[NJARC] NY/Philly Overlap

[John Ruccolo]

>From WikiPedia:
 
The Wasteland Speech was a speech given by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Newton N. Minow to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961. The speech was Minow's first major speech after he was appointed chairman of the FCC by President John F Kennedy. In the speech, Minow referred to television programming as a "vast wasteland" and advocated for programming in the public interest.
"When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers — nothing is better.
But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your own television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.
You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons. And endlessly commercials — many screaming, cajoling, and offending. And most of all, boredom. True, you'll see a few things you will enjoy. But they will be very, very few. And if you think I exaggerate, I only ask you to try it."[1]



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From: Robert Flory <robandpj at earthlink.net>
To: njarc at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Wed, May 26, 2010 4:30:20 AM
Subject: [NJARC] NY/Philly Overlap

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Second most fun with the TV, the rotor.......Kachunk, kachunk, kachunk.

Third most fun with the TV, holding magnets up to the screen and watching the colors go wacky.  Boy was I nervous when it stayed that way, fortunately only for a little while.

Trivia:  Who referred to TV programming as a "vast wasteland" (before I was born) ?  I sure didn't remember or even recognize the name.

Recall the old timers from RCA saying, "best feature we ever put in a TV was the off switch".

RF
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