Armand Hunter

Interviewed by: Jim Robertson
June 2, 1981

Biographical Information

• Initially pursued an academic career in speech and theater
• Involved in producing early public service television for WFIL-TV (Philadelphia, PA)
• Struggled with the inadequacies of UHF while at Michigan State
• Avid interest in potentials of educational television
• Armand Hunter died May 1989.

People

• Frieda Hennock
• John Schwarzwalder
• Ralph Steetle
• I. Keith Tyler

Topics

• educational television
• Educational Television and Radio Center (ETRC)
• Educational Television Facilities Act (ETFA)
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• Ford Foundation
• instructional television
• Joint Committee on Educational Television (JCET)
• Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI)
• National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB)
• Penn State Conference, April 21-24, 1952
• UHF
• WFIL-TV (Philadelphia, PA)

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