Word: radiomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More interesting to Texans last week was the question of whether Hearst, is involved in the deals. Elliott Roosevelt is continuing in his berth at Hearst Radio, Inc., and local radiomen in Fort Worth and San Antonio last week freely declared they thought he was merely acting as a front for William Randolph Hearst. According to Elliott's friends, however, the move represents an attempt to free himself from the exploitation of his name which has attended his other business ventures. Asked to clarify the matter last week, Radioman Roosevelt stiffly announced: "The Frontier Broadcasting Co. is being wholly...
...place to which admission is charged. This restriction, however, may not help musicians much because few saloons, roadhouses, poolrooms charge admission, or even employ musicians. In the more important matter of sending canned music over the air, the musicians and record men reached an agreement which made radiomen squirm. Under terms not made public last week, broadcasters will have to pay considerably larger fees to use records on programs, the increase presumably to be passed on to the musicians in increased record royalties...
...purposes. This year NBC is devoting a record total of 4,360 hours, 44% of the network's total broadcasting time, to a miscellany of speeches, lectures, concerts, meetings, all labelled "educational programs." Most of these are "sustaining" (non-sponsored) and of widely varying quality. When schoolmen and radiomen met last year at the call of the U. S. Office of Education and the Federal Communications Commission for a conference on educational broadcasting in Washington, upshot was that educators wanted more radio time, networks wanted better programs. This week Counsellor Angell will sit down with Lenox Lohr to learn...
...have definite leanings to the C. I. 0. and Bill Hutcheson hoped to prevent their defection. For Lewis came his lieutenant John Brophy "to explain" C. I. O. not only to the Woodworkers but to the Maritime Federation of the Pacific (which includes not only longshoremen but sailors, engineers, radiomen, cooks, firemen -40,000 strong". In both meetings, held simultaneously in different rooms of Portland's brown brick Labor Temple, diagonally across from the city hall, the fight between C. I. O. and A. F. of L. will be fought out. The outcome may provide an answer...
...with the most elaborate air shows since radio began. In October, campaign radiorators of all political parties used air time as it never had been used before, gave the networks all-time revenue highs for a single month. Last week, before the year closed, Mutual Broadcasting System accomplished what radiomen have long held improbable: a fourth coast-to-coast network...