Educational Television Facilities Act

Administrative History/Information:

• Signed into law on May 1, 1962 as an amendment to the Communications Act of 1934
• major provisions:
  • authorized appropriations of up to $32 million for five fiscal years for construction grants of educational television facilities:
    • up to 50 percent cost of new facilities
    • up to additional 25 percent total cost of improving existing facilities
    • no state would received more than $1 million
  • recipients included all four types of educational television stations:
    • university
    • school
    • state-agency
    • community corporation
  • specify criteria to use all educational television channels effectively:
    • equitable geographical distribution
    • serving greatest amount of audience
  • federal interference prohibited
• Public Broadcasting PolicyBase document: Educational Television Facilities Act, 1962

Related Collections:

• Dean W. Coston Papers
• Burt Harrison Papers - Interviews:
  • Albert P. Fredette
  • William G. Harley
  • Jerrold Sandler
• Jim Robertson Papers - Interviews:
  • William G. Harley
  • Armand Hunter
  • Jim Robertson

Reference Shelf Materials

Reading Room

Barrett, Marvin, ed.  The Politics of Broadcasting. New York: Crowell, 1973. PN 4888 .T4 B28

Burke, John E. The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. Washington, DC: National Association of Educational Broadcasters, 1973. KF 2805 .Z9 B87

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

Kahn, Frank J., ed. Documents of American Broadcasting. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts 1968. KF 2804 .K3

By Request

Jauch, Fritz.   "A Brief History of Educational Television in the US: Development of NET: Concept of Public TV"   NET   1968. Folder: 210

Keppel, Francis.  "Remarks before Carnegie Commission on Educational Television"   April 15, 1966. Folder: 219

U.S Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Office of Education

• Application for Federal Matching Grant to construct Noncommercial, Educational Television Broadcast Facilities. 1963. Folder: 455
• Educational Television Facilities Program: An Instructional Manual. 1963. Folder: 456
• Educational Television Facilities Program. Program Bulletin
  • Administrative Policy and Practice. 1965. Folder: 697
  • Amendment to Rules and Regulations. 1963-1965. Folder: 698
  • State ETV Agencies. 1963, 1967. Folder: 699

U.S. Senate. 87th Congress, 2nd Session.  Public Law 87-447: Educational Television Facilities Act. May 1, 1962. Folder: 452

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