For six weeks Maurice Winnick, one of Britain's top bandmen and radio producers (e.g., Ignorance Is Bliss, British version of It Pays to Be Ignorant), had been in the U.S., lining up British rights to U.S. radio shows. By the time he sailed for home last week, he had also lined up some decided views on the differences between state-monopoly (British) and private-enterprise (U.S.) broadcasting systems:
"All in all, British broadcasting isn't in it with you Americans. Here you've made a great study of radio. In England it's very amateur. Our apparatus, compared to yours, is quaint,...
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