Year: 1998
Gore panel endorses adding educational DTV channels
An extra digital TV channel should be reserved in every community for noncommercial educational purposes, the Gore Commission recommended last week in its ...An Age of Kings: an import becomes public TV’s first hit
It was public TV's first unqualified national success, a smash hit. Before Masterpiece Theatre, American Playhouse or Hollywood Television Theatre, there was ...“The Public Interest Standard in Television Broadcasting”
In 1998, the Clinton administration’s so-called Gore Commission reviewed the “public interest” basis of federal broadcasting law as part of its report ...More, deeper, broader: where ‘enhanced’ DTV goes
If you were among a certain handful of people watching the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick bio Frank Lloyd Wright Nov. 10–11, you could get a ...For subjects, documentary is “strong form of family therapy”
Various people tried to prepare Juanita Buschkoetter for the public reaction to The Farmer’s Wife, filmmaker David Sutherland’s cinema verite depiction of the real-life ...Henry Hampton: ‘He endured because his vision was so important’
Henry Hampton, the visionary filmmaker who documented the history of the civil rights movement with the landmark PBS series Eyes on the Prize, died ...FCC Notice on DBS Public Interest Obligations, November 1998
Before the FCC 98-307 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of Implementation of Section 25 of the Cable Television Consumer Protection ...DBS ruling: FCC reserves 4% of channels for education
Direct broadcast satellite companies will have to set aside 4 percent of their video channel capacity for noncommercial educational programming, the FCC ...Edward James Olmos will head interim Latino TV grantmaking organization
Actor Edward James Olmos is heading a new interim organization that will spend CPB programming funds on public TV projects by and ...Can public radio learn to talk to its Gen-X future?
Public radio’s Gen-X listeners don’t fit their generational stereotype; they’re closer to its older audience than to their peers, said a report ...American Experience: where we’ve come from
On a warm summer day in 1946 I find myself, somewhat improbably, at the helm of a U.S. Navy ocean tug, threading ...On to the White House
The House and Senate resolved last-minute differences over public broadcasting’s fiscal 1991-93 authorization bill and late last week passed the three-year, $800 ...HDTV debut: full-blown spectacle
Even on crappy old analog TV — the way nearly all of its audience will see it Nov. 9 — PBS’s premiere ...Master of talks: Cooke, in his Letter from America
Masterpiece Theatre was a relatively short run for Alistair Cooke, and his intros mere appetizers. For more of Cooke, as he turns 90, sample ...Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Comparative Standards for Noncommercial Educational Applicants, 1998
In 1998, the FCC addressed a longtime gap in its set of procedures with this rulemaking proposal. See the resulting April 2000 ...
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