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

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
00064
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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"WHO'S GOING TO PAY THE BILLS?" 45 The foremost developments in television as a service to the public have been achieved in the British Isles. BBC has been turning out remark- ably high quality television broadcasts from its studios in Alexandra Palace since the mid- thirties. Television receivers in the London met- ropolitan area number in the tens of thousands. The "angel" of BBC's television is the British Government. Exactly as in sound-broadcasting, the sight-transmissions of the British Broadcast- ing Corporation are supported through a tax on receiving sets collected by the post office depart- ment. In England, government controlled and operated television seems to have been highly successful. How about the same system for the USA? Fifty million people are probably wincing at the thought. Government operation of radio just isn't our way of doing things. Commercial sound broadcasting has taught American audiences to expect a different kind of entertainment from their radio sets than the British demand from their government-controlled stations. The type of broadcast which the Britisher is accustomed to call satisfactory, is not as lavish or as brightly- paced as that demanded by American audiences.