WQED (Pittsburgh, PA)

Administrative History/Information:

• Founded in 1954
• First community-owned television station
• Production center of national programs for the PBS
• Website: http://www.wqed.org

Related Collections:

• James Robertson Papers - Interviews:
  • Rhea Sikes
  • Donald Taverner
  • John F. White
• John F. White Papers

Reference Shelf Materials

By Request

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

Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Turned-On Crisis: A Summary of a Nationwide Television Experiment on the Problem of Drug Abuse. 1971. Folder: 102

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

Education on the Air. 1941-1960. Serials

"Educational TV: What it is...where it's going" Changing Times, 1963. Folder: 139

Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy, Penn State University. Project Lifelong Learning. Folder: 678

"PBS Drums Up Nearly $5 Million in Drive," Broadcasting, March 24, 1975. Folder: 345

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