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NPR Story on Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts
NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday today featured a story by Keith Brand on the history of Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on radio.
It's well-known that NBC originated regular live broadcasts on Christmas Day 1931 (hosted by the durable Milton Cross), but Brand's story also describes an experimental broadcast arranged by Lee DeForest in 1910.
Brand's story includes a brief simulation of what the 1910 broadcast may have sounded like, including interference created by a radiotelegraph operator who ignored DeForest's request for radio silence during the opera.
The Morse code tones in the simulation are represented as fairly clean "beeps," but it made me wonder if this is what they would have actually sounded like a hundred years ago (I thought Morse code in those years sounded more like jagged bursts of static or short and long "buzzes").
Can anyone confirm the accuracy of the simulation? If it's not accurate, can anyone provide a better description what Morse code transmitting sound like in 1910?
(Posted by Feliks Banel)
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