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"WE CAME, WE SAW, WE COMMUNICATED"; RYAN LAUDS WAR RADIO
The type Is small and the length as reprinted in the National Association of Broadcasters’ membership report of July 28 is about 3| pages, but everyone connected with the broadcasting industry should take the time to read the address made by President J. Harold Ryan on "Radio’s Public Service in Time of War". Deliver¬ ed before the State Conference on the Use of Radio in Earra and Home Safety under the New York Department of Health, it was one of the finest tributes ever paid to radio broadcasting.
As far as the writer knows, this is the first time Mr,
Ryan, a practical broadcaster who has been in the business from the start, has spoken at any length since he became head of the NAB, In slang parlance, he "surely said a mouthful". We regret not having the space to print the full text. Some of the highlights of Mr,
Ryan’s address follow:
"Radio, to a great many people in this country, was born on the sixth day of June in the year nineteen hundred and fortyfour less than two months ago. They had used it, enjoyed it, grown accust¬ omed to it, turned to it instinctively on D-Day but never really knew what it was until its microphones went into action alongside fighting sons, husbands and brothers invading the shores of Normandy from the sea and from the air. The minute by minute account of this mighty combat, the voices of brave men from abroad, the roar of guns and planes and hoise of battle sent thousands impulsively to their knees in prayer for those who were known to be in the invasion forces.
"To the industry itself , however, D-Day marked radio’s arrival at maturity. A great crisis, more than the passage of years, often brings a person or an Industry to its full development, to the firm realization of its faculties and abilities. Radio, slowly and painstakingly groomed for its major role in world affairs, which its founders visioned twenty years ago, on D-Day came to grips first hand with a major phase of this world shattering war. To paraphrase a well-known quotation: ’We came, we saw, we communicated, ’ In doing so, we attained our uncontested majority. "
"The Magnetic Wire Recorder, one of radio’s most valuable I front line repor’tlng mechanisms, is a wartime development. Light an I easy load for one man this equipment permits recording on a spool of 1 wire. No needles, no fragile records this rugged recorder absorbs an accurate sound picture of the heaviest combat, explosions and all, as the reporter tells his running story of action at the front,
. Rushed back to 'ii.ransraisslon headquarters, the battle description is : ready for broadcast immediately,
"The forerunner of the Magnetic Wire Recorder, however, w^as 'ihe recording truck used by the radio station in your town to obtain jnterviews and descriptions of public events in that area, which were later broadcast, * * * Some of the most vivid radio reports of this war owe their existence to the Magnetic Wire Recorder. "
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