ABSTRACT
When radio broadcasting became a possibility after the First World War, the Government had to decide how it was to be organised, funded and regulated. There were several choices.
1 The first was to follow the American route where the market determined who should broadcast, what they broadcast (within reason), and who listened. In Britain this was not seen as a good route to go down for various reasons: the ‘chaos of the airwaves’ that was seen to be happening in America, a distrust of commercialism and a distrust of American culture.
