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The Public Radio Study, 1969
This study — partially funded by CPB and the Ford Foundation during CPB’s first year and released in April 1969 — recommended ...The Public Radio Study, 1969
Summary and Recommendations This study — partially funded by CPB during its first year and released in April 1969 — recommended creation of ...Proposal on Formation of the Public Television Network, 1968
What kind of organization should interconnect the public TV stations? On Sept. 23, 1968, a little more than a year before the ...The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
Enacted less than 10 months after the report of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Broadcasting, this law initiates federal aid to the ...The Hidden Medium: A Status Report on Educational Radio in the United States, 1967
With support building for federal aid to public TV, the advocates of public radio found they had to act quickly to make their ...President Johnson asks Congress to aid public television, 1967
A month after the release of the first Carnegie Commission report, LBJ announced legislation to help pay for operations of public TV for ...Carnegie I: Members, Preface and Introductory Note, 1967
A 15-member commission created in 1965 by a major foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, released its report, Public Television: A Program ...Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, ‘Public Television: A Program for Action,’ 1967
A 15-member commission created in 1965 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York released its report, “Public Television: A Program for Action,” on ...Public Television: A Program for Action, Carnegie I, Summary, 1967
A 15-member commission created in 1965 by a major foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, released its report, Public Television: A Program ...Carnegie I: E.B. White’s letter to the first Carnegie Commission
In this letter to the first Carnegie Commission, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker magazine essayist (1899-1985) gives one of the most compact and eloquent ...Educational Television Progress Report, Sen. Warren Magnuson, 1965
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), then chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, laid out the case for federal aid to public broadcasting ...Educational Television Progress Report, Sen. Warren Magnuson, 1965
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), then chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, laid out the case for federal aid to public broadcasting in ...Educational Television Facilities Act of 1962
With this law, signed by President Kennedy on May 1, 1962, Congress gave the first major federal aid to public broadcasting. The grants ...President Kennedy, 1962: Facilities act will help put unused educational TV channels on the air
Statement by President John F. Kennedy, May 1, 1962, upon signing the Educational Television Facilities Act, Public Law 87-447 (76 Stat. 64), which ...Educational Television Facilities Act of 1962
With this law, signed by President Kennedy on May 1, 1962, Congress gave the first major federal aid to public broadcasting. The ...
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