Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figures also comforted stockholders. On a total gross of $112,639,000, RCA's net last year was $9,024,000. For the first time Mr. Sarnoff told how much of that was made by NBC: $3,700,000 on a gross of $41,000,000. (CBS profits last year...
Most comforting of all to stockholders who had been reading the woeful financial pages lately, was the news that both NBC and CBS had a larger advertising revenue in March than either of them had ever had in one month before. NBC figures: $3,800,000; CBS: $3,000,000. Radio advertising is mostly contracted for in 13-week lumps, which protects the networks from any really precipitous fall in earnings. But not even the most melancholy stockholder, considering what has happened to advertising in most newspapers and magazines in the last six months, could refrain from concluding that...
Radio. National Broadcasting Co. dropped 70 employes in November, a few weeks before General Motors' discontinued its Sunday Symphony, Chevrolet's Romantic Rhythms (CBS) and Pontiac's Varsity Show. But NBC's 1937 take for radio time turned out to be $125,000,000, an 18% increase over the previous year. Thirty-six new stations were licensed during the year. As further evidence of good health, last week the three big networks contracted for 1,000 additional musicians...
...Aires, are checked by university professors, Pan American Union authorities and the Office of Education, but not by the State Department, which diplomatically avoids seeing the scripts. These have been in preparation for six months under Dr. William Dow Boutwell, director of the Federal radio project, and Irving Reis, CBS production director...
...allocated among the stations remains to be determined by the N. A. B. To help the poorest broadcasters pay their new quotas, National Broadcasting Co. and Columbia Broadcasting System will put up $200,000. NBC's total music expenditures will rise by about $750,000 a year, CBS's by $400,000, Mutual System...