Word: kstp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meat for Caesar. Probably they would get no more satisfaction than did Minneapolis radio station KSTP, which succumbed last week to the uncompromising czar of American music, after fighting a rear-guard action against him for ten months. KSTP agreed to hire a minimum of eight musicians (at minimum wages of $52 apiece for a 22-hour week), which is more musicians than the station needs...
Thus last week did angry Stanley Hubbard, boss of Minneapolis radio station KSTP, salute the latest impudence of cocky, stocky James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the American Federation of Musicians...
After a four-month contract dispute, Boss Petrillo had just pulled his musicians out of KSTP. He had done this despite a temporary injunction specifically forbidding...
...Minneapolis, took him on as announcer, jazz-record-player, occasional vocalist. He built up a sizable following of jitterbugs for his record program, White Heat, enrolled many a hepcat in his White Heat Club of America. When he moved across the river to St. Paul's station KSTP, Minneapolitans remembered him chiefly for the double talk he ad-libbed between records. It sounded something like: "Come on, you pulsating, cheerilating, titillating, palsadictasomnadictadypsomaniacs of thermal rhythm, and listen...
...radio are paid by networks or sponsors. But many of Boss Petrillo's men play without extra pay in the dance bands picked up, usually after 11 p.m., in hotels and nightclubs, and fed to the networks as "remotes." Last week, after NBC and CBS refused to deprive KSTP and WRVA of these remotes, Boss Petrillo instructed dance bands not to make such broadcasts. MBS came under the ban when it helpfully piped its remotes to the other networks...