A Personal History of Early Television Broadcasting

"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home."
-- David Frost

This website is about those people...the broadcasters, who sneaked into your homes anyway.


"It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the American nation."
--
David Sarnoff

Ma Barker's Tales

"Television:
chewing gum for the eyes."
-- Frank Lloyd Wright


"Television? The word is half Greek and half Latin. No good will come of it."
-- C.P. Scott, editor, Manchester Guardian, 1928


"Sir Thomas Beecham says he believes that television can do much to improve the musical taste of the nation. "
-- The London Times, September 1, 1936

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