Current (https://current.org/series/rewind/)
This series features scholars of media history looking back at both familiar and lesser-known chapters in public broadcasting’s evolution. “Rewind” is presented in partnership with the Radio Preservation Task Force, an initiative of the Library of Congress.
A group of bilingual radio stations founded in the late 1970s “helped distinguish Spanish-language and bilingual broadcasting as a form of advocacy.”
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.”
“The tone of operations was business as usual in virtually every sense despite the strong waves of tear gas through the building.”
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.
The globetrotting quality of public media is neither new nor politically neutral and has roots in the earliest days of American broadcasting.
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.
The pioneering series reminds us that public radio stations have always been important spaces for the production of creative sounds.
The National Public Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland reflect an inherent dedication to preservation.
To guarantee the show’s success, its creators had to win over a diverse group of educational broadcasters in the late ’60s.
In the late 1970s, the critiques by CPB’s Minority Task Force pushed NPR to increase minority employment and training programs and served as a case study in why racial diversity in decision-making bodies matters.