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...Blues were noticeable around Mutual. MBS, theoretically a non-profit-making organization which lacks any real central executive, and functions in fact as a glorified switchboard (stations pay wire charges themselves), is in position to meet the rigorous new network limitations imposed by FCC. If, as the decrees in effect ordain, all stations are made mutual, and any station may buy any station's programs, MBS will be on a par with the other chains...
...Trendle never had to worry about money again. Last year the Ranger netted him a half-million dollars. The program, carried over some 80 MBS stations, and 75 independent stations spotted all over the U.S., accumulated 20,000,000 listeners, innumerable bread, candy and pop sponsors. It also goes on transcribed recordings in Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Canada...
...Justice bigwig in having Valtin whoop it up for democracy. Since he lacked the citizenship necessary to appear on Miss Donnell's Government-sponsored I'm An American show, she persuaded him to go on for WOL, wrote a script for the occasion. Neither WOL nor MBS, its network, gave any publicity to the Valtin program. But long-nosed Manhattan Columnist Leonard Lyons sniffed out the news. Forthwith Washington began to stir.But reporters did not spot Valtin before the show and they did not find him afterward. While they waited outside Manager Dolph's penthouse apartment, intending...
Last week it looked as though Adam and NBC would profit no more from fighting. Shouldering into their sporting alley came MBS and Gillette Safety Razor Co., brandishing a contract with Promoter Mike Jacobs, by which all his Twentieth Century Sporting Club bouts would be theirs for the airing. Stunned were Adam and NBC, whose contract with Jacobs ends in June. Since Jacobs looms in boxing like a Mellon in aluminum, they would probably waste their time broadcasting any matches outside his jurisdiction. But NBC was not willing to be counted out, claimed at week's end it still...
...their Government on speaking terms. Along with fireside chats, political debates, spot-news broadcasts of national events, the radio forum helps to put the whole nation into a healthy, old-fashioned town meeting. Outstanding are America's Town Meeting of the Air, University of Chicago Round Table, MBS's American Forum of the Air. Oldest of these is the American Forum, which from small beginnings in 1928 has progressed until today it is a favorite aerial stamping ground for U. S. Congressmen...