Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1942)

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Record Details:

Title:
Heinl radio business letter
Date:
July-Dec 1942
Publisher:
Washington D.C. : Robert D. Heinl
Volume:
Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1942)
Leaf #:
00017
Language:
English
Subjects:
Radio -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Periodicals, Television broadcasting -- United States -- Periodicals","Television -- Law and legislation -- United States – Periodicals
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
University of Maryland College Park
Sponsor:
University of Maryland College Park
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A private newsletter published out of Washinton, D.C. Robert D. Heinl meticulously tracked FCC actions and other policy developments and provided frequent updates to subscribers of the newsletter. A fascinating source for seeing how policy developments and regulations were received and interpreted within the commercial broadcasting industry. -- Eric Hoyt, 2018
Date Added:
August 29, 2024
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7/3/42 **The cure; Regulation 3,108 provides in effect simply that stations may fix or alter their own nonnetwork rates without hindrance from the networks, ’’Note that this regulation, like all the others, does not give the Commission any control whatever, direct or indirect, over anybody's rates. As with the other regulations, 3,108 provides merely that control of such matters shall remain where it belongs with the 900 or more station owners all over the country, " XXXXXXXX MORE THAN MILLION RADIOS IN MASSACHUSETTS With 1,044,830 sets in Massachusetts alone, the percent¬ age of radios in the homes, as shown by U. S, Census reports still continues very high. Reports have not been received from about twothirds of the States, The latest heard from are: OCCUPIED D\VELLING UNITS WITH RADIO, FOR STATE AND FOR CITIES OF 25,000 OR MORE: 1940 (A dwelling unit was enumerated as "with radio” if it contained a usable radio set or one only temporarily out of repair) _ Not Area Massachusetts With No Reporting The State Total Radio Radio Radio Total dwelling units (including urban) Rural-nonfann 1,120,694 1,044,830 41,793 34,071 dwelling units Rural fann 94,541 85,934 5,975 2,632 dwelling units 23,720 20.502 2.457 761 Reverly 6,987 6,673 178 136 Bo s ton 197,393 183,927 7,504 5,962 Brocton 18,137 17,014 722 401 Cambridge 28,717 26,771 744 1,202 Chelsea 9, 956 9,188 468 300 Chicopee 10,082 9,594 294 194 Everett 11,763 11,238 177 348 Fall River 29,799 27, 538 1,410 851 Fitchburg 10,951 10,268 506 177 Haverhill 13,193 12,001 826 356 Holyoke 14,716 13,812 457 447 Lawrence 21,987 20,285 1,019 683 Lowell 24,932 22,485 1,491 956 Lynn 27, 602 25,589 970 1,043 Malden 15,365 14,795 314 256 Medford 16,022 15,128 304 590 Melrose 6, 896 6,595 103 198 New Bedford 30, 640 28,060 1,712 868 Newton 17,432 16,574 248 610 (Cities continued)