Word: netted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, the industry joke goes, National Educational Television has been little more than a pony-express system, delivering its programs by stages. Beginning next week, NET will leave the horseback era and become almost a network, broadcasting programs simultaneously across the nation for two hours, five nights a week...
...past, taped NET programs were airmailed from a duplication and distribution center in Ann Arbor, Mich., to the first group of the 148 public-TV stations on the list. After the first channels had aired the show, they would mail it to the second group of stations. By the time the show reached the final stations on the list, the delay might be as long as nine weeks. As a result, NET documentaries tended to lack immediacy when they were not totally out of date...
...NET went the slow route simply because it could not afford the broadcast tieline charge. An A. T. & T. link-up for ten hours of weekly programming costs roughly $450,000 a month, or about three-quarters of NET's total monthly budget. But in 1967, Congress passed a law that 1) permitted the telephone system to cut the rate drastically for educational channels and 2) established a Corporation for Public Broadcasting to help...
...lines behind the year before, a loss of at least $7,000,000. Hearst was forced to lower his ad rates, probably losing another $7,000,000. But by cutting its staff from 2,200 employees to 1,200, the paper saved about $4,000,000. The net loss, after adding the cost of vandalism, severance pay and guards' salaries, was about $15 million. Since the Herald-Examiner has been making some $15 million-a-year profit and since circulation, ad linage and ad rates are all starting to rise again, Hearst might even wind up slightly...
...PLAY OF DANIEL (Dec. 25, 8:30-9:45 p.m.). NET's Christmas special with the New York Pro Musica...