Mutual Broadcasting System
type: Agent
type: Organisation
type: Company
subject: Category:Companies disestablished in 1999
subject: Category:Defunct radio networks in the United States
subject: Category:1934 establishments in the United States
subject: Category:Radio stations established in 1934
subject: Category:Mass media companies established in 1934
subject: Category:Westwood One
subject: Category:Entertainment companies established in 1934
subject: Category:Radio stations disestablished in 1999
subject: Category:Mutual Broadcasting System
subject: Category:1999 disestablishments in the United States
subject: Category:Cooperatives in the United States
footer: "Mutual makes music" with Perry Como and Eddie Fisher in 1954, the twilight of live entertainment and music on network radio.
foundation: 1934-09-29
image: Mutual Broadcasting System - Perry Como 1954a.jpg
image: Mutual Broadcasting System - Eddie Fisher 1954a.jpg
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author: Lynn Meyer
author: Richard DeVos
author: Nick Kiernan
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source: Westwood One vice president of affiliate relations, on the 1999 retirement of the "Mutual News" name
source: president of the Intermountain Network/KALL, on their March 1959 disaffiliation from Mutual
quote: When I entered this business, everybody I'd meet wanted to talk to me about O&O's and I remember the first staff meeting I ever had at Mutual after we bought it, and I went in and I met everybody, and they said, "What about O&O's?" And I remember my answer was, "What's an O&O?" Well they all kind of laughed. Then they all told me that that was the way to go. We had to own a bunch of radio stations. Well, I didn't buy a network to think I had to buy a bunch of radio stations—I thought I'd already bought something.
quote: Mutual apparently refuses to believe that we have disaffiliated. We are sympathetic to their problem, but we have definitely affiliated with ABC Radio.
quote: "In this world of media brand names, there's so much synergy that's involved, and Mutual had to hang out there by itself. It was very hard to support it."
name: Mutual Broadcasting System
description: شركة أمريكية @ar
description: Desaparecida cadena radial de Estados Unidos @es
description: former radio broadcasting network
image size: 150
wordnet type: synset-network-noun-2
hypernym: Network