Big Broadcast

The Big Broadcast, manufactured by Bingo Novelty Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Illinois, is an early pure mechanical (PM) pinball machine from February 1933. Built during pinball's formative years, it predates flippers and other electro-mechanical innovations that would define later machines, relying instead on gravity, pins, and simple mechanical scoring.

Little is documented about the machine's designer or specific gameplay features. Notably, Bingo Novelty Manufacturing Company's run was short: in March 1933, D. Gottlieb Company obtained an injunction restraining Bingo Novelty from manufacturing, producing, selling, or advertising the Big Broadcast or any similar machine under another name, effectively shutting the game down.

For collectors and historians, the Big Broadcast is a scarce artifact from pinball's pre-flipper era, valuable both for its rarity and for the legal dispute that curtailed its production.