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Public Broadcasting Timeline: 1970-1979
1970:
- Edmund F. Ball: public member, Executive Board, National Association of Educational Broadcasters (1970- 1973)
- Robert D.B. Carlisle: Director of Educational Projects, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
- James Day: President, WNET (1970-1973)
- Eastern Educational Network (EEN) becomes Eastern Educational Television Network (EEN)
- Lee C. Frischknecht: Director of Network Affairs, National Public Radio (1970-1972)
- George Geesey becomes Director of Operations (and Engineering) for National Public Radio (NPR)
- Presley D. Holmes: Director, Educational Television Stations division of NAEB (1970-1973)
- Samuel C.O. Holt: Coordinator of Programming, Public Broadcasting Service (1970-1973)
- KBPS becomes a charter member of National Public Radio
- Chalmers Marquis: Executive Vice President, National Association of Educational Broadcasters
- Richard J. Meyer: Vice President, Education Division, WNET (1970-1972)
- National Association of Educational Television begins
- National Educational Radio Network is transferred to National Public Radio
- Boards of National Educational Television (NET) and WNDT (New York) merge (formation of WNET)
- National Friends of Public Broadcasting incorporates July 27th.
- National Public Radio incorporates
- Arthur A. Paul: executive vice president and general manager, KVIE (Sacramento, CA) (1970-1979)
- Donald R. Quayle: first president, National Public Radio (1970-1973)
- acting secretary, Board of Directors
- Manager of Station Relations
1971:
- Mary Aladj: Public Information, Public Broadcasting Service (1971-1978)
- Elizabeth Campbell: Vice President, Community Affairs, GWETA (1971-)
- Children's Television Workshop begins The Electric Company (1971-1983)
- David L. Crippens: various positions at WQED (Pittsburgh, PA) (1971-1973)
- Department of Audio-Visual Instruction (DAVI) separates from the National Education Association and changes its name to the Association for Educational Telecommunications and Technology (AECT)
- Kenneth J. Garry: various broadcasting positions at WUSI/WSUI (1971-1996)
- Earle H. Gillis: Educational consultant, Ohio Department of Education (1971-1975)
- James Karayn, Jr: founder, President, National Public Affairs Center for Television (1971-1975)
- Frank W. Lloyd: General Counsel, National Public Affairs Center for Television (1971-1973)
- James L. Loper: President and general manager, KCET (1971-1976)
- Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction dissolves
- David S. Prowitt becomes WNET-TV Program Division Washington Bureau Chief (1971-1973)
- PBS adopts Educational Television Service/Program Service and changes name to Public Television Library
- Wisconsin Educational Communications Board becomes an independent state agency (history of WHA
1972:
- Lee C. Frischknecht: Vice President, National Public Radio (1972-1973)
- Luke F. Lamb: Dean, Educational Communications; Chair, Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
- Richard J. Meyer: Manager, KCTS (Seattle, WA) (1972-1982)
- National Public Affairs Center for Television begins
- Zoel J. Parenteau: Executive Vice President (1972-1973), General Manager and President, KPTS (Wichita, KS) (1972-1996)
- Bill Reed: Board of Directors, Public Broadcasting Service (1972-1974)
- Ralph B. Rogers: Chair, board of lay chairman to examine possibilities of long-range financing for public broadcasting (1972-1973)
- David C. Stewart: Director, National Program Projects, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1972-1980)
1973:
- Edmund F. Ball: joins various PBS boards
- Martin P. Busch: Chair, Board of Directors, PBS (1973-1978)
- Edwin G. Cohen: Executive Director, Agency for Instructional Television (1973-1984)
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting Service resolves program production control conflict
- David L. Crippens: Director, Educational Services, KCET (Los Angeles, CA) (1973-1977)
- James Day: Resigns as President of WNET
- Lee C. Frischknecht: President, National Public Radio (1973-1978)
- Presley D. Holmes: Director, Planning and Research, Public Broadcasting Service (1973-1974)
- Alan F. Lewis: Supervisor of Acquisitions, Public Television Library (1973-1977)
- Donald R. McNeil: Participated in the creation of PBS, and was elected to the board
- NAEB dissolves two divisions:
- Educational Television Stations: merges with the newly reorganized Public Broadcasting Service
- National Educational Radio: becomes the Association of Public Radio Stations
- National Educational Television dissolves
- Community broadcasters meet in Seattle - history of National Federation of Community Broadcasters
- National Public Affairs Center for Television
- merged with WETA
- Produced fifty-one days of gavel-to-gavel Watergate hearings
- National Instructional Television Center incorporates as the Agency for Instructional Television (predecessor of the Agency for Instructional Technology)
- Zoel J. Parenteau: President, KPTS (Wichita, KS): (1973-1996)
- Public Television Library moves to Washington, DC
- Donald R. Quayle: Senior Vice President for Broadcasting, CPB (1973-1977)
- Jim Robertson begins a public broadcasting consulting firm, Robertson Associates
- Ralph B. Rogers: Chief executive officer, Public Broadcasting Service (1973-1978)
- Gerald Slater: Vice President, Broadcasting, Public Broadcasting Service (1973-1975)
- Jeane R. Young: Works for the Public Broadcasting Service's Division of Public Records
1974:
- Douglas F. Bodwell: Director, Office of Education, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1974-1998)
- Christopher Buchanan: writes senior thesis "The Struggle for the Soul of Public Television"
- David M. Davis works for the Ford Foundation's Office of Communications (1974-1979)
- Lee C. Frischknecht: President, National Public Radio (1973-1978)
- Presley D. Holmes: Vice President, Programming, National Public Radio (1974-1977)
- Keith W. Mielke: Serves as Chairman of the Research Advisory Committee for Children's Television Workshop's production of Feeling Good (1974-1975)
- Bill Reed: Director of Station Relations, Public Broadcasting Service (1974-1978)
- Warren F. Seibert: consultant to National Public Radio
- WHA-FM (Madison, WI) becomes WERN: WHA Radio Association founded
- Harold E. Wigren serves on Board of Directors of the Public Service Satellite Consortium
1975:
- Earle H. Gillis: Vice President of Development, WCET (Cincinnati, OH) (1975-1988)
- James D. Karayn, Jr.: Worked with the League of Women Voters as the Creator and Project Director of the 1976 Presidential Debates (1975-1976)
- National Federation of Community Broadcasters begins.
