![]() will combine its notable achievements in the talking machine field with the Radiola sets developed by the Radio Corp. Under this contract the Victor Talking Machine Co. has adopted the Radiola super-heterodyne for its combination talking-machine radio sets, the considerable extension of service to the public, which this contract assures is the phase of the matter that gives me the most satisfaction. "While it is quite natural that we should be gratified that the Victor Talking Machine Co. of America welcomes into the radio industry another great factor of public service. into the radio field and declared that there were two leading talking machine companies with their banners "now unfurled in the radio field." He said: "The Radio Corp. of America, in speaking for his company, welcomed the Victor Co. A first requisite is that artists will be willing to co-operate and co-operate at such compensation as may be commercially practicable." David Sarnoff's Statement for RCA David Sarnoff, vice-president and general manager of the Radio Corp. "It is not our intention to withhold great voices or great artists from the air," he said, "but this phase of the situation is not without difficulties. plans to take a part in actual broadcasting. "On the other hand a great speech, sermon or football game have their highest interest at the moment of their giving. That is the part played by the talking machine. One may hear the most excellent performances on the radio but he may never hear the same program again by the same artists under the same conditions. To take an obvious example, when one hears a remarkably fine performance through the phonograph he may repeat it as often as he pleases-the same artist, the same song, the same quality. "Similarly there are services which radio performs and the talking machine does not. "There are two services which the talking machine performs which radio does not," Mr. of America, the Victor Talking Machine Co., this Fall, will market Victrola instruments combined with the newest and most highly developed super-heterodyne receive set which can be manufactured under the Radio Corp.'s patents. Paine said that by special arrangement and in collaboration with the Radio Corp. Paine, counsel for the company, who after a brief introduction by Mr. Dingley, assistant sales manager and J.G. Dolbeer, sales manager Ernest John, advertising manager E.J. Atkinson, director of power building, etc. Mallory, manager of the radio department. production manager of the radio department of the General Electric Co., and General Guy Tripp, chairman of the Board of Westinghouse Electric & Engineering Co., together with E.H. Edwards, manager of the radio department, and Adam Stein, Jr. Bucher, general sales manager and a number of other officials of the same company E.T. Johnson, president, presided at the dinner and the guests included David Sarnoff, vice-president and general manager of the Radio Corp. Johnson, vice-president of the Victor Co., and son of Eldridge R. and the Radio Corporation was made at a dinner to the press at the Hotel Pennsylvania on May 19, attended by many notables in the radio field as well as a number of Victor Co. Executives Met at Dinner The formal announcement of the new arrangements between the Victor Co. finally decided to install the RCA equipment, embodying such improvements as are promised in that direction affords recognition of the standing of the Radio Corporation's products in the radio field and at the same time gives to the Victor dealers throughout the country something definite on which to base their merchandising plans for the future. was going to do and not going to do in the matter of entering the radio field, it being hinted that when announcement was forthcoming it would be of revolutionary character. There had been for months a flood of rumors concerning what the Victor Co. The importance of the announcement was evidenced by the interest shown by the newspapers who regarded the completion of the new arrangement as a matter of general public interest. of America to install Radiola super-heterodyne radio receiving units in Victrola machines, promising shipments of the new combination in the Fall. on May 19, to the effect that the company has contracted with the Radio Corp. Officials Provide for Radiola Super-Heterodyne in Combination with the Victrola The talking machine trade throughout the country has already been made aware through daily newspaper stories of the announcement of the Victor Talking Machine Co. Announces Plans for Radiola Installation in Victor Talking Machines Important Arrangements Announced at Meeting of Radio Corp. ![]()
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