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-5- SAME TUNE-NEV: V.ORDS ’’Let The Benton elephant get his snout under the radio tent and you’ve given the government-ownership proponents their greatest impetus", wails BROADCASTING (March 31) in decrying Assistant Secretary of State Benton’s plan for establishing governmentally owned short-wave stations for international broadcasting. "Can’t the government buy time on privately-owned stations?" it asks. If American radio today was all it purports to be it need have no such fears such as these outcrys betray. THE RUMOR MILL It is touching the way "The Industry" worries about radio abroad-as reflected in these (Variety March 26) reports; "Belief here(Sidney) is that the government controlled Australian Broadcasting Corporation will drop its BBC style of thinking this year and cater to the trade via the commercial route". "Johannesburg, March 15-The commercial broadcasting picture in the Union of South Africa remains confused. Although reports had it that commercial broadcasting would start here on January 1, and date v>ras later put forward to June 1,-belief is there'll be—-no commercial broadcasting at least until ’4B." The customary BBC rumors are conspicuous by their absence this month. HITS AND MISSES The Attorney General’s Conference on Juvenile Delinquency will meet in Nev; York this spring, and a special radio panel Y/ill report on its work in building anti¬ crime programs for juveniles. (Variety, March 26). Toronto newspapers have run ads for Station CHUM offering to pay $500 to listeners who telephone in details on any ne¥/s happening they have witnessed. Who scoops whom? Tavern operators in New York are divided on the values of television receivers in their establishments. Some say the pictures attii’act viewers who crowd out their regular customersj yet fail to buy. Others say certain types of video programs increase the quaffing. Zenith Radio, which has operated its own FM stotion on a non-commercial basis for a number, of years, polled its listeners to get their opinions on the station going commercial. Some 7,000 letters v/ere received-and 90 per cent indicated that they preferred their FM without commercial sponsorship. Is American radio jittery? The old doctor diagnosed, it as acute Hooper- sensitivity. General Electric in offering a "pee-wee" transmitter to educational broadcasters says that it has "the added merit of cutting the coverage of non-commercial FM stations to a point where they won’t be competing v/ith commercial broadcasters-" Now, that really is a service to educationl .(Variety, March 12, 1947) HITS & MISSES MISSED BILLBOARD . erry Franken of BILLBOARD reminds ye Ed. that confession is good for the soul— as the March NEWS-LETTER stated. So ’tiz-and we confess that the soap-opera quip in that issue should have been credited to "BILLBOARD"-THE VORLD’S FOREMOST AMUSEMENT TEEKLY-25 CENTS" (How’s that for a plug, Jerry?) So, we give credit where it is due-to a sheet we all enjoy reading.