Were the commercials removed from the AFRS recordings? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Art Shifrin" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:52 AM Subject: [ARSCLIST] about commercialism & the US gov't > I was recently handling some AFRS ETs and noticed an interesting exception > to the exclusion of sponsors' identifies on AFRS versions of radio shows. > In the case of starring personalities renamings were simple i.e. The Lucky > Strike Program starring Jack Benny became the Jack Benny Program. The Lux > Radio Theater became the Hollywood Radio Theater. Yet, the NBC Symphony > conducted by Toscanini, et. al. retained the NBC part. Why was NBC > permitted to get frequent 'plugs' in this manner? It was no less a > commerical endeavor than any of the sponsors of its broadcasts. > > Shiffy