HI299 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Argonaut Rowing Club, Foster Hewitt, Johnny Dundee
Document Summary
Giglielmo marconi: first successful transatlantic transmission in 1901. Public enthusiasm for virtual attendance at sporting events. Early play-by-play coverage created loyal listeners for educational stations. Universities were grateful for the publicity from sports programming. Accounts of intercollegiate athletics became the norm by the mid 1930s. Descriptions of play sent via telegraph in the 1890s. 1896 stanley cup between montreal and winnipeg: telegraph updates were sent to winnipeg from victoria rink in montreal. 1923: feb 8th, first radio broadcast of an ice hockey game (midland vs north toronto of the ontario hockey association, feb 16th, foster hewitt calls a hockey game between the toronto argonaut. W. a. hewitt (father and sports editor of the toronto daily star: hewitt left school when his father told him the star was going to start its own radio station. Feb 16,1923- hewitt"s first hockey game on cfca radio. May 24 1925, hewitt and his father made the worlds first broadcast of a horse race.