Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1942)

12/11/42 OWI PLANS S.^ilALL STATION INQUIRY Gardner Cowles, Director of Domestic Operations for the Office of War Information, said Wednesday that the Government was preparing to Investigate the plight of smaller non-network radio stations which have lost most of their sponsored programs since the outbreak of the war. Mr, Cowles said he understood that only the smaller sta¬ tions in the Rocky Mountain area have run into financial difficul¬ ties, but that his study would not be confined to that section of the country. ”1 do not know how serious the situation is nor how wide¬ spread”, he said. ”We are on the verge of making a fact-finding investigation to find out which stations are suffering and whether it is national, regional or local advertising that has shrunk, ” XXXXXXXX ALL SET FDR A. T. & T, PROBE DEG. 16 Usually in such matters, there are several postponements, but there is every indication that the A. T. & T. Long Lines hear¬ ings, including the costs of tolls to broadcasting stations, will begin Wednesday, December 16th, as scheduled. They will be held in Hearing Room "B” of the Interstate Commerce Commission and a record crowd is expected. XXXXXXXXX CONDEMNS CANADIAN RADIO MONOPOLY Fbscism in Canada ”is here to stay” unless the Canadian Government's monopoly over radio is broken, Arthur Melghen, retiring leader of the Conservative party said in Winnipeg Wednesday, Mr. Meighen' 8 attack against the government-controlled Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, was based upon the corporation's refusal to broadcast convention speeches. He said that CBS uses its network to broadcast its own propaganda, and added, ’•parlia¬ mentary government in this Dominion is but a memory”, XXXXXXXX 9