Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bashed Heads. In a broadside of letters to the stations, with copies to local newspapers and the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, 49-year-old Mrs. Logan temperately asked for the substitution of "acceptable programs which would be suitable for family viewing and listening . . ." FCCommissioner Wayne Coy thanked Mrs. Logan for her report and called it a "good job." The Los Angeles stations had no comment, except for KNBH, which replied that her action would only call attention to the very things she disliked and thereby create further interest in them...
...slick-paper monthly magazine, makes little instructive cartoon movies about the Marshall Plan aid, and runs a traveling agricultural exhibit supposed to convince French farmers that they could use a bright new ECA tractor. Other missions largely duplicate this pattern; all rely heavily on hand-outs to the local press for much of their publicity. Completing the propaganda facilities on our side are the various embassies, the United States Information Service, and the Voice of America...
...commented that radio has degraded our culture more than it has improved it. He attacked the major networks for trying to limit the local broadcasts of their affiliated stations, especially in the public service field...
...discussing non-profit radio stations, Kaltenborn said that the Harvard Radio Network's programs were just as "wicked" as the professional stations, only probably not as well presented. He commented that men at the University probably preferred to listen to regular networks, rather than the local station...
Wallach contends that Father Feeney's St. Benedict's Center fails to meet one of these criteria, the academic fitness of the teaching staff. He termed Father Feeney last night "a local religious version of George Sylvester Viereck and Father Coughlin before he saw his errors...