Pat Weaver
The 'Monitor' concept came from my conviction that if television had been invented first, by the nature of the need for people to be where they could watch the set pretty much to enjoy... that the medium of sound, radio only, audio only, would still have been developed as a national service.
Relics of a remote and storied era overwhelmed me. They enlarged my world view, my sense of the importance of history.
Essentially, we can once again have the whole American public know that any time in the weekend they need not be alone and they don't have to sit there watching the television set - they can turn this service on and in will come the flow.