Day: August 4, 2014

From the MCRFB radio scrapbook:1946 / 1949

EAR PLUGS ARE FREE (WJR Fred Wolf; 1946)

RADIO IN THE ALLEYS
WXYZ Fred Wolf; 1949)

 

 

 

DETROIT (October 12) — Bowling, viewed by one branch of show business — motion pictures theater owners — as a major threat to their operation, is receiving a friendly hand from WJR.  Starting tomorrow, the state’s only 50,000-watter will air a Sunday night program, The Tenth Frame, with Fred Wolf, a former champion, as commentator.

Program will feature alley-side broadcast, which will be handled via wire recorder. Remotes from alleys are usually considered impossible because of the noise. Wolf did, however, handled the on-the-spot broadcasts from the bowling congress at Buffalo last year. END

(Information and news source: Billboard; October 12, 1946).

 

DETROIT (November 26) — Bowling now merits recognition as a sport on radio, judging from the action on WXYZ in sending Fred Wolf, station bowling commentator, to Chicago to cover three special alley-side broadcasts. The airings, totaling 75 minutes, described the five-man match game world championship held there at the Samuelson Arcade.

The time was sold to Detroit’s E&B Brewing Company thru the D. B. Donner Agency for the event, in which Detroit teams participated. END

(Information and news source: Billboard; December 3, 1949).