San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-23
|RAD|O INDUSTRY
is WE'D IN
THREE-WAY WAR
Controversy Threatens
Hearth Entertainment
of Can" F.
INDUSTRY IN INFANCY
Big Companies Just Start
ing Fight to Control
Advance Posts.
INDUSTRY In INFANCY

New York, March 22.-Thc air Is
buzzing with charges of radio mo
ropoly and flashes of discord are sizz.
ling of the entire industry.
The man with the one way set. the
average radio fan. realizes that his
pew-found entertainment beside the
hearth is threatened and is "listen-
ing in" intently.
A three-way fight is under way in
the radio field.
The attempt of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company, for n
monopoly of the air, claiming basic
radio patents; the efforts of broad
casters to finance their expenses by
charging the consumers directly or in
directly, and the battle between the
National Broadcasting Association aud
the Music Publishers Association
over the use of copyrighted music ON
the radio.
With the radio business in its
habyhood and billion dollar industry
on the horizon. the four big radio
companies are just beginning battle
| royal for occupation of advance posts
| in this Iavelorpoont
The contest for tho sunremocv of
the air will be between the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company
the Radio Corporation of America,
the Westinghouse Electric Company
and the General Electric Company.
Agreements were entered into in
1919. 1920 and 1921 by these four big
companies for the purpose Of doing
each other for ALLEGED INFRINGEMENT of
| N, torte
Tho folIovino riybts MORO dis.
tr;hnted
Tho Auor;cor To,arho,o o,d Tale.
graph. with the Western Electric Com.
1any ;.s suhs;J;.r,, oht,;nad tha I'll
;Ingo 90 ssii;nn broodoost;nr ' t ,ms p
tine se,s and ,ha excIus;r. r;nht ~
bros.dcost COW eli ond nso ray;n in,
yent;ons oroired fron, toianboma nat.
onts N -''A' -''"o POI
e"''' phono C,,r,,,v pro,;.,
Tho Radio Cornpraf;on rooo;rsd Tho
r;.ht sauto o m"tpo .. tYee, t; ,nJ
atba. - I;s.on az oan,,;na'
t;an .to os es." Iii 'a a az .ou,. nI,,a;uo
WIGHT 70 SeIl an,atc,,r rod;o roco;r;, :
annorotrs which wos 70 ho monrfac,'
tnrod nv conara, Eiootp;c ona Wast.
;neborSss 90 nor oant and Al 1u nor " con,
rnsnsoteoI ng ho cent ana ~ per eeot cav
the b;r slice Of the mannfactnr;ny'
becorso ot -, ,ontro, &c ,oaiar;,v
stooL ~ tho rad;o anru.,;a "'o't'
Tho ~ n, -. 80, 49, ~: ~ @ 49,. -,
,ba A r,or;oor Toionbpono anJ T,oic.
s ,ro m.h;oh /, ; ta pi, anu ue, .a
ebarno, San h.a us ns uoe sni ~
~ -, lor p.onu ,.; amu I,s risnt
was use sitt;uS IN nrotty f nas;t;nns Wiz
. "dI siLe'lhg IN pretty posi'ion u es-
''y Pmt nUnppIiy: =, ,5
a, ~ ~ IN. NV. ueae,opun.n. III oroau
VS. n nus uGs'aU;eu thg auyah'ase VI
WI wiz ,r naiInJpois enIofTru py the 1ineti-
o oan eie ,,itp anu neiesrapn. proan'
oob;osd "i.n .S WI; WIS Was reeentls
a aSmieseu a. tne uinaeT OF tne Massa-
1 ~ INSTITUTE OF iechnoiosy mere.
T 10 MAINTAIN us noIu tne american
!; reiepnune anu leiegrapn mas 10 prove
In eourt that its vacuum TUBE, mouu-
iat9r ana aihpiiiler patents are paste
anu cahnot DC used WITHOUT license
rom I'm .hem. A.
nus cane tne suit lew uays
uEo against station WIN Tor oper-
htlng progressing station contain
i,ns lnese oasic parents Mithout
tr-
shd Telegraph;
~ rureiy rest Suit.
The WIN" suit Is purely a test
case ana IL won VIII mark tri-
umph over the three companies with
which the American Telephone and
Telegraph is now IN agreement as well
as against the 4oO independent broad
casters, who did not buy their sta
tons from the American Telephone
and Telegraph and have no license
from It.
IL the telephone company succeeds
IN monopolizing the wireless as they
have the wire field. federal interior
nee or supervision is inevitable. Sec.
retary Hoover OF the Department OF
commerce, holds club in his power
to grant or withhold licenses to all
6roadcasting operators. At the radio
investigation before the federal CON-
mission to open April 10. further gov
ernmental supervision may evolve.
| The second big fight in the indus
try revolyes around the desire to pay
| Droadcasting performers in other coin
than publicity. The organization of
radio music fund committee. headed
| BY Clarence III. Mackey. and Felix
| Nj. Warburg. TO secure voluntary con-