The station also experimented successfully in many forms of news broadcasting , including weather and crop reports . Its most famous news broadcast was the eyewitness report of the Hindenburg disaster by Herbert Morrison . Morrison and engineer Charles Nehlsen had been sent to New Jersey by WLS to cover the arrival of the Hindenburg for delayed broadcast . Their recordings aired the next day on May 7 , 1937 , the first time that recordings of a news event were ever broadcast
Hindenburg disaster
Hindenburg disaster
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