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"We think there ought to be a certain amount of culture in the land and that some of it probably ought to come from one Greater New York station. . . . Doesn't this kind of programming cost us jack we'll never get? You should hear what our treasurer says! If he got real nasty you know what we'd do? We'd blow a tickler in his face, that's what!"
What the radio industry will be chiefly tuned in for during the next couple of weeks is what Mr. McNinch says, if and when, as head of the President's interdepartmental Committee on Pan American broadcasting, he turns thumbs up or down on the Celler Bill's Government station. Since he has not pressed the radio time rate inquiry, and since he is not willing to make accusations against a radio monopoly until one is proved, there is a likelihood that Mr. McNinch will at any rate oppose the bill's domestic broadcasting provision. Hopefully the industry looks forward to Mr. McNinch's stringing along with Commissioner Case in the belief that "we had better hold on to what we have until we get something better," that U. S. broadcasting in its present state is worth holding on to and that the industry and the Commission had better go ahead together slowly.