Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.
I've always loved radio. Television scares me, because I'm older.
If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.
When television came out, there was concern it would kill radio.
TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.
I've always been fascinated with radio and broadcasting. I did fake radio shows as a kid, where I was a DJ and stuff like that.
I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.