The Dempsey -Carpentier WJY Radio Broadcast(1921)

[Brutu]

This was the first(?) boxing match to have ever been aired live over radio.
and the first(planned) pay-per-hear event?

(article from WIRELESS AGE August 1921)
http://earlyradiohistory.us/century2.htm

(article from January 2000)
http://earlyradiohistory.us/WJY.htm

[Brutu]

According to the article from 2000 Wireless Age.
The first boxing(and sports event)to have aired on radio was,not Dempsey-Carpentier,July.2.1921,
but Johnny Ray vs Johnny Dundee, April.11.1921,aired locally on KDKA radio,from Motor Square Garden,Pittsburgh PA.

[Brutu]

I had hear a rumour a few years ago from my friend's cousin's uncle,brother-in law,,that a wax cylinder was found in an old shoebox in a closet full of junk in an abandoned building
in Hoboken that was about to be razed,that said a label was found with it saying it was a wax recording of the Dempsey-Carpentier
radio broadcast and that they had planned to announce it about their historic discovery of it on this program here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnsizkVjGm8

[Caractacus]

This older man remembers listening to it live back in the day (well almost)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S_QdaxED3o

[APerno]

This older man remembers listening to it live back in the day (well almost)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S_QdaxED3o

A monument to everything oral histories have to offer - small details and (unintential ) insights you can't find anywhere else, coupled with inaccurate information.

Love the fact that copying down what you heard on the radio excited the neighborhood. He had to be talking earlier than Dempsey-Tunney - by '27 the neighbors would have had their own radio and wouldn't have been interested in what the kid wrote down.

Radio hit the way VCRs did in the 80s, almost 'overnight' - in '21 there were hobbyists and radio was an exception - by '27 almost everyone had some form of access to a radio.

[Caractacus]

yeah,but cut the old dude some slack,as he was trying to remember something about 95 years ago when he was about 4 .

[APerno]

yeah,but cut the old dude some slack,as he was trying to remember something about 95 years ago when he was about 4 .

For sure - I meant you get 'everything' from these old guys; things you just can't find written anywhere - they have a true value to history - but you have to watch where their memory takes them - I loved watching him, good post.

[Caractacus]

Have you ever seen the 1941 movie THE GREAT AMERICAN BROADCAST ?
Its a musical /Drama about the early days of radio and in one part they 're-create'
The Jack Dempsey vrs Jess Willard fight radio broadcast,
I havent seen that movie since the 1970's but I emember it was really cool to see the Manassa Mauler because you got to hardly see him in action on old film back then..