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2 General Sarnoff
"To the extent that pay-television might be financially successful, it would jeopardize the basis for economic survival of a free television system," General Sarnoff said. "In these cir¬ cumstances, free television broadcasters would inevitably be forced by economic necessity to engage in pay -television, and this, in turn, would set off a chain reaction which ultimately would mean the end of our American system of free television.
"Our American principle of Freedom to Listen and Freedom to Look is chiefly responsible for the growth of the most dynamic industry in the world today," General Sarnoff asserted. "It has made the American people the best informed in the world and it has done so without discrimination between the poor and the rich.
"The American people now receive, free, the best tele¬ vision service available anywhere in the world. There are more television broadcasting stations in the United States than in all the rest of the world combined. There are more television receivers in the United States than in all the rest of the world combined. American television stations offer the American people more television programs and a wider choice of television programming than any other television service in the world...
"It would be tragic for this Commission to authorize paytelevision to cripple this great democratic medium for the free dissemination of ideas, education and entertainment to all the people of America."
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