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Public Broadcasting Timeline: 1950-1959
1950:
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1951:
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1952:
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1953:
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Alabama Educational
Television Commission is founded
- Kenneth Christiansen: Educational television consultant, Southern Regional Education Board (SERB) (1953-1956)
- James Day: President and General Manager, KQED (San Francisco, CA) (1953-1969)
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Raymond
D. Hurlbert: President, Alabama
Educational Television Commission (1953-1955)
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Jansky &
Bailey is incorporated
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KUHT (Houston,
TX) begins
- James L. Loper: Assistant and Acting Director of the Bureau of Broadcasting, Arizona State University (1953-1959)
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John C.
Schwarzwalder:
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Established nation's first educational television station, KUHT
(Houston, TX)
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Administered Department of Radio and Television, University of Houston
(1953-1956)
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Developed and produced most of programs on KUHT
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WETA (Washington,
DC) begins
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Local Chicago educational and cultural organizations join together to promote
a non- commercial channel (early WTTW
(Chicago, IL) history)
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1954:
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KQED (San
Francisco, CA) begins
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Educational
Television and Radio Center moves to Ann Arbor, MI with Harry K. Newburn
as president; also begins programming
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Joseph S.
Iseman is involved with public
television enterprises in the greater New York City area as partner
in the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison (1954-1980)
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Jim Robertson:
Director of Programming, WTTW
(Chicago, IL) (1954-1959)
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WHYY-FM (Philadelphia,
PA/Wilmington, DE) begins
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WIUC changes call letters to WILL-FM
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WNYC-TV (New
York, NY) begins
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WHA-TV (Madison,
WI) begins
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WOI-TV (Ames,
IA) begins
- WQED (Pittsburgh, PA) begins
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1955:
- Edwin G. Cohen: Head of the National Educational Television Film Service (NET Film Service) (1955-1958)
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John C. Crabbe:
One of the first Program Associates at the Educational
Television and Radio Center, Ann Arbor
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Barton
L. Griffith: Director of Distribution and Station Relations, Educational
Television and Radio Center: (1955-1957)
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Raymond
D. Hurlbert: General Manager, Alabama Educational Television Network
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Joint Committee
on Educational Television changes name to Joint Council on Educational
Television
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Delta-Sierra Educational Television Corporation and Northern California
Educational Television merged to form Central California Educational Television
(CCET) - history of KVIE
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Chalmers
Marquis: producer/director, director of programming, WTTW
(1955-1964)
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Frank W.
Norwood: Assistant to Keith Tyler, director of the Institute
for Education by Radio-Television, Ohio State University (1955-1956)
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David C.
Stewart: Production consultant, JCET
(1955-1960)
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Albany Medical College starts two-way radio conferences: beginning of WAMC
(Albany, NY)
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WGBH-TV (Boston,
MA) begins
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John F. White:
General Manager, WQED (Pittsburgh, PA) (1955-1958)
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WOI-FM
begins stereo broadcasts
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WTTW (Chicago,
IL)'s first program "Report to the Teachers" begins
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1956:
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1957:
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1958:
- Jack M. Burke: Manager, KSAC (Manhattan, KS) (1958-c.1992)
- Edwin G. Cohen: Program Associate, Educational Television and Radio Center (1958-1962)
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John C. Crabbe:
General Manager, KVIE
(Stockton, CA) (1958-1969)
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Educational
Television and Radio Center moves to NY and changes name to National
Educational Television and Radio Center (NETRC)
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KVIE (Stockton,
CA) begins
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Arthur A. Paul:
production intern and announcer, WTTW
(Chicago, IL) (1958-1960)
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Frederick
M. Remley: Technical Director of Broadcasting, University of Michigan
(1958-1988)
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WAMC-FM (Albany,
NY) begins
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John F. White:
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FCC approves
transfer of WATV to National Telefilm Associates, renaming station to WNTA
(early history of WNET)
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1959:
- Kenneth Christiansen: General Manager, WUFT (Gainesville, FL) (1959-1979)
- Representatives from WGBH (Boston, MA), WENH (Durham, NH), the Massachusetts and New Hampshire State Departments of Education and the Ford Foundation meet to discuss interconnecting stations in the Northeast. Beginnings of the Eastern Educational Network.
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Burt Harrison,
while working as Station Manager for KWSU (Pullman, WA), serves on various
boards (1959-1976):
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Jansky &
Bailey becomes subsidiary of Atlantic Research Corporation
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Midwest Program
on Airborne Television Instruction begins
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Frederick
M. Remley: joined Video Tape Engineering Committee of the National
Educational Television and Radio Center
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Jim Robertson:
Director of Station Relations, National
Educational Television and Radio Center (1959-1962)
- Harold E. Wigren serves as coordinator of CINE (Council on International Non-theatrical Events) (1959-1965)
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