"Television: the revolution," ([1944])

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
00028
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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"THE BLOCK-BUSTER" Television presents an accurate-to-scale model of this problem. The ether through which radio pictures travel is public domain. The peo- ple, through their government, have every right to supervise the medium in the public interest, and license broadcasters. And it seems reason- able to hope that television stations will be granted commercial licenses soon after the war. In the past it has been the democratic way to give courageous and enterprising citizens free rein to develop new fields. Such opportunity has meant that the nation's most vigorous minds could attack the problems directly and effi- ciently. This method has served America well. Sometimes it has led to abuses on the part of purely selfish interests. This must not happen in television. Some arrangement must be made to curb such practices. Preferably, these fractious elements should be outlawed by a "jury of their peers" within the industry. Self-discipline is always more desirable than policing from the outside. Television's would-be exploiters can be restrained most effectually by a concerted action of all their fellow-interests in the industry— "all" meaning an equal representation of tele- vision's share-holders, not only financial, but