Radio Broadcast (May 1929-Apr 1930)

NEWS 1 RCA-RADIOTRON COMPANY ORGANIZED New Company Will Take Over the Development and Manufacture of Vacuum Tubes for RCA-Victor Company Manufacturing, engineering, research, and merchandising of RCA Radiotrons are now centered in a new corporation, a subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America. It is called the RCA-Radiotron Company, Inc., and is headed by T. W. Freeh as president. Mr. Freeh was formerly a vice president of General Electric. Ownership of the company, it is reported, will be divided as follows: Radio Corporation of America, 50 per cent., General Electric, 30 per cent., and Westinghouse, 20 per cent. Radiotron manufacture, it is said, will continue in the same plants as at present. Tubes in the past have been manufactured in various General Electric and Westinghouse plants with a large part of the production concentrated in the Harrison, Newark, and Bloomfield factories. The official announcement follows: "As a reorganization of a part of the vacuum tube activities of the Radio Corporation of America, General Electric, and Westinghouse, a new company will be formed to be known as the RCA-Radiotron Company, Inc. Beginning with Jem. 1, 1930, the new company will carry on research activities, as well as the engineering, manufacturing, and selling activities in connection with vacuum tubes for use in radio receiving sets in the home entertainment field, now sold by the Radio Corporation of America and manufactured by the General Electric and Westinghouse Companies. "The new RCA-Radiotron Company, Inc., will continue to receive full benefit, in its field, of the broad research facilities of the General Electric and Westinghouse Companies. The unification of vacuum tube development, manufacture, and sale in the new company will undoubtedly enable it to meet fully and effectively the responsibility of leadership which rests upon the founders of the radio industry in America. It will mean greater flexibility of manufacturing and closer responsiveness to the changing needs of the public and of the merchandising situation. It will make possible added economy in merchandising and manufacturing and will accelerate the commercial development of the great technical advances assured by the closer cooperation of the companies. "The president of the RCA-Radiotron Company will be T. W. Freeh, now a vice president of the General Electric Company." "The formation of the RCA-Radiotron Company will in no way affect the present or future plansot E.T. Cunningham, Inc.," said George K. Throckmorton, executive vice president of Cunningham to Radio Broadcast. The organization of the subsidiary tube Photo courtesy United States Lines Every day radio is proving of even greater aid to men in the business world. Now it is possible to cross the Atlantic on the Leviathan and at the same time be in constant contact with the latest financial news and a stock broker. The above picture shows the mid-Atlantic brokerage office of M. J. Meehan & Co., New York City sales and manufacturing company by RCA follows closely on the organization of the RCA-Victor Company, also a subsidiary of RCA. The latter company will concentrate sales, engineering, research, and manufacturing in the Camden, New Jersey, plant, acquired from the Victor Talking Machine Company on its merger with RCA more than a year ago. Other subsidiaries of RCA, which is now purely a holding company, are: RCA-Communications, Inc. (national and international communication); Radio Marine Corporation (ship to shore communication) ; RCA-Photophone (sales and service, sound motion pictures); National Broadcasting Company (broadcast stations, network service, artists' bureau), Radio Music Company (including Carl Fisher, Inc., Leo Feist, Inc.). Of the above, RCA Communications and Radio Marine Corporation are wholly owned by RCA. RCA also has forty-nine per cent, stock ownership of the new General Motors Radio Corporation. Majestic Has Railroad Dept. A railroad department has been organized under R. L. Maurer of Majestic. Sets are now installed in more than sixty of the nation's finest trains, according to the company. Frank A. Delano is head of the Majestic sales school now in regular session in Room 2500, Stevens Hotel, Chicago. The course lasts five days. Majestic's Voice of the Air, a rotogravure news-picture publication for general public distribution, reached a circulation late in 1929 on issue number 11 of 2,500,000 copies. 234 Contract for Radio Receptor A Powerizer sound system will be installed in the United States Veterans' Hospital at Little Rock, Arkansas. The installation will include radio, phonograph pick-up, power amplifiers, loud speaker, and head phones. Centralized receiving sets will deliver programs to a central amplifying system. • FEBRUARY 1 930 • The 1930 Census When the 1930 census is completely tabulated there will be definite figures on the number of radio sets in use throughout the United States. This was definitely settled early in December when William M. Stewart, director of the census, announced, among other additional questions, the inclusion of the following question: No. 4. Radio Set? Yes No Airplane Radio More than 100 airplanes have been equipped with radio apparatus during the last year according to W. D. Terrell, chief of the Radio Division, Department of Commerce. Permits have been granted to 44 air ports for the installation of radio transmitters. a$