Radio Digest (Oct 1923-July 1924)

1 RADIO DIGEST — Illustrated February 9, 192S 1 ^REVENUE GRAB "MUSIC TRUST" AIM TIN PAN ALLEY BUNCH TO SUE MANY STATIONS Shall American Society of "Composers" Eke Income from Broadcasters? Case in Court Now (Continued from page -) is made of coins, according to recent data, in considerably less than a year, total more than $500,000. Research conducted during the last few months by broadcasters individually and as a national organisation shows that, in the instance of a popular Radiophan contest under the auspices of Stations KYW, W'jAZ and WDAP, Chicago, during a iod of less than 12 days, more than 13,170,500 men, women and children heard the terms of the competition, that more than 240,000 answers were received and that the greatest number of these preferred "jazz" or "popular" music, showing how large was the audience which the organised publishers might have reached. Tests Show Radio Aids Music Sales Further investigation revealed that the local and mail order sheet music sales of the Knight, Campbell company, Denver, Colo., were greatly increased by being broadcast by Station KFDL of that city. An "independent" sheet music publisher in New York City reported that Radio had raised the volume of his sales of one song to 25,000 in a short time. Another publisher in the same city, rather a partnership of publishers, told how, by means of Radio, Station WHN, they had received 5,000 suggestions as to a title for a song which "Tin Pan Alley," habitat of composers and authors, had failed to name appropriately. It became known that some of the music publishers paid as much as $10,000 a year for "plugging" the sales of one of their songs. Bartman and Rosenthal Lie? The question re-opened by the suit against the Board of Trade brought into conferences during 1922 and 1923, in Chicago and New York, representatives of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and the broadcasters. Delegates from the American Telephone and Telegraph company, Radio Corporation of America, General Electric, Westinghouse, and the United States depart ment of commerce attended the meeting in New York City. The assembly in that city ended in a deadlock. One of the meetings ended in an agreement to file a test suit in the federal courts. During one of the later conferences in Chicago Hartman, attorney for the organized publishers (and composers and authors), and J. C. M. Rosenthal, their general manager, were asked to withdraw because, it is alleged, of a deliberate misstatement. Broadcasters Oppose Tactics of Society A Questionnaire under the auspices of the Drake hotel, Chicago, and Radio Digest showed that most if not all the broadcasters of the United States opposed the tactics of the society and favored the use of "independent" music. The National Association of Broadcasters, of which Paul Klugh was and is executive chairman, headquarters New York City, established a bureau for the cultivation of "independent" music. The Chicago Daily News, Station WMAQ, aided the association considerably in that respect. Methods of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, as applied by some of its representatives, were condemned by broadcasters and thousands of listeners in. Is Fight of Millions of Listeners Xn The repeated declaration by members of the society's legal staff that Station WEAP, American Telephone and Telegraph company, New York City, had become a licensee was afterward proved a misstatement as was a similar assertion during the trial of the suit against Station WOR in Newark. It is reported that some of the members of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers on several occasions came over to the Drake station and attempted to get WDAP to broadcast their numbers by issuing a written "release." These members had no right to do this, it is obvious, considering the stand of the Society, and their attempts can only be credited, it is believed, to internal dissension or an organized effort to "frame" WDAP. The fight of the National Association of Broadcasters, of its individual members, to retain the right to the freedom of the air, the right to place on it what they wish excepting that which conflicts with present Radio regulations, has become, it is said, the fight of millions of listeners in throughout the United States. On the outcome of the suit filed against the Chicago Board of Trade depends in a sense, it is predicted, the life of broadcasting in this country. FleweUing SOCKETS $l.GO PARTS The names Dresden, Rembrandt and Sterling mean a lot when you are buying china, art and silver. But 'when Radio is considered, the name FleweUing is paramount. The careful buyer has learned that iS it is a "genuine" FleweUing part it is right! E. T. FleweUing wiU not allow his name to be placed on a part that has not passed both laboratory and practical use tests. 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