Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI)

Administrative History/Information:

• nonprofit organization of educators and television producers who pioneered efforts to transmit instructional television before advent of cable and satellite
• began as experiment in 1959 to use DC-6 AB planes to broadcast signal
• operated through grant from Ford Foundation: 1961-1963
• relied on membership fees: 1963-1968
• ceased production and broadcasting, becoming a tape library: 1968-1971
• dissolved: 1971

Related Collections:

• Burt Harrison Papers: James S. Miles Interview
• Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI) Archives
• Jim Robertson Papers - Interviews:
  • Armand Hunter
  • John W. Taylor

Reference Shelf Materials

Reading Room

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

Koenig, Allen E. and Ruane B. Hill. The Farther Vision: Educational Television Today. Madision, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967. LB 1004.7 .K6

Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction. Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction: A Regional Exploration in Education. LaFayette, IN: Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction, 1960. LB 1044.7 .M48

Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing. Teaching with Videotape: A Study of a New ETV Tool that Mirrors Teaching. St. Paul, 1962. LB 1044.7 .M56

Smith, Mary Howard, ed. Using Television in the Classroom. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961. LB 0144.7 .M5

By Request

"New Focus on ETV: A Progress Report on Classroom Television." Folder: 331

Collections in Other Repositories:

• Phil Lange Papers
• I. Keith Tyler Papers

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