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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...Entertainment, therefore, and particularly musical entertainment, is Radio Corp.'s forte. Last week it went further into music. National Broadcasting Co. announced that with music publishers Leo Feist, Inc. and Carl Fischer it had formed a new publishing house: Radio Music Corp., capitalized at $6,600,000. NBC owns one-third of the capital stock. RKO Productions, Inc. therefore, like every other important cinema company, will have its own music publishers. And Radio Corp. will now be financially interested in practically every phase of public entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Back to Melody | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...music writer. Confidently last week cinemen predicted that RKO Productions, Inc. would soon produce a sound movie with a Wayne theme song. And, they pointed out, royalties from the sale of copies and records would go not only to Fischer and Feist but also to Radio Corp.'s NBC (actually Radio Corp. owns 50% of NBC, General Electric owns 30%, Westinghouse owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Back to Melody | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Alley by such connoisseurs as Feist's Edgar Bitner. Anybody who has written a musical composition may submit it. To ensure unprejudiced judgments the board will be kept in ignorance of the composer's name. If a composition is accepted, Radio Music Co. will publish it, NBC will broadcast it, RKO Productions perhaps may make of it a theme song, Radio-Victor will make records of it. But in all cases Radio Corp. of America will profit thereby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Back to Melody | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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