broadcasting quotes

In broadcasting your audience is conjectural, but it is an audience of one.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  'Poetry and the Microphone'.

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

- Morley Safer
  In 60 Minutes, CBS TV broadcast,15 Sep.

  It is essential that broadcasting be surrounded with such safeguards as will prevent the air becoming what might be described as an atmospheric billboard.

- Sir Henry Thornton
  Address to theAdvertising Clubs of theWorld, Philadelphia, 21 Jun. Quoted in E AustinWeir The Struggle for National Broadcasting in Canada (1965).

I am reported to be 'pessimistic'about broadcasting† [The] truth is that I have anticipated its complete disappearanceconfident that the unfortunate people, who must now subdue themselves to'listening-in', will soon find a better pastime for their leisure.

- H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
  TheWay theWorld is Going.