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Every British radio owner pays an annual fee of ?1. BBC operates on only three wave lengths: the "Light" (mostly variety shows and dance music), the "Home" (slightly heavier fare), and the "Third Program" (strictly cultural). Thousands of listeners add to BBC revenues by buying BBC publications. Radio Times, a...
Sir Arthur Salter, who edited the symposium, concludes by weighing the merits of British and U.S. radio. "The American system . . . gives the listener without license fee a greater variety of programs. It has two disadvantages which have made this country prefer a public monopoly. There are the irritating interruptions of...
Stop the Music, a hardy musical hybrid of "Miss Hush" and the Pot o' Gold, is a variation on a well-worked theme. Master of Ceremonies Bert Parks telephones to people chosen at random across the U.S., asks the listener to identify the popular tune then being played. If...
The London audience felt all right-but pain, not pleasure. Said one listener after the concert: "It sounded like they were always tuning up." And the critics gave the First a glacial reception. Said the Daily Herald: "Except at the dentist's, I don't remember a longer...
In 1945, the orchestra gave its first public performance and became the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra. Last year when the orchestra played for the radio, one listener-Arturo Toscanini-was delighted. He rushed to the phone and shouted to an NBC big shot: "This orchestra is wonderful ... who is this...