Mostly Music.

Comedy and Sports.

How do you do, every-body, how do you do? Gee it's great to say hell-o to all of you; I'm Billy Jones I'm Ernie Hare, And we're a silly-looking pair; How do you doodle-doodle-doodle-doodle-do?

But Amos 'n' Andy, which was broadcast six times a week on NBC, outdrew any other program. There were no regularly scheduled sports broadcasts, but major events were covered. The Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier heavyweight championship bout was broadcast on 2 July 1921. The first baseball-game broadcast (Pirates and Phillies) was presented by KDKA Pittsburgh on 5 August 1921. The first World Series broadcast came in 1921, facilitated by the circumstance that the Yankees and Giants both played at the Polo Grounds. On 1 January 1927 the Rose Bowl football game provided the first coast-to-coast broadcast. Graham McNamee became the best-known sports announcer of the 1920s. Radio news programs were slow to develop...