Public television's roots oral history project, 1979-1982.

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Public television's roots oral history project, 1979-1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701435

Fifty-six interviews with transcripts from an oral history project on the beginnings of non-commercial educational television, conducted by James and Anabel Robertson with public TV pioneers from the 1950s and 1960s, and funded primarily by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The interviews concern the ideological split between proponents of educational television and proponents of public television, the primitive conditions under which some of the early stations began, problems of early programming, efforts to interest professional educators in the medium, the role of the Federal Communications Commission, and other topics. They emphasize the dreams the interviewees had for their field and how they feel public television today measures up to those dreams. Interviewees include Gerard Appy, George Arms, James Armsey, Roy Barthold, Robert J. Blakely, Frederick Breitenfeld, Jr., Gertrude Broderick, Elizabeth Campbell, Everett Case, Henry J. Cauthen, Jr., Kenneth Christiansen, Marcus Cohn, Norman Cousins, John C. Crabbe, David Davis, James Day, Lee DuBridge, Keith Engar, C. Scott Fletcher, Lee Frischknecht, Martha Gable, Hyman Goldin, G. H. Griffiths, Hartford N. Gunn, William Harley, Robert Hudson, Richard Hull, Arthur Hungerford, Armand Hunter, Raymond Hurlbert, Rosel Hyde, James R. Killian, Jr., James L. Loper, James Macandrew, Jack McBride, William McCarter, Harold B. McCarty, Leonard Marks, Chalmers Marquis, Newton Minow, Stanley Neustadt, Morris S. Novik, Kenneth Oberholtzer, Jonathan Rice, James Robertson, Frank Schooley, Rhea Sikes, Harry J. Skornia, Ralph Steetle, Loren Stone, Donald Taverner, John W. Taylor, I. Keith Tyler, Parker Wheatley, John F. White, and Raymond Wittcoff.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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