Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
How the Works Progress Administration played a critical role in WNYC’s history
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The New York station may not have survived the Great Depression without help from the federal government.
History of public media
With help from Peter Rabbit and fairy princesses, a pioneering educator showed how radio could teach
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During his 35 years at Indiana State Teachers College — now Indiana State University — Clarence “Doc” Morgan also trained scores of future broadcasters.
Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
After 50 years on TV, has Sesame Street been gentrified?
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To one viewer and parent, competitive pressures and fading institutional knowledge have compromised the show’s “gritty urban utopianism.”
Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
Looking back on the lesser-known histories of ‘Chicano Public Radio’
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A group of bilingual radio stations founded in the late 1970s “helped distinguish Spanish-language and bilingual broadcasting as a form of advocacy.”
Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
How France’s national broadcaster bolstered U.S. public radio in its formative years
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From the 1940s to the 1970s, dozens of U.S. public radio stations featured French cultural programming that “let us know that the French people like us and vice versa.”
Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
In 1970, riots and tear gas couldn’t sideline Ohio’s WOSU — but its licensee’s president did
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“The tone of operations was business as usual in virtually every sense despite the strong waves of tear gas through the building.”
A DJ looks back on 50 years on jazz radio in the nation’s capital
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Rusty Hassan has seen shows and stations come and go during his long career on Washington, D.C., airwaves, and he’s still at it.
Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
‘The World Is Yours’: How the travelogue shaped early public broadcasting
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The globetrotting quality of public media is neither new nor politically neutral and has roots in the earliest days of American broadcasting.
About Current
New history of public broadcasting to include expanded coverage of podcasts, digital media
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Mike Janssen, Digital Editor and Josh Shepperd, Assistant Professor (Catholic University) |
Current is happy to announce an update of our book A History of Public Broadcasting, with a projected publication date of 2021.
Programs/Content
Wisconsin Public Radio’s ‘Earplay’: Before the podcast era, a story-focused series with experimental edge
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The pioneering series reminds us that public radio stations have always been important spaces for the production of creative sounds.