[Interview with Ward Chamberlin] [sound recording] / Ward Chamberlin ; [interviewed by] James Day, New York City, 11/20/96. 1996.

Chamberlin, Ward

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Gunn, Hartford N., Jr., 1927-1986

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Hartford N. Gunn, Jr., was the founding president of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Gunn was born in Port Washington, N.Y. in 1926. He graduated from Harvard University with an MBA in 1951. Shortly after graduating, he began working as the general manager of WBGH-TV in Boston; at that point, it was an FM radio station, and Gunn helped develop and expand its television service. He left WBGH in 1970 to become the first president of PBS. Although he was plagued by low budgets, he helped...

Iselin, John Jay

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John Jay Iselin, descendent of the Supreme Court Justice John Jay, was born in Greenville, South Carolina in 1933. He left South Carolina to pursue his education at Harvard, where he received both his Bachelor's Degree. He received the prestigious Marshall Scholarship which funded his course of study at Cambridge, where he received his Master's Degree before returning to Harvard to pursue his PhD in government, which he received in 1964. After graduation he worked as a j...

Friendly, Fred W.

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Radio and television journalist; interviewee b. 1915. From the description of Reminiscences of Fred W. Friendly : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122362077 From the description of Reminiscences of Fred W. Friendly : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513857 New York City native Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998) was a radio and television producer and...

WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)

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Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

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AFS International/Intercultural Programs

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Founded by AFS drivers in 1946 as American Field Service International Scholarships. The program seeks to promote world understanding through student exchange programs. Its headquarters are in New York, and it has offices throughout the world. From the description of Records, [ca. 1946-1986] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155490891 ...

Pace, Frank, Jr., 1912-1988

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Lawyer, government official, and corporation executive. From the description of Papers, 1946-1953. (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70946860 ...

Burns, Ken, 1953-

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Day, James, 1918-2008

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Broadcasting executive and consultant. President and General Manager, KQED 1953-1969; President, National Educational Television 1969-1970; President, WNET 1970-1973. From the description of James Day papers, 1952-1996 and undated^ (bulk 1969-1992) (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 48460307 James Day was born on December 22, 1918, in Alameda, California. He earned an AB in Economics from the University of California...

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...

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

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WNET began broadcasting in 1948 in New York as WATV. It become WNET in 1970 and focused on educational and public television, working with PBS until 2003, when it merged with WLIW on Long Island. From the guide to the WNET transcripts for James Stewart : A Wonderful Life, 1986, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) THIRTEEN WNET is a member of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) parent network, WNET.ORG, the public media provider for New York City. Covering the t...

Macy, John W., 1917-1986

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