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

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
00086
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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"TELEVISION TIME-TABLE" 67 edge which we have accumulated, and are mak- ing plans for future developments. This is a time of groping. A period of trial-and-error. This is the grammar school stage, in which we are learning by making mistakes. The United States has roughly a score of tele stations. They are operating on irregular schedules with skele- ton staffs—servicing, for the most part, audi- ences which do not exist. Although radio manu- facturers put several extremely satisfactory tele- vision sets on the market before Pearl Harbor, only the more courageous consumers ventured to buy. For about this whole period in the work- ing of television, there hangs a curtain of uncer- tainty. We are still learning. And the public knows that we are still learning. This segment of tele's life-span which we call "childhood" has extended over the better part of ten years, and may last for three or four years more. It is better that this era of broadcast history be ample in length, for if we burst into the next stage prematurely, the result may be disastrous. We can liken conditions in the television in- dustry today to the activities back-stage in a Broadway theatre an hour before the curtain is