Reithianadj.

1938 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 27 Jan. 3/4 But having tilted hard at aspects of ‘the Reithian ideology’, the biographer shows how although Sir John is the Autocrat of the Air he is always responsive to the instinctive humanities.

1950 Econ. Jrnl. 60 825 It is gravely to be doubted if..a monopoly composed of world-wide and home services and employing 12,000 persons, could ever compass the altered task on the same Reithian lines.

1963 Times 12 Jan. 4/5 An elaborate compromise between past and present balancing Reithian principles against television's need to survive as show business.

1973 Times 9 June 10/4 Nowhere has the Reithian prediction—offer the public what it wants and it will want what it gets—been vindicated more awesomely.

1984 New Statesman 16 Nov. 16/2 Their sponsors include the IBA..and the BBC (in whose Reithian corridors the epithet ‘wall-to-wall Dallas’ was reputedly coined).

1993 Guardian 1 July i. 22/3 The new ITV licences began on January 1, ushering in, as everyone agreed, a more competitive, less Reithian, commercial television system.

2006 Arena Oct. 149/1 I suppose I'm part of that Reithian principle that television should be informative and educational and should aspire to greatness.