History of public media
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 ...Fred Friendly: ‘a tough man but, my God, full of ideas’
Fred W. Friendly, the legendary CBS News producer who tried to bring innovation to public TV in the 1960s and later developed ...PTV Weekend proposal by Lawrence Grossman, 1997
In May 1997, former PBS President Lawrence K. Grossman put forth results of a study backed by the Markle Foundation. He proposed ...KQED made its mark by making programs
San Francisco’s KQED-TV remains one of the most-watched public TV stations in the country, but, in the 1980s and ’90s it suffered under ...A ragtime pianist shows public TV how to have fun
Max Morath reminded America about a largely forgotten part of its musical legacy, but beyond that achievement of mass education, the musician also ...Revisiting Brideshead Revisited
You may have recently reacquainted yourself with this classic public TV mini-series. The American Program Service and 20 stations have brought it ...Ralph P. Forbes v. Arkansas Educational Television, 1996
Ralph P. Forbes, and The People, Appellant, v. The Arkansas Educational Television Commission, and its Board of Directors in their Official Capacities; The ...Public Broadcasting Self-Sufficiency Act of 1996, H.R. 2979
Introduced by Rep. Jack Fields, 1996; no action taken A bill governing the phase-out of federal appropriations to CPB, introduced in the House, ...Frank Baxter, television’s first man of learning
Like Norman Corwin, the exceptional radio producer profiled in the last issue of Current, Frank Baxter had his great broadcast successes on the ...History-makers tour new archives
The old-timers wandered curiously among the shelves, munching cookies and poking into file boxes, looking casually for their footprints in the history ...At reunion, early leaders of public broadcasting express pride about past, concern for future
The man who put New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia on the radio, reading the comics during a newspaper strike — M.S. “Morrie” ...Congress emphasizes CPB’s ‘objectivity and balance’ obligations, 1992
CPB from its start had always had responsibility for ensuring “objectivity and balance” in programming that it funded, but on June 2, ...Independent Television Service Inc. Articles of Incorporation, 1989
ITVS was funded through 1988 legislation requiring the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to establish an independent program service “to expand the diversity and ...Tuning out education, Chapter 5
Failing to foster lasting Cooperation between commercial broadcasters and educators, but sticking to its rhetoric, NACRE covered up the fatal inertia that ...Tuning out education, Chapter 4
The Depression created a demand for sober, public-service uses of radio. Seizing the moment, NACRE launched the most ambitious experiments in national ...
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