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Heinl Radio News Service
8/20/47
"Locals of the American Federation of Musicians are ready and willing to negotiate wage scales and conditions for FM broadcasting. At the present time there are a number of FM sta¬ tions employing musicians and it would not be sound policy for the federation to eliminate this employment and potential employ¬ ment in other stations by agreeing to service both AM and FM simultaneously.
"The Federation does not insist that FM stations employ musicians but if they do need musicians locals will be ready and willing to negotiate contracts. This would give the FM stations the benefit of live music, and also give the public the chance to hear FM, and in return, musicians will have employment opportuni¬ ties. "
Mr. Petrillo predicted that the number of FM stations, now 204, would be increased to 3,000 in eighteen months. There are 1,320 licensed AM stations. Almost 3,000 network and AM station musicians are now drawing annual salaries of almost $23,000,000, he said. No figures were available on the number of musicians working at FM stations.
At this writing no comment had been forthcoming from the networks but President Miller of NAB declared that Petrillo* s action would mean a continuation of the FM stalemate.
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DAWSON IS NEW NAB ASSISTANT INFORMATION DIRECTOR
James Dawson, newspaper and radio news editor, has been named assistant director of information of the National Association of Broadcasters. At present Mr. Dawson is news editor and director of programs at WFBC, Greenville, S. C., a position he has held since release from active duty as a naval reserve officer. His four years in the Navy included three years of duty as a combat intelligence officer in the Pacific, beginning in the Solomons and continuing through the final Third Fleet campaign off the coast of Japan.
Prior to the war, Mr. Dawson operated his own advertis¬ ing agency, Dawson, Inc., in Greenville, having previously served as managing editor of the Augusta, (Ga.) Chronicle . He began his newspaper career as a member of the Greenville Piedmont editorial staff, and was subsequently associate managing editor of the S. C. Newsview. Mr. Dawson was born in New Bern, North Carolina in 1910 and is the son of James B. Dawson, well-known North Carolina newspaper publisher.
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