[78-L] NBC chiimes

[DAVID BURNHAM]

As those who are on the ARSC list know, there's currently a discussion going on at that site about the NBC chimes.

I recall reading a story but I'm very sketchy on the details.  I think it was about Bruno Walter with the Columbia Symphony performing a work to be broadcast on the CBS network.  The problem was that this work, (it may have been by Shostakovitch or Stravinsky, or someone else), very prominently featured the tones of the NBC chimes and for that reason CBS didn't want to broadcast it.  I may have any or all of the details wrong on this but does this ring a bell, (pun intended), with anyone else?

db