George Noory does it again!!!

[vonmazur]

I just have to complain about this.......

On the show commererating the Frisco earthquake of 1906, George played a recording of some football game, and claimed that it was a recording taken off the air, of some play by play interrupted by the 06 quake.....

I may be wrong, but I think the first commercial voice broadcast station was KDKA in Pittsburg PA, circa 1920....and I wonder just what kind of "Not invented yet media" was used to record this event.....

George is getting sloppier and sloppier, Oh for Art Bell to come back, at least he knows his radio facts better than this guy!!!

Dale in Ala

[Bob]

The Big One occurred at 5:12 am on April 18, 1906. Not many games going on at the time. The first radio broadcast of the human voice was on Christmas eve of the same year.

Should I know George Noory?

[01101001]

Noory: Coast to Coast AM (http://www.coasttocoastam.com/), took Art Bell's place.

I suspect it was the broadcast of the 1989 World Series baseball game at Candlestick Park, when the Loma Prieta (http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-29/) quake struck.

The Exploratorium hosts a video clip (http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/activezone/media/vid-worldseries.html) that contains the moment.

[vonmazur]

George is the new head honcho at Coast2Coast AM....as stated above...

George is always ranting and raving about how experienced he is in broadcasting, so I was a little surprised when he made the statement listed above, I thought that football was played in autumn and winter, and that games at Stanford University were broadcast later on, but not in April 1906,
Just another reason to not listen and save my blood pressure from rising....

Dale in Ala

[JohnW]

Surely not what Noory was on about, but I found this (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5352622) radio story, on NPR this morning, interesting. The 1906 quake re-enacted on a wax cylinder.

[Gillianren]

I vote for it probably being the Loma Prieta baseball game, too.

My mom lives in LA county, and at the time, so did I, and I saw the earthquake. Didn't feel it, mind, but the overhead light in the dining room swayed back and forth. One of us said, "Someone's having an earthquake." Lo and behold . . . .

[George]

I just have to complain about this.......

On the show commererating the Frisco earthquake of 1906, George played a recording of some football game, and claimed that it was a recording taken off the air, of some play by play interrupted by the 06 quake.....

The first one [football] I know of was from Texas A&M (http://w5ac.tamu.edu/5xb.php).

...the first live radio broadcast of a football game. The broadcast was made on Thursday (Thanksgiving Day), November 24, 1921 from Kyle Field in College Station, Texas by amateur radio station 5XB (http://w5ac.tamu.edu/history.php3#call)

[vonmazur]

It was a Stanford game most likely in the 50's, definately not the Loma Prieta Baseball Game at Candlestick....And he did say, "they were Broadcasting a Football game back then...."

Dale in Ala

[Eta C]

Most amusing as Stanford did not even play football in 1906. Checking out last year's press guide (http://www.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/stan/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/2005guide167-181) they dropped football after the 1905 season and played rugby until 1919. The guide doesn't include the dates of the games, but none of them are indicated to be incomplete. Five of the nine games were against the same opponent (Vancouver) with other games against Nevada, Victoria (in Canada), Pomona, and Cal.