TELEPHONED MUSIC
Possibility In Britain
(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 23.
The Postmaster General’s Department has said that it is willing to consider applications for permission to distribute music by wire to business premises, restaurants and factories, but not to private homes. Permission is required for such broadcasts because they otherwise infringe on the Government’s telegraphic monopoly. If the applications are approved the result could be a series of stations all over the country, playing for a fee, record programmes direct to cafes, hotels, offices and factories from music centres set up by private companies. A Post Office spokesman said that a number of companies were already interested in the scheme. They would have to pay a small licence fee, pay royalties according to the number of subscribers and pay fees to the Performing Rights Society for using copyright music.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28493, 24 January 1958, Page 3
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