Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1801
AUTHOR:
Newton N. Minow (1926– )
QUOTATION:
I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air … and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
ATTRIBUTION:
NEWTON N. MINOW, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, speech before the National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C., May 9, 1961.—Minow, Equal Time, p. 52 (1964).
