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Direct radio service with China, under joint American— Chinese ownership, will be opened within the next few months, according to a report from Shanghai received by the Department of Commerce.
The transmitting station at Chengju. seven miles from Shanghai, is expected to begin operation in the Fall and will inaug¬ urate a direct service between Changhai and San Francisco.
Eighty-five per cent of the total exhibition space in the Radio World's Fair, Madison Square Carden, Sept. 22-27, has been contracted for.
The National Association of Radio Associations intends to tie in with the Radio World’s Fair through the establishment of National Radio Demonstration Week. Cooperating with the Association are dealer and distributor groups in many cities from coast to coast.
The Chicago Radio Show, which follows the Radio World’s Fair, on October 20-26, is reported to be 84 per cent sold by C. Clayton Irwin, Jr., General Manager of both expositions.
Commissioner Harold A. Lafount recently spent a day inspecting the central monitoring station at Grand Island, Nebraska.
The new three-year "Amos ’n’ Andy" contract is described by Variety as follows:
"Both parties agreed to use no lawyers. Instead NBC told Amos *n* Andy to state just what they wanted, which was written into the agreement, with both sides dropping entirely the business element.
"Agreement calls for a raise every six months, with the team promising not to plug any other commodity than the toothpaste they are now advertising. Actual amount of each raise is not known but $50,000 is named as the probable first raise. This sum was handed the boys at NBC at the expiration of their old contract simply as a friendly gesture. "