The run
- Network
- Network pool
- Years active
- 1948–1949
- Surviving broadcasts
- 14
- Genre
- news
A collection of surviving complete baseball broadcasts from the late 1940s, including games from the 1948 World Series between the Cleveland Indians and Boston Braves and the 1949 Red Sox–Yankees pennant decider. These are full-length network play-by-play transmissions, commercials and all, rather than later edited highlights. Preserved in the public domain at the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
4 dated broadcasts across 79 years on the air, with 78 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. Dead Air · 5 May 2026
- 2. The Long Silence · 12 May 2026
- 3. A Room Above the Street · 19 May 2026
Night Broadcast
4 Aug 2026 · 27 min
The one everybody argues about.
The Last Train Out
28 Jul 2026 · 42 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Signal at Midnight
21 Jul 2026 · 57 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
A Room Above the Street
14 Jul 2026 · 20 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Long Silence
7 Jul 2026 · 35 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Dead Air
30 Jun 2026 · 50 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Sign Off
23 Jun 2026 · 1h 5m
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Case of the Missing Hour
16 Jun 2026 · 28 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Same seasons
news on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The broadcast desk
Wartime correspondence and Cavalcade of America established the daily explainer and the narrated history hour long before either had a feed.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Baseball on the Air
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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