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He ini Radio News Service
7/24/46
RADIO SET FIGURES OVER PREWAR FIGURE BUT STILL UNDER CAPACITY
In its first release of production statistics since VJDay, the Radio Manufacturers* Association reports that radio receiv¬ er production in June passed the industry’s prewar monthly average, although it is still far short of capacity.
The RMA report, covering production of all major set manufacturers in the United States, showed a combined output by RMA member-companies of 1,052,597 radio sets of all types during last month. As this total does not include a number of newcomers in the radio industry, the month’s entire production exceeded the prewar monthly average of 1,100,000 sets in 1941, the last full year of civilian production before the war.
FM set production, while still proportionally small, is gaining steadily, the RMA states, and reached 17,273 units in June. Continued shortage of wood cabinets for console-type receivers was cited by the RMA as largely responsible for the lack of production in this field.
Complete figures on Januarythro ughJune radio set pro¬ duction were not available but RMA estimates that in this period approximately 5,500,000 sets were manufactured. In June production, the report stated, over 750,000 of the sets produced were table models and automobile radios numbered about 60,000.
Television set production, RMA reports indicated, has been limited largely to show models with only about 200 reported for the first half year. Several manufacturers, however, have announced plans for sizeable production in the early Fall and Winter.
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RADIO RECEIVERS NOT INCLUDED IN CPA INVENTORY ORDER
Radios were not included in a list of 18 f inished pro¬ ducts upon which the CAP recently limited manufacturers* inventories in order to assure a steady flow of new production of some scarce household appliances.
CPA officials, it was reported, have told radio manufact¬ urers that the new regulations for ’’all practical purposes do not affect the radio and electronics industry”. Technically, it was explained, radio manufactured products could fall under "miscellaneous electrical appliances", one of the 27 categories on which in¬ ventory controls have been tightened, CPA officials feel that the radio industry is too highly competitive to feel any effects from the new order,
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