Jim Karayn papers

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Jim Karayn papers

1960-1981 and undated (majority 1971-1980)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1558

James D. Karayn, Jr. (1933-1996) was the driving force behind the gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings and live coverage of the president’s annual State of the Union address. In 1976, he was instrumental in bringing presidential debates back to television. Karayn was the executive producer and chief of National Educational Television's Washington bureau from 1965 to 1971. He founded the National Public Affairs Center for Television (NPACT) in 1971, serving as its president until 1975. From 1977 to 1983, he was president and general manager of WHYY-TV and WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware. The collection contains newspaper clippings and reports regarding conflicts between the Nixon administration and public broadcasting, the history of National Educational Television, and the merger between the National Public Affairs Center for Television and the Greater Washington Educational Television Association.

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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National Public Affairs Center for Television.

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League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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National Educational Television and Radio Center.

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WHYY (Television station : Philadelphia, Pa.)

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WHYY first began radio broadcasting in 1954 and soon expanded to include entertainment, educational, cultural,and news television broacasts. WHYY offices in Philadelphia, Pa. and Wilmington, Delaware provide programming for southeastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and South Jersey. From the description of WHYY War Letters collection , 1861-1972. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 214330910 ...

National Educational Televisionand Radio Center

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Karayn, Jim, 1933-1996

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Broadcasting executive. Executive producer and chief, National Educational Television's Washington bureau, 1965-1971; founder and president, National Public Affairs Center for Television, 1971-1975; Executive Vice-President, Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, 1971-1975; Creator and project director, 1976 Presidential debates; President and general manager, WHYY, 1977-1983; Founder and President, Karayn and Company, Inc., 1983-1996. ...