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AP Success - AP US History: 1920s Broadcasting & Radio's Golden Age

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"[Brief introduction before WLS Showboat: station identifications— WSB Atlanta, WOS Jefferson City, WLS Chicago]

Announcer: WSB [chimes] — the Voice of the South; radiophone broadcasting station of the Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Georgia, announcing Ed and Grace MacDonald, everyday Georgia folks in one of their homemade ditties, “Tote Your Load.”

MacDonald: “Yes, sir, folks Here we go, don’t you know . . . Yeah!”

Accouncer: WOS, Jefferson City, Missouri. The King of the Ivories will play his famous interpretation of “Three O’Clock in the Morning.” [piano]

Announcer: Hello, everybody. WLS Chicago, the Sears Roebuck station, broadcasting from our Center Theater studio. We are presenting Art Carn [?] and his Columbia Recording Orchestra in “Lucky Kentucky.” All aboard for Kentucky on the unlimited train. Let’s go, Art!"

WLS Showboat: "The Floating Palace of Wonder," late 1920s.

Question 1

Multiple choice

The reference to WLS Chicago as 'the Sears Roebuck station' suggests that in the 1920s:

Question 2

Multiple choice

The program 'WLS Showboat: The Floating Palace of Wonder' is indicative of which trend in 1920s America?

Question 3

Multiple choice

The inclusion of 'Ed and Grace MacDonald, everyday Georgia folks' in the radio broadcast is an example of:

Question 4

Multiple choice

The broadcast of 'Three O’Clock in the Morning' by 'The King of the Ivories' on WOS Jefferson City, Missouri, illustrates:

Question 5

Multiple choice

The phrase 'All aboard for Kentucky on the unlimited train' used by the WLS Chicago announcer can be seen as:

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