Word: networks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However radio broadcasting may stack up among the arts, it is no slouch as a business. Last week the Federal Communications Commission, after looking at the records of the 660 active U. S. commercial broadcasting stations and the three major networks which feed 350 of them, revealed how radio stood in 1938. Its plant value and investment totaled $1,068,339,901. Total revenues (time sales, talent placing, rental of network facilities, etc.) were $111,358,378. Broadcasting expenses (talent costs, advertising, promotion, administration, etc.) were $92,503,594. Net income from broadcasting in 1938: $18,854,784, 17% less...
...disquieting statistics. Of the 660 stations in business, 419 made money, one broke even, and 240 were in the red. Of the luckless 240, 175 were "teakettle" stations doing a time-sales business of less than $25,000 a year, most of them low-wattage local stations. The 350 network-affiliated stations as a group had 77% of the industry's revenue...
...clubs in the U. S. network of organized baseball, eleven are Canadian...
...utilities tycoon who built the building and later went to Leavenworth from which he was paroled two years ago. Last week the Minneapolis Journal gave them something to stare at besides that big FOSHAY. Using the invention of another local prodigy, Louis L. Rustad, the Journal strung a network of neon tubing around the top of the Foshay Tower, began displaying "sky flashes" of the latest news in six-foot-high running messages...
...Government has ever done. For expected sponsors the census showed a potential audience of some 25,000, with a per capita buying power five times that of the average U. S. consumer and very little else to do evenings but listen to a radio. Expecting a short-wave network connection with some U. S. chain, KFAR nevertheless intends to broadcast home-made programs for Alaska's own needs. It will announce airplane arrivals and departures to a people who fly 17 times as much per capita as their fellow citizens in the States. It hopes to teach the sourdough...