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Grounders were bouncing off gloves like bric-a-brac off the Eliot House tower. Pop flies were acting like coy Annex sophomores. The freshmen couldn't get their hands on anything...
...adman, had just published his own warning that radio was doomed. He predicted that radio, as the U.S. now knows it, will be wiped out by TV within three years. Speaking to the convention in the gilt and glitter of the Stevens' ballroom, FCCommissioner Wayne Coy concurred. "The essential difference between Mr. Aylesworth and me is one of time," said Coy. "His three years seems much too short...
Genial, bumbling Justin Miller, NAB's $75,000-a-year president, told the convention that he saw a faint light of hope. "I'm not so pessimistic as Wayne Coy or 'Deac' Aylesworth," he assured the delegates. "As long as radio profits are necessary to finance television, radio is not in immediate danger of giving...
...larger share of radio's advertising. Despite the record revenue for the industry as a whole, one out of every four radio stations showed a loss last year. Nearly half of the 340 stations licensed in 1948 failed to break even. Things looked even worse for 1949. Warned Coy: "Make no mistake about it -television is here and here to stay . . . It is a new force unloosed in the land. I believe it is an irresistible force...
...precious little china dogs, fruit baskets and coy shepherdesses that decorate the drawing rooms of the prosperous are not so very different from the glazed nudes and fauns on 5-&-10? store counters...