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Hello America Radio Adventures In Europe
Author: Cesar Saerchinger

Hello America - FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT - WHAT do you do all day is a question which sympathetic visitors to my office in London used to ask. What sort of work is it How can you spend all your time in Europe, working for American radio Do you broadcast yourself if so, why dont we hear it over here This book tries to answer these questions, t... more »o tell how the foreign radio representative - a breed of which I happened to be the first - whiles away the heavy hours. For seven years it was said by some of my friends that I wouldnt speak to anyone less than three thousand miles away. I want to assure them that this was not due to uppishness but to genuine preoccupation. In telling my story I do not pretend to completeness. Others have done as much, and more, for transatlantic radio, for narrowing the spiritual distance between the two great continents of the west. For nearly two years I had the field almost to myself those were the creative years. Then, in the heat of competition, many things emerged out of the flow of world events, of news, of interests often ephemeral but none the less exciting or amusing, as the case may be. It is he privilege and the merit of broadcasting to have drawn within its orbit the leading and significant personalities of contemporary life. These personalities have given content to an otherwise soulless machine it is through personalities - and personages - that I have tried o interpret the somewhat confused activities of these turbulent years. The purely informative chapters on the methods and the structure of international broadcasting X Foreword alad ckiowked ment have been relegated to the last section of the book, together with those general conclusions and speculations which not even the most matter-of-fact person could forego, if he had for a considerable time been on the inside of the most astounding mechanism ever devised by the human brain. Those who dont care for plain, factual information, or for the wider implications which reside in all functions, manifestations and appearances, may stop short of Part IV, which I consider the most important part of the book. Acknowledgments, then, are due first of all to my inquiring friends. Beyond that I am grateful to the heads of the Columbia Broadcasting System for affording me the leisure to write this book to the British Broadcasting Corporation for allowing me to use its library and some of its documentary information, as well as for the untiring courtesy of its staff to my friendly rivals, Fred Bate and Max Jordan, of the National Broadcasting Company, for essential information concerning their own European activities to the officials of the broadcasting administrations of the principal European countries, and in particular to Mr. Arthur E. Burrows, secretary-general of the International Broadcasting Union, for their cordial co-operation in the various endeavors which form the substance of my tale. I want to take this opportunity to thank Frederic William Wile for inveigling me into broadcasting, and Henry Adams Bellows for clinching the deal. Finally I am beholden to my successor, Edward R...

ISBN-13: 9781408612132
ISBN-10: 1408612135
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 442
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