Template:Did you know nominations/Russ Winnie

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The result was: promoted by Lightburst (talk) 21:51, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Russ Winnie

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... that to announce the first commercially broadcast Green Bay Packers game in 1929, Russ Winnie read off telegraphs at a studio sent from someone who was at the game? Source: first commercially broadcast telegraph ("he did so from a studio, not a press box, reconstructing the games from reports he received by telegraph.") also here
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Improved to Good Article status by BeanieFan11 (talk). Self-nominated at 20:18, 17 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Russ Winnie; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @BeanieFan11: Good article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 16:18, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

I think the hook may benefit from some reorganization. At the moment it is not as clear as it could be. I may be alone in this assessment so I will promote it and if anyone else agrees we can fix it in the set. Lightburst (talk) 21:50, 21 August 2023 (UTC)