Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
How public broadcasting overcame early setbacks to become a national institution
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Public media’s mission was clear early on, but an emphasis on high-quality programming was needed to earn widespread support.
History of public media
After 50 years, NPR upholds public broadcasting’s founding values
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NPR was incorporated Feb. 26, 1970, marking a new stage in the growth of a public media system rooted in education.
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.