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Last week, five days after officially taking office as A. F. of M. president, Jimmie Petrillo was laying about him with Chicago vigor. In an attempt to bring two radio stations to heel, he cracked the whip over the three major networks. The stations were St. Paul's KSTP (NBC affiliate), Richmond's WRVA (CBS). Each was embroiled in a local musicians' strike, because it declined to pay a minimum yearly sum, or guarantee a minimum number of jobs, to local musicians, whether needed...
...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...
Also he tied up long-term contracts with Guy Earl's station KNX in Hollywood, Stanley Hubbard's KSTP in St. Paul. From a slowstart, Transradio rolled up many a potent client-the Michigan Network, the Yankee Network in New England, WLS in Chicago, KWK in St. Louis...