Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While there is still a great deal of truth in Hutchins' hyperbole, the announcement that WGBH will begin operating an educational TV station on Channel Two sometime in April indicates a growing trend towards adult telecasting. WGBH is confident that many Bostonians accept the intellectually insulting fare of commercial TV only because of resignation; WGBH-FM has been able to treble metropolitan FM set ownership in the past three years...
...programs will appeal mainly to special groups, for it is plain that ballet dancing and ethical debates will not intrigue every listener. "WGBH is a station built for special publics," says its manager, Parker Wheatley. "We would begin to worry if everyone just turned his TV set to Channel Two and left it running all evening...
...listener soon becomes restless--especially if he is not versed in the subject under discussion. And subjects which require demonstration, such as dancing and art, often fall a trifle flat. So when the Federal Communications Commission lifted its famous TV freeze in 1951, WGBH immediately spoke for the educational channel assigned to Boston...
...spoke, too. The Columbia network had been "frozen out" of Boston in 1948, and it made a heart-rending plea to the FCC for a chance at the huge profits of a regular VHF channel in Boston. One of Columbia's public-spirited suggestions was to strip Providence of one of its two TV stations: another proposal would have relegated the Boston educational channel to an unusable UHF range...
...Abraham Lincoln used the personal letter for much of his communication with the press. As an institution, the presidential press conference was not established until Woodrow Wilson was in the White House, and was not energetically exploited until Franklin Roosevelt arrived. Last week the institution switched to a new channel-which would have amazed its founder and fascinated its exploiter...