Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

New Type Rental Music To
Compete With Wired Music
CHICAGO-A new type of rental music
service has now reached a sta ge so that
business papers are giving national pub-
licity to it. The new service broadcasts
music over tation WJJD, using FM chan-
nel, to ~mall stores, beauty parlors, of-
fices, etc. Service is said to be competitive
to Muzak, a rental service that has com-
peted with automatic phonographs for
high type locations.
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The Seeburg 100-recorCl phonograph:,
coin television, and other new develop-
ments are said to have offered operator
new means to co mpete with the wired
music services. Now, a radio service en ter
the field.
The radio station broadcasts recorded
music and has a stro ng selling talk in
th e FM quality and rates are said to be
one-third to one-half that of wired music
rates. A small office can get a music serv-
ice for as littl e as 13 per month, while
a plant employing 300 to 400 people gets
a rate of $60 a month; minimum Muzak
rate is said to be $47.50 per month for
even th e small est lo ca tion.
Business Week reports that the music
idea is likely to spread, Topeka, Kansa
probably having had th e first station to
offer such music for loca tions.
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S.eeburg Announces "No New
Model" Policy For 1950
CHICAGO-Reflecting its confidence and faith in the future of the auto-
matic music business, 1. P. Seeburg Corp., manufacturers of the famous
Select-D. -Matic 100 ~usic system, has announced its policy to the trade,
embracmg the fo11ow1I1<>' all-important points:
L Elimination of yearly models in the coin -operated phonograph business.
2. Model MlOOA will not be changed in 1950.
3. The same policy will prevail with the 100 selection Wall-O-Matic
Model 3Wl, and the various speaker assemblies which are now available
and identified a Seeburg Scientific Sound Distribution.
4. The policy o~ keepin.g factory production schedul es slightly under the
actual sale. of eqUIpment 111 the field will be continued. Also, Seeburg will
produce shghtl ~ less .tha~ what they are selling and will keep this control
on a 30-day basIs. Tills WIll assure the trade that there will not be excessive
Seebu~g prod~~t~on which operators will have to absorb beyond their normal
operatmg actIVItIes.
5. If an~ when the 45 r.p.m. record becomes a factor to music operators,
Seeburg WIll replace the present 78 r.p .m. Select-O-Matic 100 mechanism
at a nominal cost to the operator. The 78 r.p.m. is si mply unbolted and
removed from the present M 100A cabin et,
and the 45 r.p.m. elect-O-Matic 100 mech-
anism in tailed. Th e en tire cha nge will
require Ie s than five minutes and th e
operator's in vestm e nt will be protected,
not jeopardized.
The Seebu rg Corp. bel ieves tha t the
basIc advantages of th e Select-O-Matic 100
are such th at for th e first time in the
Industry th ey find th e mselves in a position
to do a co nstru ctive music sellin g job to
th e pub li c, and as a result, the necessi ty
for ca bin et changes a nd miscellaneous
non-productive features becomes of less
Phonos On Buses
Up in Winnipeg , Canada, the
Beaver Bus Lines has installed mobile
automatic phonos on its buses.
Speakers are scattered so that each
provides music which can be heard
for two seats only. Phono unit is
wire recorder leaded with 24 selec-
tions which are hawked at two tunes
for five cents. Driver re-winds wire
on phono after 24 tunes are played.
Set-up is the invention of a Winni-
pege~ who has applied for patents.
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This association has saved the operators thousands of dollars
in unfair taxation. Automatic music is a legal. legitimate
business and we shall always fight to keep it so. We are
iil#erested at all times in hearing from other associations in
the nation and exchanging worthwhile ideas and suggestions
with them. Please write.
GEORGE A. MILLER. State Preside",t
128 EAST 14TH STREET. OAKLAND 6, CALIFORNIA
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