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What the committeemen think about the U.S. brand will finally be incorporated in their report. It may surprise U.S. radiomen who confidently believe that the U.S. leads the world. Justin Miller, president of the U.S. National Association of Broadcasters, has dismissed British and all foreign radio as "dull, lifeless dishwater . . . and great doses of government propaganda...
...Many radiomen think the Chicago experiment is doomed. They see a parallel between what is happening in TV and what happened in radio in the '30s, when Chicago pioneered in low-budget dramas, documentaries like The Empire Builders, and situation comedies like Amos 'n' Andy, Fibber McGee & Molly, and Vic and Sade. By 1937, almost 400 network shows a month were originating in Chicago for NBC alone. Then New York money and Hollywood climate and opportunities began to siphon off Chicago's talented radiomen, and most of the remaining shows degenerated into a mishmash of successful...
Neither radio nor television has yet produced anything to match such notable, on-the-spot broadcasts of World War II as the round-the-clock reports from the Normandy beachhead, the liberation of Paris, or the running account of a bombing raid on Berlin. But radiomen were taking considerable satisfaction from the surveys which showed a sharp climb in radio news audiences (up 18% over last year). With listeners hungry for early, accurate news reports from the Korean front, many a television owner was beginning to turn back to his radio again...
Shirley May France of Somerset, Mass, had spent six weeks warming up for her second try at the English Channel. Six boatsful of reporters and radiomen were ready to follow her across. Shirley May herself was pretty confident. At 17, she was a year older, twelve pounds heavier (168), and a year wiser about the Channel than when she tried and failed last summer (TIME, Sept. 19, 1949). A little before 3 one morning last week, Shirley May, well-coated with sheep grease, waded into the water at Cap Gris Nez and struck out for Dover, 19 miles away...
...speech at the University of Oklahoma last week, Wayne Coy, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said: "Our files of letters protesting crime programs are bulging." Noting the fondness of radiomen for charts and graphs, he offered some statistical guidance. More than 300 pediatricians, sociologists, neuro-psychiatrists and psychologists, said Coy, were questioned on the effects of crime programs. The results: 90% said such shows had a bad psychological effect on children; 93% said radio thrillers and programs ending in suspense had a bad effect; 81% agreed that present-day radio programs contribute to children's delinquency or antisocial...