Radio: Mutual Walks Out

The all-industry National Association of Broadcasters met last week in its 19th annual convention at St. Louis' Jefferson Hotel. And before the week was out radio was decisively split into two rival segments —big NBC and CBS opposed by Mutual Broadcasting System. Mutual had endorsed the Federal Communications Commission's sweeping antimonopoly decrees (TIME, May 12) and cracked the solid network front by signing a sudden armistice with ASCAP.

When N.A.B.'s board met Mutual's challenge by endorsing everything President Neville Miller had said about FCC and Mutual's treaty with ASCAP, Mutual's three principal...

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