International Radio Programming Sseminar and Pop Music Disk Jockey Convention  allowed radio personalities and executives to meet with record companies to discuss mutual concerns

The Miami Disk Jockey Covention was a Todd Storz idea. Previously he had held a moderately successful similar convention the previous March in Kansas City, Missouri. The biggest news of that convention was from keynote speaker Mitch Miller who blasted stations for catering to "the pre-shave crowd" at the expense of adults in their audience who "are yearning for a break from the noise on radio."

Things would different in Miami. There were bus tours of south Florida for the wives while their husbands attended workshops and seminars. A filmed welcoming address by President Eisenhower, followed by Dr. Shane McElroy of Eisenhower's Council on Youth Fitness who urged the DJs  to promote youth fitness.

The convention was completely underwritten by record companies with the only expense to the DJs and station personnel being transportation and hotel accommodations.

Some of the biggest names in radio and television like Art Ford, Buddy Deanne, Martin Block and Gordon McClendon were on panels.

ABC-Paramount  provide limousine rides from the airport to the Americana Hotel and Columbia gave each DJ a carrying case. Dot Records rented a blimp pulling a streamer promoting Pat Boone

Capital Records staged a recording session with Peggy Lee and George Shearing at a Friday night cocktail party. RCA set up a recording suite where DJs could record interviews and take photos to mail to their hometown newspapers. The convention began Thursday with a cocktail reception hosted by Mercury Records.

Miami mayor Robert King proclaimed May 24-31 as Disk Jockey Week in Miami. Following the convention's opening breakfast on Friday, United Artists Records  Harold Fellows president of the National Association of Broadcasters delivered the keynote address in which he warn that DJs shouldn't be so self absorbed to think they are more important than the station employees. Then the 2500 attendees took part in a weekend of "professional pursuits" that the Miami Herald called "Booze, Broads and Bribes."

Upon arrival each DJ was given $1 million dollars in play money. They could win even more by gambling in games fixed in their favor or stop by the RCA suite for a free drink and get another $5,000. At convention end  they could use that money at a real auction where they could win real merchandise such as color TVs, trips to Europe or even a Studebaker Lark.

During the May 29-31 convention nineteen  record companies ran up a tab of $117,664 at the Americana Hotel to entertain disk jockeys.

Saturday  night's entertainment featured seventeen acts that included Pat Boone, Peggy Lee, Vic Damone, Andy Williams and Count Basie

The convention was a free flowing with alcohol and women in bikinis around the clock.

As big as the Saturday concert was Roulette Records owner Morris Levy's after party was the place to be. Levy put on an all night recording session by Count Basie's Band with a late night barbecue and early morning breakfast. Levy paid for it all. $15,000 for the recording session, barbecue and breakfast. The breakfast cost $2,360, the barbecue $4,205, and the bar tab $8.850 which included 2,000 bottles of bourbon.

Prior to the hearings start it was learned that the House subcommittee was looking at the deejay's convention in Miami, Florida. The subcommittee subpoenaed records of the American Hotel. The Disk Jockey Association was formed to counter the bad publicity generated by the convention.

House investigators Edward Eicher, special services director for the Americana Hotel appeared to identify records of the hotel that had been subpoenaed by the investigators. Capital paid $19, 812.71 Dot $19,485.92; Vee Jay $1,481.31.

Congressman John Moss said about the convention "I've heard about the three Bs description, but not as a bar, barbecue and breakfast"

Nineteen  record companies ran up a tab of $117,664 at the Americana Hotel during the May 29-31 convention, with $68,144 of that for receptions, cocktail parties and similar events. Roulette Records spent $15,415 for an all-night Count Base recording session