Noncommercial television began in North Carolina on 8 January 1955, when WUNC-TV, Channel 4 (Chapel Hill) went on the air. The station was licensed to the University of North Carolina system. Planning began in the early 1960s for a statewide network of educational television stations. From 1965 to 2010, twelve stations joined WUNC-TV to form the University of North Carolina Television Network. The University of North Carolina Center for Public Television was established in 1979 to centralize the operation and administration of the network. Records of the University of North Carolina Television Network, 1949-1998, consist of materials related to the operation, administration, and programs of the network and of WUNC-TV prior to the inception of the network. Included are files on the planning and development of the network and its stations; minutes of the meetings of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television; documents related to the network's applications to the Federal Communications Commission for periodic renewal of its broadcast license; and files on the development of programs. Also included are 641 films and 1003 videotapes of programs broadcast by WUNC-TV and the network, including and Administrators who figure prominently in the records include John E. Young, director of WUNC-TV's Chapel Hill studio; John W. (Jake) Dunlop, director of the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television; Wyndham Robertson, vice president of communications of the University of North Carolina system; and Tom Howe, director and general manager of the University of North Carolina Television Network (UNC-TV). Dr. Boyd and the Bible, Stateline, Crossroads on the Hill.
