[N.B.C trade releases]. (1955)

Page scan 00077 from [N.B.C trade releases].

Record Details:

Title:
[N.B.C trade releases].
Date:
1955
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : National Broadcasting Company]
Volume:
[N.B.C trade releases].
Leaf #:
00077
Language:
English
Subjects:
National Broadcasting Company -- Periodicals, Television programs -- United States -- Periodicals","Radio programs -- United States -- Periodicals","Press releases
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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Release: Monday A.M., June 6, 195 5. SARNOFF WARNS THAT PAY -TELEVISION WOULD DEGRADE AND ULTIMATELY DESTROY FREE TELEVISION NBC Chairman Asserts that "No Fee-No See" Television Would Result In Set Owners Having to Pay for TV Programs They Now Get Free — Cautions that Motion Picture Industry Might Take Over and Dominate Television Programming — Sees Broadcasters of Free Television Being Forced into Pay-TV — Appeals to FCC to Keep American Radio and Television Free to the Public Washington, D.C., June 6 — Pay-television will degrade and ultimately destroy free television. Brig. General David Sarnoff, Chairman of the Board of the National Broadcasting Company, warned in a statement filed here today with the Federal Communications Commission. "The pay-television promoters' philosophy of cash-on-thebarrelhead television is not in the public interest," General Sarnoff declared. "Their standard of public interest is 'No Fee - No See’." Urging that American radio and television broadcasting be kept free to the public. General Sarnoff said that coexistence between free television and pay-television is impractical. Paytelevision, he added, would turn the American system of free broadcasting to a restricted system of "narrowcasting." (more ) PRESS DEPARTMENT, NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, NEW YORK 20, NEW YORK