Fr. Christopher Decker

“Despite the popularity of the coverage, spot news, as Sutherland described it, was still a rarity in 1927. Even with radio's instantaneous speed of dissemination, the ability to cover news with that same immediacy was not something radio stations were equipped to handle; during the 1920s that kind of on-the-spot coverage was taken care of exclusively by newspapers eager to sell extra editions. Since stations themselves were not really making any profit—the bulk of the money was being made by radio manufacturers—most stations employed little more than a skeleton on-air crew. Stations scrounged for programming to fill whatever hours they were on the air, and spending money on news reporters was unheard of.”
― Anthony Rudel, Hello, Everybody!: The Dawn of American Radio