Carnegie Commission on Educational Television

Administrative History/Information:

• Called into existence at the First National Conference on Long-Range Financing of Educational Television Stations in December 1964
• Financed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Mission: study the role of noncommercial educational television in society
• Published landmark report, Public Television: A Program for Action on January 26, 1967
• Public Broadcasting PolicyBase Documents:
  • Summary of recommendations
  • Membership, Preface and Introductory Note
  • Letter from E.B. White to Carnegie I

Related Collections:

• C. Scott Fletcher Papers
• Jim Robertson Papers - Interviews:
  • Gerard (Jerry) Appy
  • Everett Case
  • Norman Cousins
  • Lee A. DuBridge
  • C. Scott Fletcher
  • Hyman Goldin
  • Hartford N. Gunn
  • James R. Killian, Jr.
  • Leonard Marks
  • Jack McBride
  • William (Bill) McCarter
  • Jim Robertson

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Reference Shelf Materials

Reading Room

Avery, Robert K., ed. Public Service Broadcasting in a Multi-Channel Environment. New York: Longman, 1993. HD 8689.4 .P83

Blakely, Robert J. The People's Instrument: A Philosophy of Programming for Public Television. Washington, Public Affairs Press, 1971. BCAST PN 1992.8 .P8 B47

Brown, Les. "PTV: Is Everybody Happy? Striking a Blow for Status Quo," NAEB Journal. Vol. 26, No. 2 (March-April 1967): pp. 39-40 Periodicals

Bundy, McGeorge. "Educational TV: A National Awakening," NAEB Journal. Vol. 26, No. 3 (May-June 1967): pp. 3-8 Periodicals

Burke, John E.

• "The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967: Part I: Historical Origins and the Carnegie Commission," Educational Broadcasting Review. Vol. 6, No. 2 (April 1972): 105-119 Periodicals
• The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. Washington, DC: National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 1973. KF 2805 .Z9 B87
• "The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967: Part II: The Carnegie Commission Report, Development of Legislation, and the Second National Conference on Long-Range Financing," Educational Broadcasting Review. Vol. 6, No. 3 (June 1972): pp. 178-212 Periodicals

Carnegie Commission on Educational Television. Public Television: A Program for Action. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

• BCAST LC 6571 .C35
• 374.265 C (NAB Books)

Cater, Douglass and Michael J. Nyhan, eds. The Future of Public Broadcasting. New York: Praeger, 1976.

• BCAST HE 8700.8 .F87
• 384.574 C (NAB Books)

Coase, R.H. and Edward W. Barrett. Educational TV: Who Should Pay? Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy, 1965. BCAST LB 1044.7 .C54

Gould, Jack. "What's Happening in 'Public TV'?" NAEB Journal. Vol. 26, No. 2 (March-April 1967): pp. 34-39 Periodicals

Killian, J.R. "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities," NAEB Journal. Vol. 26, No. 2 (March-April 1967): pp. 3-14 Periodicals

Marks, Richard D. "Restructuring Public Broadcasting," Public Telecommunications Review. Vol. 4, No. 6 (November-December 1976): pp. 6-19 Periodicals

Miller, Paul A. "A Year of Decision," NAEB Journal. Vol. 26, No. 1 (January-February 1967): pp. 20-27 Periodicals

Moore, Richard O. "Public Television Programming and the Future: A Radical Approach," Television Quarterly, Vol. XIII, No. 3 (Fall 1976): 5-17. Periodicals

NAEB, "Comment from Washington: Beyond the Carnegie Commission," Public Telecommunications Review. Vol. 2, No. 4 (August 1974): p. 11 Periodicals

Shayon, Robert Lewis. "ETV's Historic Opportunity," NAEB Journal. Vol. 26, No. 2 (March-April 1967): pp. 41-44 Periodicals

By Request

Arthur D. Little, Inc. "Estimated Cost of a Nationwide Educational Television System: Report to the Carnegie Commission on ETV." 1967. Folder: 018

Carlson, Robert A. "Educator vs. Broadcasting in the Development of ETV: A Brief History of ETV in the US" Educational Technology, July 1971: 13-16. Folder: 043

Cater, Douglass. "The Politics of Public TV" Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 1972: 8-15. Folder: 046

Duscha, Julia.   "Public TV: why still a stepchild?"  Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 1971: 8-14. Folder: 128

Loper, James L. and Thomas J. McDermott, Jr. "ETV Bargaining Management View." Reprinted from Broadcast and Bargaining: Labor Relations in Radio and Television, 1970: pp. 185-192. Folder: 780

Singer, Arthur L., Jr. "The Carnegie Report Revisited" Educational Broadcasting Review, August 1971. Folder: 412

Related Collections in Other Repositories:

• Carnegie Commission on Educational Television Records
• Lee A. DuBridge Papers
• James Rhyne Killian Papers

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