ARTISTS’ FEES
2000 DOLLARS A BROADCAST. SYDNEY EXPERTS’ OBSERVATIONS. Melbourne, February 18. Mr. John Dunne, studio manager of Station 2SM, Sydney, who returned to-day on the liner Narkunda from a world tour, said that commercial broadcasting was booming in the United States, where several leading artists, including Bing Crosby, Eddie Cantor, and Lawrence Tibbett, were receiving as much as 2000 dollars (about £515) a broadcast.
Mr. Dunne studied the technique and latest methods employed by the British Broadcasting Commission and the National Broadcast Corporation of America. Australian broadcast programmes, he said, were of as high a standard as anything he had heard from the British stations, but the United States was still leading the world in the variety and quality of its wireless programmes.
Mr. Dunne, who was present at a television broadcast aranged by the British Broadcasting Commission, compared this form of entertainment in its present development to the silent films of the early days. “The image,” he said, “jumped and flickered on the screen, and, in my opinion, it will be a long time before television will be available for commercial purposes.”
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4669, 14 March 1935, Page 3
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184ARTISTS’ FEES King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4669, 14 March 1935, Page 3
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