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4/29/38
FTC PLACES BAI^ ON TELEVISION INSTITUTE
Prohibiting certain unfair methods of competition in the sale of correspondence courses of study in radio and tele¬ vision, and in the sale of equipment for radio and television, an order has been entered by the Federal Trade Commission against American Television Institute, Inc. , 433 East Erie St. , Chicago, and its officers, U. A. Sanabria, R. B. Fullerton and A. H. Zamotany.
Under the order the respondents are barred from repre¬ senting in advertisements inserted in classified advertising pages ^f newspapers and magazines, under such headings as ’’Help Wanted or ’^Men Wanted”, that employment will be offered to persons who answer such advertisements.
The order prohibits the respondents from making other representations, including the following.
That they select and train a limited number of per¬ sons for positions in radio television and that students are trained at the respondents' expense; that they operate a wide¬ spread employment agency or that students are placed in paying positions upon graduation; that they operate radio television broadcasting stations and that there is a shortage of re^dio tele¬ vision operators; that their place of business is larger or that they have greater business facilities tha,n actually is the case, and that any of the respondents or their agents or employees are engineers of television broadcasting stations,
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WEEKLY INDUSTRY STATISTICS TO AVOID RADIO DUMPING
Prevention of over-production of receiving sets is the major object of a plan adopted by the Board of Directors of the Radio Manufacturers’ Association at its New York meeting to pro¬ vide for exchange between members of weekly production and inven¬ tory statistics. It will be instituted as soon as possible.
The statistics project was planned by a special com¬ mittee of which Henry C. Bonfig, of Camden, N. J, , is Chairman, and including James M. Skinner, of Philadelphia; James S. Knowlson, of Chicago, ajid S. T. Thompson, of Long Island City, N.Y.
Weekly statistics will be gathered, covering factory production periods from Saturday morning through each Friday ni^t, inclus¬ ive. ^ The statistics will include figures on weekly sales to retailers; wholesalers and branch inventory; factory finished goods inventory, and factorh shipments to wholesalers and whole¬ sale branches, together with total factory cabinet commitments.
Manufacturers will be enabled to check their production with the market requirements more closely and avoid merchandis¬ ing difficulties, including "dumping”, which have occurred in former years.
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