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The Music Trade Review
JANUARY 26, 1929
Radio Makers Launch National Broadcast Program
Members of the Directorate of the Radio Manufacturers' Association, Assembled at Briarcliffe, N. Y.
M
ANY new and important activities, to aid all branches of the radio industry and the inter-
ests of the radio public, were ordered by the Radio Manufacturers' Association at a two-
day session here at Briarcliffe Lodge, New York, January 11-12. Major H. H. Frost, of
New York, president of the RMA, presided, and virtually all directors attended the week-end
sessions. The principal features of the RMA meeting were:
1. Expansion of the RMA Trade Show at Chicago, (beginning June 3) to include the Black-
stone and Congress Hotels, as well as the
Stevens Hotel, the latter to hold the annual were arranged to begin during the week of
January 21. All of the national chains, includ-
banquet.
2. The RMA actively entered broadcasting by ing the National Broadcasting Co., the Colum-
sponsoring programs weekly, various of its 300 bia and Pacific Coast chains, will carry the pro-
members contributing a special program each grams. The plans are under the immediate di-
rection of B. G. Erskine of Emporium, Pa.,
week, on national chains.
3. Important recommendations for revision of chairman of the RMA Committee on Broadcast-
existing radio laws and regulations, to improve ing. One manufacturer member each week, at
a definite hour to be fixed by each contributing
radio reception, and thus, sales, were made.
4. Extension of patent, export trade develop- company, will arrange a special program to be
ment, engineering, credit and merchandising broadcast under RMA auspices, announced as
sponsored by the RMA through the courtesy of
services for RMA members was ordered.
To the radio industry probably the most im- the contributing member. Different types of
portant and interesting action taken by the programs will be arranged to afford variety, and
RMA Board of Directors was the expansion of a tentative schedule for fourteen weeks of the
the Trade Show at Chicago. Early demand for programs has already been arranged.
space has been so large that in the interest of
Improvement of radio reception received
its membership the RMA decided to take over much attention by the Board of Directors. C.
the Blackstone and Congress Hotel accommoda- C. Colby of Canton, Mass., chairman of the
tions, dividing the Trade Show between the Legislative Committee and former RMA presi-
Stevens and these two additional hotels, and dent, with the help of the Legislative Commit-
hold the big RMA annual banquet in the Stevens tee, its Washington Legislative Counsel, Frank
Hotel ballroom. Arrangements to continue the D. Scott, its general counsel, Judge John W.
public shows in Madison Square Garden, New Van Allen, and with the assistance of most of
York, and the Coliseum, Chicago, in 1930, also the RMA members who responded to a ques-
were concluded by the RMA management with tionnaire giving their advice and information
Herrmann & Irwin.
regarding the new broadcast allocations and
The RMA sponsored broadcast programs their views on radio legislation and regulations
Sales Plans for
ALL
PIANOS
Paul B. Klugh to Europe
"Sales Floor Tested"
-Paul II. Klugh, vice-president and general
manager of the Zenith Radio Corp., Chicago,
accompanied by Mrs. Klugh, sailed for France
last week aboard the S. S. "La France" for a
vacation of about six weeks.
These are like "profit-
bearing" certificates
// interested write or wire
New Cumberland Store
W- W. KIMBALL CO.
Established 1857
306 S. Wabash Ave.
Kimball Building
of the Federal Radio Commission, presented de-
tailed recommendations.
The RMA Board adopted and declared the
general policy that the industry interests and
those of the radio public are identical, sales of
radio apparatus depending on public satisfac-
tion with radio reception. The Board declared
as a fundamental and permanent policy "that
the welfare of the radio manufacturer is repre-
sented in the favorable and healthy interest and
approval of the listening public as a whole, and
that the RMA shall direct its efforts toward
attainment of radio broadcasting and reception
most suitable and satisfactory to the radio
listener throughout the nation."
Establishment at New York headquarters of
the RMA of a merchandising bureau, next
month, it is hoped, was recommended by the
Merchandising Committee, headed by L. E.
Noble of Buffalo, and approved tentatively by
the board. Merchandising services of many
kinds for members and also for radio jobbers
and dealers, including special services and col-
lection of statistics, are planned.
New and valuable measures to extend the
credit and collection service of the RMA were
reported. New branches at Philadelphia and
Boston in the Eastern Division, in addition to
that at New York, have been established.
The RMA patent interchange plan was
ordered forwarded by the Board of Directors,
through Le Roi J. Williams of Cambridge,
Mass., Chairman of the Patent Committee.
Progress toward securing railroad rate reduc-
tions on radio products was reported by Cap-
tain William Sparks of Jackson, Mich., Chair-
man of the RMA Traffic Committee. Several
rate reductions urgently pressed by the Traffic
Committee and the Traffic Bureau, in co-opera-
tion with the Federated Radio Trade Associa-
tion, are expected to materialize shortly.
Three new directors were chosen by the .RMA
Hoard to fill the vacancies, they being: Joseph
L. Ray of New York, general sales manager of
the Radio Corp. of America; B. J. Grigsby of
Chicago, president of the Grigsby-Grunow Co.;
and Allan G. Messick of Chicago, chairman of
the Board of the U. S. Radio and Television
( orp.
CHICAGO
CUMBKKI.ANI), Mn, January 21.—The Cumberland
Music Corp. has been incorporated to open a
music store here at 16 North Centre street.
Musical instruments and other lines will be car-
ried. The capitalization is 2,500 shares of $10
par value. Thomas L. Popp and others are the
incorporators.