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WTTW (Chicago, IL)
Administrative History/Information:
- Local Chicago educational and cultural organizations joined together to promote the idea of a non-commercial channel for Chicago: 1953
- First program, "Report to the Teachers", broadcast: September 6, 1955
- Working with Chicago's Board of Education, WTTW became the first station to televise college courses for credit via "TV College": 1956
- WTTW became involved with the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI): 1961
- WTTW has won many awards including: 92 local Emmy Awards, 15 Corporation for Public Broadcasting Awards, and 2 George Foster Peabody Awards: 1985-1994
- WTTW is owned by Window to the World Communications, Inc. which is a not-for-profit corporation governed by 45 trustees representing the greater Chicago community
- Website: http://www.networkchicago.com/wttw/
- James Day Papers
- Burt Harrison Papers: James Robertson Interview
- Jim Robertson Papers - Interviews:
- Roger P. Smith Papers
Reading Room
Adler, Richard and Walter S. Baer. Aspen Notebook: Cable and Continuing Education. New York: Praeger, 1973. BCAST REF LC 6574 .A34
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
Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Turn-On Crisis: A Summary of a Nationwide Television Experiment on the Problem of Drug Abuse. 1971. Folder: 102
Dorfman, Ron. "John Douglas Callaway is the Best There is, Yes!" The Chicagoan, August 1974. Folder: 123
Education on the Air. 1941-1960. Serials
Grafton, Samuel. "Educational Television: Boon/Who Watches ETV and Why/Why ETV Worries Commercial TV," TV Guide, October 1962. Folder: 170
Mark, Norman. "Seale's Controversial Interview," Chicago Daily News, August 7, 1970: p. 43. Folder: 644
Piette, Ruth. Gregg Shorthand. Folder: 053
WTTW
- The Dial, Septembe 1980. Folder: 769
- Programs in National Distribution and Development: 1980/81. 1981. Folder: 570
