ABSTRACT
In scholarly communication Canada has for years been blessed with contributions of the highest order: the works of Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, George Grant, Dallas Smythe, and Northrop Frye particularly spring to mind. The Canadian Clubs were then experimenting with radio through the broadcast of luncheon speeches, "impressed, from a publicity and educational point of view, with the advantages of reaching a much larger audience than could fill a hotel lunch room. In 1930, with Alan Plaunt, Graham Spry formed, and until 1936 worked vigorously on behalf of, the Canadian Radio League, a voluntarist association dedicated to the establishment of public broadcasting in accordance with recommendations of the 1929 Aird Royal Commission. In the 1930's the medium of communication of most concern to Graham Spry was relatively inexpensive radio broadcasting, which diffused indiscriminately programming to all within the coverage area of a transmitter.
