[Ads-l] hot mike/mic

[Ben Zimmer]

Thanks, Peter. Clearly the same list of radio jargon was floating around.
>From slightly earlier in 1930:

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https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93465842/hot-or-live-mike/
BInghamton (NY) Press, Feb. 25, 1930, p. 15, col. 2
Today's definition of broadcasting studio terms: Hot (or live) mike -- A
microphone in operation or in readiness to pick up a sound.
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 7:37 PM Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Daily Illini, April 5, 1930.
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> I'm researching "hot mike/mic" for an upcoming Wall St. Journal column.
> OED3 includes a cite for "hot mike" from 1937 in its entry for "hot" (sense
> 9h: "electrically connected or charged; turned on; live"). So far I've
> antedated that to 1930:
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> https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Broadcast-Advertising/Broadcast-Adver=
> tising-1930-04.pdf
> <https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Broadcast-Advertising/Broadcast-Adver=tising-1930-04.pdf>
> Broadcast Advertising, Apr. 1930, p. 16, col. 2
> Broadcasting has its own language, a few words of which are quoted here
> from the glossary that is running serially in the "Voice of Columbia."
> "Hot mike" -- A microphone in operation.
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> https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93427038/hot-mike/
> Bangor (Me.) Daily News, Feb. 10, 1931, p. 9, col. 7
> A glossary listing words and phrases peculiar to radio engineering has been
> compiled by Engineer Irving Reis -- the Dr. Vizetelly of the Columbia
> Broadcasting System=E2=80=99s technical staff. [...]
> Hot Mike -- Microphone with current applied. A "dead mike=E2=80=9D is one
> t=
> hat is
> shut off.
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> Can anyone find anything earlier? An Internet Archive search suggests it
> may be in the Oct.  1929 issue of National Radio News, but that item is
> currently unavailable:
>
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> https://archive.org/search.php?query=3D%22hot+mike%22&sin=3DTXT&and[]=3Dyea=
> r%3A%221929%22
> <https://archive.org/search.php?query=3D%22hot+mike%22&sin=3DTXT&and[]=3Dyea=r%3A%221929%22>
> https://archive.org/details/NRNV02N03Oct29/NRN_V02_N03_Oct29
>
> I don't see "hot mike" skimming through the PDF for that issue here:
>
> https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-National-Radio-News/NRN-1929-10.pdf
>
> --bgz
>
>

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