"Proposal for Supplemental Public Radio Broadcasting System" (May 16, 1935)

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Record Details:

Title:
"Proposal for Supplemental Public Radio Broadcasting System"
Date:
May 16, 1935
Publisher:
Wisconsin Historical Society
Volume:
"Proposal for Supplemental Public Radio Broadcasting System" (May 1935)
Leaf #:
0003
Language:
English
Contributor:
Crane, Arthur G.
Sponsor:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Coordinator:
Maryland Institute for Technlogy in the Humanities
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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largest audiences of possible customers wherever they may be, whatever their grade of intelligence and taste may be. This results in over-broadcasting in the thickly settled areas and the scarcity of privileges in the less thickly settled areas of our country. This basic limitation of the present system explains many things about whieh we now protest and which we hope can be remedied or improved by the plan which we will propose. Let me say again that anything that we say that seems to be criticism is of a friendly nature. We greatly appreciate the things that have been done and are being done in our present system. We propose today a combination plan which we think will conserve the major advantages of several systems. We propose a plan in which there shall parallel the present private commercial system a government system* a government chain paralleling the present commercial chain. Notice I said "paralleling;” in other words, supplementing but not supplanting, not displacing, the present system; not creating any undue interference with the present system; not jeopardizing the investments that have been made in the present system; but a government chain that will give programs for public interest, that will be independent of the necessities and limitations of producing income from advertising; a government system that shall select its programs solely from the standpoint of public neces¬ sity and public welfare. This combination plan, we believe, will give America the advantages of the present private system and the advantages of the public system; where one system inevitably is limited and cramped, the other system may be strong; one will sup¬ plement the other and the combination will be the best the world possesses in broadcasting. This system as we envision it would also stimulate the establishment and operation of local public broadcasting stations. One of the chief handicaps - 4 -