Chanticleer and the Races

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 27, 18 January 1929, Page 23

Chanticleer and the Races

ATRLY 2FC delighted followers of horse racing by transmitting the sport direct from Melbourne, Newcastle, and Canterbury, all on the same afternoon, with never a hitch or a pause. The sensitive microphone picked up and transmitted with startling clarity the enthusiastic crowing of an old rooster in close proximity to the Canterbury course, and this novel touch greatly amused listeners, who are quick to respond to anything in the nature of "atmosphere. " They, too, had cause to "crow." The successful manner in which the race descriptions were relayed from

three different courses so many hundreds of miles apart was a triumph of organisation,- and one on which the New South Wales Broadcasting Company is to be warmly congratulated.