John Reith, 1st Baron Reith Quotes

1889–1971 Scotland

John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith, (20 July 1889 – 16 June 1971), was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. In 1922, he was employed by the BBC (British Broadcasting Company Ltd.) as its general manager; in 1923 he became its managing director and in 1927 he was employed as the Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation created under a royal charter.

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Also known as: Lord John Reith, Sir John Reith

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Broadcasting is a development with which the future must reckon and reckon seriously. Here is an instrument of almost incalculable importance in the social and political life of the community, in affairs national and international.

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy

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