Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1943)

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10/15/43 now engaged in international comraunications to the people and the diplomatic, milltaiy, and commercial interests of the United States; (4) the developments and improvements in the art of communication by wire or radio affecting, or which may be expected to affect, such international communications; (5) whether there should be competi¬ tive services between American companies in particular areas or cir¬ cuits in international communications; (6) desirable forms and stand¬ ards of organization of American communication companies, and in particular whether such companies should be permitted or required to merge or consolidate and the general terms, conditions, and obliga¬ tions which should be imposed in the event of such permitted or required merger or consolidation; (7) the form and authority of the regulatory body of the United States to be charged with carrying out the policies in international communications declared by the Congress; and (8) generally to consider and to make recommendations to the Congress as to all other matters and things necessary in its Judg¬ ment in meeting the purposes of the studies herein specifically set forth, ” * xxxxxxxxxx PHILIP H. COHEN NAIffiD OWI RADIO CHIEF Philip H. Cohen, for six years a producer in the radio industry, Thursday was appointed Chief of the Radio Bureau of the Office of War Information, succeeding Donald Stauffer who resigned recently, fir. Cohen previously was Deputy Chief and has been with the Ra.dio Bureau since it was created in 1941, Mr, Cohen will handle all requests by Government agencies and officials for unsponsored radio time, OWI said, and will sched¬ ule and allocate the time made available by radio stations for Government information programs. XXXXXXXXX NBC OFFICIALS ON WORLD TRIP; EYEING RUSSIA Niles Trammell, President of the National Broadcasting Com¬ pany, and John F. Royal, Vice-President in Charge of International Relations, have arrived in England to make plans for re-opening NBC offices in the occupied countries as quickly as these countries are freed by the Allied armies* England is the first stop on the executives’ tour. From there the itinerary calls for stops in Algiers, Cairo and other points in the Middle East. One of the principal objectives of the tour will be to study the possibility of increasing the schedule of broadcasts from the Soviet Union over NBC facilities. Not only do Messrs. Trammell and Royal hope to complete arrangements for international broadcasting on a hitherto unpre¬ cedented scale, but they also plan to set up the framework by which NBC will bring its listeners the deliberations of any international meetings or conferences held abroad, XXXXXXXX 8