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Fortnight ago FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly had cut loose with a report on radio as a monopoly, a report which threatened to topple the whole controlling superstructures of the two big chains, NBC and CBS (TIME, May 12). Mark Ethridge, liberal, sense-making general manager of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the industry's keyman and ex-radio tsar, had just promised President Roosevelt to make a general survey of the industry. After the report, to start the survey would have been like beginning a census of Yugoslavia the day after the Nazis launched their Blitz...
Master of Ceremonies George Jessel announced a song: "You Can't Come Into My Parlor, Said the Networks to the Fly." Then radio men turned homeward, determined to get a Congressional investigation of FCC, but more than a little leery of what such an investigation might turn into. They saw no help from their onetime great friend, Franklin Roosevelt. When reporters had asked him to comment on the scrap he waved an airy hand, said there were more important things to think about. And the new week's news was worrisome: Congress suddenly got ready to give Trust...
...obliged to drop its Blue network, as FCC has demanded, it may not be able to find a spot for its expensive hour-and-a-half symphonic program. In any case it may not be able to get a conductor of the caliber of Toscanini or Stokowski. Last week, in the face of these many painful ifs, NBC said merely that the Symphony would continue...
When N.A.B.'s board met Mutual's challenge by endorsing everything President Neville Miller had said about FCC and Mutual's treaty with ASCAP, Mutual's three principal members-Manhattan's WOR, the Chicago Tribune's WGN and California's Don Lee network-resigned N.A.B. membership. Mutual withdrew from the N.A.B. board...
...Garrison finish at St. Louis won ratification from a majority of its 169 member stations. By signing on the eve of the National Association of Broadcasters convention in the same city, at which the battle of music was to be a topic secondary only to the FCC antimonopoly report (TiME, May 12), Mutual and ASCAP did the big broadcasters...