Comments about ‘Parents need to monitor TV use, NAB president Gordon Smith tells BYU audience’

Oh, won't somebody puh-leeze think of the children!!

It's sad when there are Historical Errors in stories like this.

At the end of the story it says Heber J. Grant
gave an address on KSL in 1922 inferring KSL in Salt Lake City. There was no "KSL" in Salt Lake City in 1922. What grew into KSL started in 1922
with the call sign of KZN and was started by a Deseret News photographer on the top of the "then" Deseret News building. The photographer was also a local Boy Scout leader and the "then" experimental radio station was a projrct for the scouts.

After going through briefly the call letters of KFPT
in roughly 1924, the station became KSL in 1925.
Earl J. Glade was one of the main players then and that when the LDS Church got seriously involved and has been since. So Heber J. Grant either talked over KZN in 1922 or KSL in 1925.

In 1922 the KSL letters were in San Francisco on a station then owned by the Emporium Department Store. That station only continued one year like many in that era of broadcsting, thus freeing up the "KSL" letters by 1925.

This will continue...

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The information about the KSL in San Francisco was found in John F. Schneider's "Early Broadcasting in the San Francisco Bay Area" (about 2/3rds of the way through the story) which the second story in a whole group of historical stories under the
category: "Voices Out of the Fog". The two headings
are easily accessed by google and/or yahoo or other internet search engines.

Historical accuracy should be a goal of all journalists and/or broadcasters.

When the Federal government created the Federal Radio Commission in 1927 (the predecessor to the FCC of 1934) NO MORE 3 letter call signs were issued. The thought behind that policy adopted in 1927 was that they would run out of letters since
the first letter for all USA station is used up with a "K" or a "W" for being located in the USA. Other countries have different "first" letters.

So the history of KSL/Salt Lake City has three
different call signs in its first 4 year of existence. KZN, KFPT, and then KSL. This info is available in any in-depth Utah Broadcast Historical record. So it was a 4 letter call station for a while.