Public Service Satellite Consortium (PSSC)

Administrative History/Information:

• Incorporated 1975 by a group of nonprofit service organizations including:
  • health-medical organizations
  • higher education
  • government agencies
  • public broadcasting organizations: NPR, PBS, CPB
  • Fulfilled its mission in public telecommunications on behalf of non-profit, public service users in 1991 and dissolved

Collections:

• Lee C. Frischknecht Papers
• Burt Harrison Papers-Interviews:
  • John P. Witherspoon
  • Elizabeth L. Young
• Frank W. Norwood Papers
• Harold E. Wigren Papers

Reference Shelf Materials:

Reading Room

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)

President's Task Force on Communications Policy. "Final Report: Established Pursuant to the President's Message on Communications Policy, August 14, 1967." 1968. HE 7781 .U65 1968

Public Service Satellite Consortium. Public Television Service in Rural America. 1978. HE 8700.8 .P82

By Request

Public Service Satellite Consortium.

• Annual Report. 1990. Folder: 373
• Newsletter. 1980-1983 [incomplete]. Serials
• Report to Members. 1980 Serials

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