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...names sound as if they would be more at home on sleazy Times Square marquees than in a TV log: I Am Curious (Yellow) and (Blue), The Conjugal Bed, And So to Bed, How to Succeed with Sex and Naked and Free. For thousands of viewers of UHF Channel 79 in Toronto, however, they are as familiar as The Flip Wilson Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Blue Tube | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

...Channel 79 delicately calls its Friday-midnight show The Baby-Blue Movie, underlining the fact that it draws the line at hard-core porn. "We try to come by material that is mildly salacious," says Managing Director Moses Znaimer, "yet still carries a bit of a story line and a touch of production value." Indeed, the Friday-night movie is only a small part of 79's programming, which leans heavily on coverage of community affairs and controversies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Blue Tube | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

WITHIN the last few years the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) has created an audience of dedicated viewers in the United States. One of the major contributors to the growing popularity of public TV is WGBH (Channel 2) in Boston. Situated on Harvard-owned land just south of the Business School, WGBH produces "The Advocates," "ZOOM," "Evening at the Pops," "The French Chef," and distributes nationally the BBC production, "Masterpiece Theater." The station itself is a massive operation turning out not only national PBS shows but also local ones such as "The Reporters," "Catch 44" and "Louis Lyons News and Comment...

Author: By David J. Scheffer, | Title: WGBH: | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

...cutback in Channel 2's national programming production directly damages local programming, which enjoys the benefits of WGBH's large facility and resources. Rice warns, "We will lose both ways. Every time one of our national series goes unfunded, one more way of providing programming for our community is lost...Most of the national series we offer grow out of the Boston community. In a large sense, the programs we produce are a reflection of the cultural richness and intellectual resources of this area. So in an ultimate way everything we do is a community service...

Author: By David J. Scheffer, | Title: WGBH: | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

...money, he said, was to help bankroll whatever plans the U.S. Government might have to "encourage the formation of an anti-Allende coalition in Chile." McCone, who is still a consultant to the CIA, explained that what Geneen had in mind was not to create "chaos," but to channel money "to people who support the principles and programs that the U.S. stands for against the programs of the Allende Marxists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Mission Impossible | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

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