Heinl radio business letter (Jan-June 1946)

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He ini Radio News Service 6/12/46 are symptomatic of the beginning of the final stages of the union’s prolonged fight against * canned music*. "Primarily, Mr. Petrillo is not thinking in terns of such petty matters as wages, hours and working conditions, typical of the usual negotiations with employers. His targets are the radio and recording industries as a whole and the larger share in their pro¬ fits to which he believes musicians are entitled. The stakes are literally millions of dollars a year and, if Mr. Petrillo achieves his aim, would represent the first successful resistance to the consequences of technological advance. * * * "Mr. Petrillo himself told the delegates at one point, •you have too much red blood in your veins to say to Petrillo, "sit there and die. "* "The delegates agreed in a burst of applause which may echo in radio, in music, and in Congress, for a long time." XXXXXXXX BENDIX RADIO TO PRODUCE COLOR TELEVISION RECEIVERS The Bendix Radio Division has taken a license to produce color television receivers under patents of the Columbia Broadcast* ing System, it was announced today (Wednesday, June 12th) by Charles Marcus, Bendix Aviation Corporation, Vice-President in charge of Engineering. Immediate plans call also for the establishment of an experimental color television transmitter at the research and engi¬ neering laboratories of the main Bendix Radio plant in Baltimore, Maryland, said Mr. Marcus. Television development and research will go forward on an extensive scale to permit the manufacturing of television receivers for the home. This will augment the com¬ plete line of AM and FM radios and radio-phonographs now in produc¬ tion in the Baltimore and Pomona, California, Bendix Radio plants. xxxxxxxxx CONFIRMATION OF COM. WALKER DELAYED; NO OPPOSITION SEEN The confirmation of the nomination of Paul A. Walker, Oklahoma Democrat, to another seven year term on the Federal Com¬ munications Commission, which was sent to the Senate by President Truman about a month ago, is still pending before the Senate Inter¬ state Commerce Committee. No opposition has been raised against Commissioner Walker’s appointment as far as known. It was said at the Committee that the delay was due to press of other matters but that it wa.s certain action would be taken before Mr. expires June 30th. xxxxxxxxxx Walker’s term 10