PROFITS FROM THE AIR
A "Daily Telegraph" comment on the meagre profits from radio-playwriting has evoked a protest from a successful radio dramatist. He told of one play of his which has made him £300 in one month. Another, he calculates, should bring in over £1000 in nine months. Most of this, however, will come from America. A typical 8.8..C. fee is 25 guineas for a first performance, and ten guineas for a repeat. This, he says, is princely compared with the profits from short-story writing for British magazines. American broadcasting is not quite the Tom Tiddler's ground, however, that the correspondent's success suggests. Rank-and-file broadcasters just now are complaining bitter of their poor fees.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 16, 19 July 1939, Page 12
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115PROFITS FROM THE AIR Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 16, 19 July 1939, Page 12
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