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...biggest plagiarism award ever made in an industry which has no effective protection for mere ideas, and the first ever made for an alleged piracy from the one medium to the other. No one was more shocked by the verdict than KLAC's General Manager Don Fedderson, who sputtered: "Weddings are in the public domain! There have been wedding programs since the '30s; I used to put one on myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Private or Public Domain? | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

Original credit for thinking that the U.S. public would like to hear the famed Japcaster goes to KYA's 6-ft., 31-year-old, South Dakota-born president, Don Fedderson. He got the idea one morning at 4 o'clock. It stood the test of daylight. It pleased both the FCC and the Office of Censorship. It delighted Roos Bros, who, in a trial poll on the propriety of the program, got 97% approval. The poll's heavy mailbag indicated that the program would collect a sizable audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: So Smelly the Rose | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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