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BROADCASTERS’ NEWS BULLETIN
Reporting accurately and promptly current happenings of speciai interest to Broadcasting Stations in the Commerciai, Regulatory, Legislative and Judicial Fields
OFFICERS
alter J. DAMM, . Milwaukee, Wit. President
EDWIN M. SPENCE, Atlantic City, N. 1. Vice President
O. D. FISHER, . Seattle, Wash.
Vice President
PAUL W. MORENCy, Hartford, Conn. Treasurer
Issued by
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS
Incorporated
NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C.
Telephone District 9497
EXECUTIVE PERSONNEL
PHILIP G. LOUCKS Managing Director
EUGENE V. COGLEY Assistant to Managing Director
OLIVINE FORTIER Secretary
June 13, 1931
AT THE CROSS ROADS
A pessimistic picture of broadcasting’s political future was painted byWalter J. Damm, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, and Frank D. Scott, legislative counsel of the Radio Manufacturers’ Association, at the an¬ nual Radio Trade Show at Chicago, Ill. this V7cek.
In speeches before the members of the RMA, both Damm and Scott declared that the lituetion was sufficiently serious to challenge the 'attention of all broad¬ casters and all manufacturers.
Groups seeking facilities are busily at work wooing the support of Sen'stors and Congressmen and their causes are finding s,ympathy among a substantial number of newspapers and magazines which view broadcasting as a steadily growing compet¬ itor of the press, the speakers said. These movements are simoly steps in the direction of government ownership and co-ntrol of all broadcasting, according to the speakers, and they liavo gained monentura more through the deprecation of certain commercial practices than through merit of their individual causes.
Neither broadcasters nor manufacturers realize the seriousness of the situa¬ tion, the speakers argued. Only through effective organization of all branchee of the industry can the situation be adequately met , they said. They further pointed out the seriousness of the attempts by state legislatures to impose re¬ strictions upon the development of radio. One hundred and eleven bills were in¬ troduced in 43 legislatures during the past year but only 10 were passed.
Minn., und Frank M. Ruisell, Washington, D. C. Directors: Willi.n.