It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series,

100 years of 100 Thangs.

We began on Monday with 100 years of WNY itself. Today thing number two, 100 years of radio.

Radio as a medium. It felt as new and revolutionary to people in the early 20th century as television or the internet or maybe

now artificial intelligence have in the waves of communication technology since.

Suddenly you didn't have to go to a theater,

or go to a town hall meeting, or go to a stadium

to be part of a live mass audience for news or entertainment.

Imagine how new it must have felt when people all around the country in their own homes

could hear the heavyweight championship boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Gene

20, 10y, sorry, Gene Toney, that took place in Chicago in

1927.

Ladies and gentlemen,

name about 10 rounds for the Heavy May Championship of the world.

It could go saying from Salt Lake City, Utah wearing black trucks,

weighing 9 87.5 pounds over heavyweight change Jack Dixie.

Well, I don't know if you needed to scream that loud.

Radio is an intimate medium, we know that today.

spoiler alert, Tunny One.

We've got more archival audio.

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