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...square-jawed French Premier returned hot from an inspection of French lines to broadcast: "I am not the leader of fanatic masses. I am charged with direction of a nation of free men. . . . They know why they are fighting. They are fighting because Germany has forced war on us, because for the last three years the devouring German ambition has not left Europe a single secure...
These news broadcasts are entirely separate from Harvard's weekly general programs, broadcast in English and also over WRUL
While repentant WMCA was still standing in the corner, NBC last week also had a transgression to worry over. It had broadcast word of the departure (also blazoned in the press) of the French liner "Champlain, and had sent the news out over international short-wave in several languages, including one which might be understood by any submariner now in business. At week's end the Champlain was reported to have reached an unrevealed haven, and NBC mightily relieved, resolved henceforth to keep such marine intelligence off the air entirely, regardless of how the press treated...
...Every effort consistent with the news itself is to be made to avoid horror, suspense and undue excitement. . . . For example, news of air-raid alarms should not be broadcast until we actually learn whether or not there has been an air raid...
...radio industry's present five-year contract with ASCAP expires in December 1940, but for the last three years broadcasters have been girding for a great fight to break ASCAP's hold on U, S. music. Last week in Chicago, NAB got in a showy bit of brandishing, by voting to organize something to be called Broadcast Music, Inc. Subject to SEC requirements, stock will be sold to broadcasters up to one-half their 1937 payments to ASCAP. In 1937 ASCAP collected $3,878,000 from radio; last year, $3,845,000. Announced purpose of Broadcast Music...