Donley F. Feddersen papers

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Donley F. Feddersen papers

1956-1978 and undated (majority 1956-1964)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1575

Donley F. Feddersen began his career in public broadcasting as an instructor at Northwestern University in Illinois in 1944. Later, beginning in 1956, Feddersen decided to devote all of his creative energies solely to the design and production of series for national educational television. That year, he joined the National Educational Television and Radio Center as a Program Associate, and a liaison between the NET and NBC. A few years later, when the NETRC moved to New York from Ann Arbor, Feddersen became the director of Television Programming. In this post, he designed the program schedule. Finally, in 1965, he joined the faculty of Indiana University as Chairman of the Department of Radio and TV, and general manger and director of station WTIU. The collection documents Feddersen's work for NET as well as the conflict over programming control between the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting Service.

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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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Thornton, Basil.

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National Educational Television and Radio Center.

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National Educational Television and Radio Center (NETRC) was established in 1952 as Educational Television and Radio Center, and renamed in 1958. NETRC was located in New York City, New York. Most of their operations were taken over by the newly established Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 1970, and the organization was renamed WNET. From the description of National Educational Television and Radio Center publicity photographs, circa 1950s-1960s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: ...

Thornton, Basil

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Howard, Brice

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting

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Founded in 1967, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is the steward of the U.S. federal government’s investment in public broadcasting and the nation’s largest single source of funding for public radio, television, and related services. CPB distributes funding to locally-owned public radio and television stations and ensures universal access to non-commercial-high quality content and telecommunications services. The CPB does not own or operate any television or radio broadcasting netwo...

Feddersen, Donley F., 1915-1979.

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Public broadcasting executive. NBC-Northwestern Radio-Television Institute director, 1947-1956; National Educational Television liaison to NBC, 1956-1958; WTTW-TV (Chicago) program manager, 1958-1959; National Educational Television and Radio Center director of television programming, 1960-1964; WTIV (Indianapolis) general manager, 1965-1979. From the description of Donley F. Feddersen papers, 1956-1978 and undated (bulk 1956-1964). (University of Maryland Li...

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

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