scale.

     The uniting of radio with phonograph that constitutes 
the average radio program yields a very special pattern quite 
superior in power to the combination of radio and telegraph 
press that yields our news and weather programs. It is curious 
how much more arresting are the weather reports than the 
news, on both radio and TV. Is not this because “weather” is 
now entirely an electronic form of information, whereas news 
retains much of the pattern of the printed word? It is probably 
the print and book bias of the BBC and the CBC that renders 
them so awkward and inhibited in radio and TV presentation. 
Commercial urgency, rather than artistic insight, fostered by 
contrast a hectic vivacity in the corresponding American 
operation.