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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
After the political conventions, M. B. S. in rapid succession added more than a dozen stations to its network in New England and the Midwest, reached into the South. Most important, the Don Lee Broadcasting System of California decided to sever relations with C. B. S. and join. M. B. S. This switch, effected last week, raised Mutual's station list...
Oldest network on the Coast, Don Lee Broadcasting System has four major stations (KHJ, Los Angeles; KFRC, San Francisco; KGB, San Diego; KDB, Santa Barbara), just became associated with six smaller ones. The late Don Lee, a successful automobile distributor, bought his first station in 1926, founded the chain in 1928. The system began television experimenting in 1931, now televises nightly over W6XAO, once a week with synchronized sound from KHJ. President of Don Lee Broadcasting System since his father died in 1934 has been Thomas Stewart Lee, 30, a favorite in Hollywood cinema circles and a shrewd manager...
...hookup with Mutual meant Columbia had to have new California stations. They bought the State's most powerful independent station, KNX at Hollywood (50,000 watts), also KFSO at San Francisco, which this week will be added to the C. B. S. chain. N. B. C., not caught napping, went after four stations owned by the McClatchy newspapers...
Although growing rapidly, Mutual Broadcasting System still has a long way to go to match the older chains if it wants to. Without all of the new station alignments reflecting in its income, M. B. S. reported gross program billings of $1,794,000 for the first eleven months of 1936 as compared with $1,117,000 for the same period last year, a 60% increase. Columbia's program revenues for the same period were $20,788,000, comparing with $15,751,000, a 32% increase. N. B. C. reported an eleven-month figure...