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...unrealized and lackluster medium. "It is a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere," says radio pioneer Lee DeForrest, and columnist Robert C. Ruark contributes these adjectives: "Corny, strident, boresome, florid, repetitive, offensive, moronic, and nauseating." Occasionally big radio wheels like Mr. Stanton or Mr. Paley rise and plunge the dagger in their bressiz by decrying their own low standards. And groups like the FCC and Listeners' Councils are bee-busy trying to urge radio over the 13-year-old level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 4/15/1947 | See Source »

William S. Paley (Sun. 1:30 p.m.; CBS). CBS' top man starts off a series on radio's problems and policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Then the broadcasters hit back. Blared NBC President Niles Trammell: "Advertising [is] the vital spark in our way of life." Mutual President Ed Kobak snorted that Bill Paley should have expressed his views in private because such statements were bad public relations for the industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Noes Have It | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...Hell," said one broadcaster, "what's eating this Paley? Nobody's kicking out my way. Biggest year I ever had-advertisers practically climbing in the windows." There was no doubt that these were the views of almost all broadcasters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Noes Have It | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...critics had made at least a few gains. Said one Paley convert: "It's a funny game where the jackasses pin the tail on the people, but that's radio until the people realize it." Said a shrewd radio editor, veteran of many an N.A.B. convention: "At least they had it thrown in their faces by one of their own kind. They had to face it. And they're going to have to face it from now on. FCC has licensed more than 400 new stations in the last year and there's more coming. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Noes Have It | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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