National Public Affairs Center for Television (NPACT)

Administrative History/Information:

• Created to handle coverage of national public affairs notably with Washington Week in Review: 1972
• Merged with WETA: 1973
• Produced fifty-one days of gavel-to-gavel Watergate hearings: 1973
• Anchors included Sander Vanocur and Robin MacNeil

Related Collections:

• Corporation for Public Broadcasting Archives: John W. Macy Files
• James Day Papers
• James Karayn Papers
• Frank W. Lloyd Papers
• Jim Robertson Papers - Interviews: Donald Taverner

Reference Shelf Materials

Reading Room

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

Carden, John. "A Conversation with Henry Loomis," Television Quarterly, Vol. XII, No. 1 (Fall 1974): 37-44. Periodicals

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)

By Request

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

Cheney, Lynne. "Uncivil Wars." The Washingtonian, February 1986. Folder: 052

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

Laurent, Lawrence. "Vanocur-MacNeil Start a New Kind of News." TV Channels, The Wasington Post, September 3, 1972. Folder: 233

Lyle, Jack. "Viewers of Public Affairs Programs on WETA-TV: Spring 1973." Winter 1974Folder: 533

Macy, John W. "Is Anybody Watching," Television Quarterly, Vol. XI, No. 3 (Spring 1974): 44-47. Periodicals

"NPACT: National Public Affairs Center for Television." 1971-1972. Folder: 318

Thiemann, David. "The Spirit of 26." Washingtonian. Folder: 442

"Watergate: A Very Public Affair." Image, September 1973. Folder: 492

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