How much impact did FCC Chairman Newton Minnow's 1961 remarks have on radio?

[Radio Chap]

Newton Minnow is widely known for his remarks in May 1961 in which he criticised television as a "vast wasteland." However, Minnow made another, different set of remarks a few months later regarding radio.

In September of that year, Minnow pre-recorded a speech that was played at the CBS Radio Affiliates Association's eight annual convention. Here is the text of his speech:




Can anyone speak to what impact Mr. Newton's remarks had on radio? Or were they so obscure that they garnered no attention at all?

 

[ContinuousWave]

Don't know about his comments on radio but I do know because he made the statement about television, he found his name being put on a shipwrecked tour boat on CBS a few years later. Yes that is why the SS Minnow on Gilligan's Island got its name.

 

[TheBigA]

Minnow was very active in the early development of what we know as public broadcasting. So in that way he partly inspired the creation of NPR. BTW Minnow is still alive and is 96 years old.