Word: nets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Terms of the contracts were substantially those agreed on with NBC in August (TIME, Aug. 11). It took three months to get affiliated stations to ratify, though the stations are the principal beneficiaries. Instead of paying ASCAP 5% of net receipts from time sold, as in the old days, they will now rebate to the networks 2¾% of network-derived revenues for the privilege of using ASCAP music. Instead of nothing, as before, on their commercial business the networks will pay ASCAP 2¾% of their net receipts. Network-operated stations will...
...chain of incompetent, unbusinesslike and wasteful practices" for which another receivership seemed inevitable. That was five years ago. Last week Paramount stockholders got their third-quarter report: profits were $3,071,000, highest since 1930 and almost double the $1,726,000 cleared a year ago. More significant, this net was twice that of archrival Loew's Inc. After ten years of tussling, Paramount was again the biggest money-maker in show business...
...minds of U.S. broadcasters. He had a place, too, in the thoughts of a U.S. Government pledged to combat his oppressors. Last month, after a great deal of bucking and yawing, the two interested parties in shortwave affairs got in harness together on a working program. The net of it: henceforth the Truth sent to short-wave listeners by the U.S. would not be sent at random, but would hit at Nazi propaganda as purposefully and quickly as an antidote hits at a poison...
...large subcontractor, G.E. has expanded only 20%.) By January he expects to have post-war sales and capacity estimates from every G.E. department. His committee will then offset one department's capacity surplus with another's deficit, start planning at once for the use of any net surplus...
...Only about one-third of the Journal's plant valuation alone, a figure that would net the Doherty estate a satisfactory tax loss...