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...merits of competition, and a new Board of Broadcast Governors (TIME, Nov. 16) will soon begin licensing private-enterprise second stations in all major cities. CBC President Alphonse Ouimet, 51, whose $17,000-a-year salary is less than one-sixth as much as NBC's President Robert Kintner's, expects to clear only $40 million in advertising revenues this year, and Parliament will have to make up the rest of CBC's $75 million budget (v. $37 million for Britain...
...reference to TIME'S Nov. 16 article on TV in general and Mr. Kintner in particular, may I contribute the following observation...
Instead of dinner, Mr. Kintner nightly eats a sandwich-a sandwich which is_ so easily "fixed." How much more appropriate would be a dish of tripe...
Perhaps if Mr. Kintner spent less time crouching before sponsors, he might not "find it difficult to be philosophical." Possibly he would discover a first principle to give desperately needed direction and purpose to the headless monster...
...Kintner and all other top TV men are equally opposed to the far more serious proposals from Pundit Lippmann for an independent TV network, devoted to "civilized entertainment," and the Christian Science Monitor's plea for a network modeled roughly on the British Broadcasting Corp. Both the noncommercial BBC and the British commercial ITV probably give a better balance of educational and entertainment programs than do U.S. networks. But as soon as Britain's commercial channel went into business three years ago, its lower-brow fare began to take the bulk of Britain's "telly" viewers away...