn't be surprised if he got in some big trouble with Buick afterwards. I especially liked his analysis of our civilized society that flocks in droves to watch one guy beat the piss out of another guy. his comments about cavemen and women were priceless. I sat here and laughed because I couldn't believe that this guy was saying all this crazy stuff. I especially liked his analysis of the 15,000 women in the audience as cavewomen watching there men fight over them with rocks. Then he started refering to Joe Lewis as the Jungleman, was that necessary. And then, as if this announcer hadn't completely destroyed anyones excitment and interest in the fight, he brought the forshadowing of World War II. He very harshly mentions that Americans are more interested in a boxing match than the chances of a great war in Europe. What surprised me most about this radio clip is that the sponsor allowed him to make all these comments. I was expecting the announcer of a boxing match to be pro boxing and talk up the event. This guy sounded like he dind't care at all about the fight. He even mentioned the depression and how things in the US were better under Calvin Coolidge. "Two chickens in every garage."
The fight itself was pretty cool. I found myself Imagining the whole thing. And lewis really beat the hell out of Baer.
199 - Which two sports does Douglas most clearly associate with radio in the early days of sports broadcasting?
Baseball and Boxing
201 - In what year did the first broadcast of a baseball game take place? What eagerly awaited boxing match that took place in New York was broadcast the same year?
1921,the Dempsey-Carpentier fight
203 - What was skillful about the way McNamee handled baseball announcing?
He put emotion and excitment into his play-by-play that kept the listener interested and involved in the game that they were imagining in there heads
204 - In the 20s and 30s what was unusual (at least to modern thinking) about where the radio personalities broadcast from in the baseball parks of America? What was one advantage of their unconventional placement?
THey sat in the box seats. Rather than hearing the wash of crowd noise that we know, you could hear the individual fans, the players and the vendors.
204 - Douglas notes that the sounds of the public event were intertwined with the linstener's immediate environment to forever cement the public and the private worlds into one associative memory. Do you think television ever accomplishes this form of bonded memory?
Not nearly the way radio had. The only thing I can think of that Television kind of does that with is the Superbowl, or maybe the NCAA final four.
204/205 - How were broadcasts of boxing matches different from broadcasts of baseball games?
They were more in volved in advertising
The fight itself was pretty cool. I found myself Imagining the whole thing. And lewis really beat the hell out of Baer.
199 - Which two sports does Douglas most clearly associate with radio in the early days of sports broadcasting?
Baseball and Boxing
201 - In what year did the first broadcast of a baseball game take place? What eagerly awaited boxing match that took place in New York was broadcast the same year?
1921,the Dempsey-Carpentier fight
203 - What was skillful about the way McNamee handled baseball announcing?
He put emotion and excitment into his play-by-play that kept the listener interested and involved in the game that they were imagining in there heads
204 - In the 20s and 30s what was unusual (at least to modern thinking) about where the radio personalities broadcast from in the baseball parks of America? What was one advantage of their unconventional placement?
THey sat in the box seats. Rather than hearing the wash of crowd noise that we know, you could hear the individual fans, the players and the vendors.
204 - Douglas notes that the sounds of the public event were intertwined with the linstener's immediate environment to forever cement the public and the private worlds into one associative memory. Do you think television ever accomplishes this form of bonded memory?
Not nearly the way radio had. The only thing I can think of that Television kind of does that with is the Superbowl, or maybe the NCAA final four.
204/205 - How were broadcasts of boxing matches different from broadcasts of baseball games?
They were more in volved in advertising
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