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License fees for listeners!
And in the wake of government control and operation, would come a Federal license on radio receiving sets — a pall on home enjoyment and education in the form of the heavy hand of the government tax-collector, taxing sets and tubes.
These are some of the steps in the vicious program of federal control and taxation, already disclosed by movements underway at Washington.
Wake up — gentlemen of the radio industry!
It is time, therefore, that radio men and radio listeners woke up to the presence of the forces that are about to imperil radio listening and "the American Way of Doing Things."
American broadcasting — like all other human
institutions — has some faults. But broadcasting's shortcomings are minor — and merely serve to accentuate the merits of an otherwise magnificent — truly miraculous — public service. American broadcasting is sound and healthy, and has grown strong and vital under its own initiative.
In the best interests of American radio, the present system must be retained along its present broad principles of private operation.
Americans don't want:
Government ownership of broadcasting. Censorship of programs. Limitation of station service. Political domination of radio. Bureaucratic administration of programs. Taxes or licenses for radio listening. Those are not "the American Ways of Doing Things."
ONLY IN THE UNITED STATES IS RADIO COMPLETELY FREE
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GERMANY
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The size of the radio sets indicates the relative number of radio homes per thousand of population in each country
The United States leads in radio because radio in the U.S. offers the best programs — because radio in the U.S. is free!
March, 1938
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