At last! Someone remembered Edward R. Murrow and the group [Shirer,
Trout, Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood, Larry LeSueur, Richard C.
Hottelet, Winston Burdett and Cecil Brown] known affectionately as "The
Murrow Boys"
P.B.S. did a 2 hour "American Master" documentary entitled: "Edward R.
Murrow: This Reporter [Part I]. May still be available at P.B.S.
Some shots of early transmitters and Philco receivers and shortwave
audio clips from London [during the "Blitz"] and Berlin and the great
journalistic reporting from the concentration camp, Buchenwald. You can
hear the QRM, QRN, and the RTTY from an adjoining frequency.
You can also search for a 33 RPM vinyl record entitled, "This Is Edward
R. Murrow". It was produced by CBS News for the CBS network. It was an
original broadcast, aired just a few days after Murrow died on April 27,
1965. Several s.w. broadcasts there also.
John wrote:
SR wrote in message ...
I was wondering if durring WW2, did people record audio broadcast on
shortwave and if they, what are these recording called and where could I
hear them at?
73
You might try searching out some OTR (Old Time Radio) sites and
checking out the 'news' files. Many have news mp3 files of WWII.
Though there are no files directly linked to shortwave, the nightly
radio news back then would feature live reports from the different
theaters of combat via 'shortwave' -- if the 'atmospherics' were
cooperating. Sort of like live via satellite (when live satellite
feeds were a big deal for the nightly news). It's kind of fun
listening to these live reports and hearing the static and other QRM
and QRN one gets used to when listening to shortwave. And sometimes
the atmospherics didn't cooperate and all you heard was static and
then the anchor, like Robert Trout, would apologize for the static. I
believe the news files you need to check out are like...CBS WORLD NEWS
TONIGHT. This particular news division featured a lot of live reports
via shortwave during their nightly broadcasts. Used effectively by
Edward Murrow. It was the way William Shirer would report nightly from
Berlin. And as he later said, he wouldn't know whether he was giving a
great report, or if all his efforts were simply dissipating into the
static. He would get reports back from New York the next day through
phone calls whether his live reports had made it through.
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MZ
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