The race was carried live for the first time in history on local television on WFBM-TV channel 6 of Indianapolis.
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1949 Indianapolis 500 Radio Broadcast, Mutual: Re-broadcast on "The All-Night Race Party" - WIBC-AM (May 28, 2005)
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