“…This was to be a joint industry-education organization with the following aims: (1) to attract more schools to the study of broadcasting, (2) to improve broadcasting education, (3) to enhance the discipline and give it academic status, and (4) to secure financial support from the industry and to keep open the flow of information between education and industry. 49 That year, Edgar Willis categorized graduate theses in radio and television as falling into the following areas: education and broadcasting, administration, audience analysis, broadcasting and society, and program writing and production. One of his general suggestions for the future was that the graduate student should deal more with television than radio since television was by then the more important of the two media.…”