- Public Service Satellite Consortium incorporated
- Gerald Slater: Executive Vice-President, WETA (1975-1989)
- Elizabeth L. Young: Executive Director, Kansas Public Telecommunications Commission (1975-1976)
1976:
- William M. Brish: Consultant, Appalachian satellite project (1976-1987)
- Representatives from the boards of CPB and NPR as well as concerned citizens approach the Carnegie Corporation to request a new study of public broadcasting - beginnings of the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting
- John C. Crabbe: General Manager, KTSC (Pueblo, CO) (1976-1981)
- George Geesey is assigned to NPR's Satellite Interconnection System Project Office (SISPO)
- James L. Loper: President and chief executive officer, KCET (1976-1982)
- Robert M. Reed:
- General Manager, KUED (Salt Lake City UT) (1976-1978)
- Member, Board of Governors, Pacific Mountain Network (1976-1979)
- John C. Schwarzwalder: Station Manager, KOKH-TV (Oklahoma) (1976-1978)
- Elizabeth L. Young: Director, Ohio State University's Telecommunications Center (1976-1979)
1977:
- Association of Public Radio Stations merges with National Public Radio
- Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting meets (1977-1978)
- David L. Crippens: Vice President, Educational Services, KCET (Los Angeles, CA) (1977-1983)
- Samuel C.O. Holt: Senior Vice President, Programming, National Public Radio (1977-1983)
- James Karayn, Jr : President, General Manager, WHYY (Philadelphia, PA/Wilmington, DE) (1977-1983)
- Alan F. Lewis: Manager, Public Television Library (1977-1978)
- Frank W. Lloyd: various consulting and administrative jobs during Carter administration including authoring the Public Telecommunications Financing Act of 1978 (1977-1981)
- Frank M. Mankiewicz: President, National Public Radio (1977-1983)
- Keith W. Mielke: Executive Director of Research, Children's Television Workshop (1977-1997)
- Robert M. Reed: Director, Rocky Mountain Corporation of Public Broadcasting (1977-1979)
- Frederick M. Remley: Successfully encouraged members of the Video Tape Recording Committee of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineering (SMPTE) to reach agreement on standard for one-inch video tape
- John C. Schwarzwalder: President, DBLS, Inc: nonprofit corporation formed to establish, operate and maintain nonprofit educational television and radio stations in Austin, TX (1977-1985)
1978:
- Mary Aladj: Publicity coordinator for national productions, WETA (1978-1991)
- Zoel J. Parenteau: Board of Directors, Public Broadcasting Service (1978-1980)
- Bill Reed: Senior Vice President, Video Marketing Division, Public Broadcasting Service (1978-1980)
- Robert M. Reed: member, PBS Board of Directors (1978-1979)
- John C. Schwarzwalder: Executive consultant, Twin City Area PTV Corporation
- WILL-TV begins receiving programs by satellite
- Jeane R. Young: Director, Television for Learning Project (June-December 1978)
1979:
- Association for Public Broadcasting: begins
- Carnegie Commission the Future of Public Broadcasting publishes findings and recommendations in A Public Trust.
- Children's Television Workshop begins 3-2-1 Contact
- Margaret Chisholm: Vice President, National Association of Public Television Stations' executive committee (1979-1983)
- Patsy P. Layne: Joins United States Foreign Service as an Education Officer with the United States Agency for International Development. Helps develop educational radio projects in Liberia, Kenya, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Lesotho
- Alan F. Lewis: Director, Broadcast and Archive Services, Public Television Library
- Donald R. McNeil: President, University of Mid-America: (1979-1982)
- Richard J. Meyer: Member, PBS Board of Directors (1979-1984)
- National Public Radio begins satellite programming
- Donald R. Quayle: Vice President for Administration, WETA (1979-1989)
- Frederick M. Remley: Representing the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineering (SMPTE) receives Emmy citation
- Jim Robertson begins an oral history project in which he interviewed 55 pioneers in the field of public broadcasting - basis for book Televisionaries
- Elizabeth L. Young: President, Public Service Satellite Consortium (1979-1984)
- Wisconsin Public Radio Association founded - history of WHA
