[2] An article in the trade publication Broadcasting described Waring's programs on radio (and later on television) as featuring "friendly banter with his crew, plus renditions of old-time favorite songs and ballads by the chorus and vocalists.
The World Broadcasting System produced three 15-minute transcriptions for distribution to 300 radio stations vial local Ford dealers.
[8] Those transcriptions were key in establishing a musical artist's legal rights with regard to recordings of performances.
In 1939, A United States District court in North Carolina granted Waring an injunction against using a transcription without his authorization.
It is his work, his property ..."[9] The ruling in North Carolina followed a similar decision in Pennsylvania, in which a state court said that radio station WDAS had to have Waring's permission to broadcast recordings that he had made.