TUNNEY-DEMPSEY FIGHT

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 22, 16 December 1927, Page 3

TUNNEY-DEMPSEY FIGHT

SEVEN MILLION FAMILIES LISTEN. The simultaneous broadcasting of the Tunney-Dempsey fight through a chain of scores of broadcast | stations created another boom in radio throughout the United States. The night of the fight broadcast, the streets of all cities and towns were deserted. Kvervone who could get near a radio set that night, did so. It is estimated fully half the population of the country stayed home and listened to what has been called the most brilliant and stirring word picture that has yet gone over the air. For sheer sustained suspense, Graham McNamee’s interpretation of the fight was unequalled in the annals of the microphone. The sweeping melodrama of the entire fight and the fever pitch of that sensational seventh round were reproduced perfectly in the homes of seven inillion families :