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FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1948 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE FIFTEEN BBC Cuts Down 'Needle Time' After Dispute By NORMAN CRIBBENS Canadian Press Staff Writer Lon ton-- (CP) -- Broadcasting of phonograph records by the BBC-- "needle-time" as it is known to technicians at Broadcasting House --is to be cut down as the result for the records of deceased musical and theatrical celebrities." Another dispute -- between the BBC and the actor's Union Equity-- | has hampered television hroadcast- | ing. Although the BBC had the ra- dio rights to Molnar's play "The Guardsman," Equity said it had no +| television rights. So the play will not be shown to owners of televis- ion sets. The Performing Rights Society has- always insisted that its mem- 'bers should be payed per wave length for performances of their | works. Now actors and musicians ' of a dispute with the record man- [are insisting that they be treated ufacturing companies. in The companies, backed by the the same way. "Under a monopoly system of | Musicians' Union, have insisted on | broadcasting, no performer or com- a cut of one hour a week through- | poser can depend on radio for a out the BBC's domestic and over- |living," an Equity official said. seas services because they claim "The BBC is beginning to discov- "too much free entertainment is|er, a little late, that whereas Eq- provided with records intended for | uity and the rest can do without sale to the public." television, television cannot do Fo: some time past it is estimated | Without them." about 10 hours of broadcasting weekly has been filled with rec- ords. The BBC have agreed "needle-time" with regret. 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