Preface to A Public Trust
In 1977, 10 years after the original Carnegie Commission recomended federal aid to public television, the Carnegie Corporation of New York created a second blue-ribbon panel to ponder policies on noncommercial broadcasting. See also Carnegie II’s recommendations and membership. Twelve years have elapsed since the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television recommended a strengthened system of television stations, to be called public television. In the intervening years public radio and television have become established as major American institutions. This year larger audiences than ever before, easily three times the size of those a dozen years ago, will tune into a public radio or television station.
Bythe Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting |
In 1977, a decade after the first Carnegie Commission boosted the idea of federal funding for noncommercial broadcasting, the Carnegie Corporation of New York created a second panel to study noncommercial broadcasting. In 1979, the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting published its report, A Public Trust. Its recommendations for increased federal aid and a Public Telecommunications Trust to replace CPB, had little effect. See also the preface to the report and the list of commission members, below at right. Summary of Findings and Recommendations
The Public Telecommunications Trust | The Endowment | Funding | Television Programs and Services | Public Radio | Technology| Education and Learning | Public Accountability
Members of Carnegie II*
William J. McGill, Chairman
President, Columbia University
Stephen K. Bailey
President, National Academy of Education
Red Burns
Executive Director, Alternate Media Center, School of the Arts
New York University
Henry J. Cauthen
Director, South Carolina Educational Television Network
Peggy Charren
President, Action for Children’s Television
Wilbur B. Davenport, Jr.
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Virginia B. Duncan
Board Member, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Eli N. Evans
President
Charles H. Revson Foundation
John W. Gardner
Common Cause
Alex P. Haley, Author
Walter W. Heller Professor, University of Minnesota
Josie R. Johnson
Board Member, National Public Radio
Kenneth Mason
President, Quaker Oats Company
Bill Moyers, WNET/13
Kathleen Nolan
President, Screen Actors Guild
J. Leonard Reinsch Chairman, Cox Broadcasting Corporation
Tomas Rivera
Executive Vice-President, University of Texas at El Paso
*Bill Cosby, actor; Carla Hills, a former secretary of housing and urban development; and Beverly Sills, opera singer; voluntarily resigned from the Commission during the course of this study as their participation became limited by other professional commitments.