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Boiling up menacingly was the year-old feud between one of the Commission's three Republican members, New York's George Henry Payne, and Cincinnati Radioman Powel Crosley Jr. over the 500,000-watt experimental permit granted three and a half years ago by the Commission to Crosley-operated WLW. Last year Commissioner Payne, although he is technically assigned to the Commissioner's telegraph division, wrote Mr. Crosley asking whether WLW was not taking advantage of its "experimental" status as the most powerful broadcaster in the U. S. to reap unusual commercial profits, and demanding a balance...
...last month two things happened at once. The F. C. C. extended WLW's experimental strength for another six months and Powel Crosley announced the appointment of a new $10,400-a-year publicity adviser. He was Charles Michelson, still working for the Democratic National Committee at $25,000 a year...
Just before the new appointments were announced last week, Commissioner Payne gave newspapers a sizzling letter he had just dispatched to Powel Crosley. Excerpts...
Soon after M. B. S. was organized, an advertiser wanted WLW as a Cincinnati outlet for his program in addition to VOR and WGN. Operated by Powel Crosley Jr., who makes radios and controls the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, WLW is the most powerful radio station in the U. S. (500,000 watts). It soon became a cooperating member of the Mutual net work. On June 1, 1935 M. B. S. began trading sustaining programs with the Canadian Radio Commission, and in September added CKLW (Windsor, Ont.) to the network. Canadian programs gave U. S. listeners variety and CKLW gave...
...means out of the running, three teams were last week fighting for the two remaining places in the league's first division. Of the three-Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Giants-the Reds, in the third season under their enthusiastic owner, Radio's Powel Crosley, appeared the ablest, as they were undoubtedly the most surprising, because they have won only one pennant in 51 years, have been tailenders since 1929. The Boston Bees (onetime Braves), feeblest team in the league a year ago, were battling sturdily in sixth place, far ahead of the Philadelphia Phillies...