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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public TV: NETwork at Last | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...network's Sunday offering, as in the past, will be Public Broadcast Laboratory's weekly program. Monday is NET Journal, or documentary night. Tuesday will see NET Festival, a first-rate cultural series. Wednesday will be split among the monthly consumer series (Your Dollar's Worth), biweekly news backgrounders by New York Times staffers and various science programs. Thursday will feature NET Playhouse, a showcase for new U.S. playwrights and BBC productions. Extra time periods will be filled by specials, repeats and regional programming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public TV: NETwork at Last | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

Pilot Comedies. Results of this de-escalation should show more plainly next season. ABC President Leonard Goldenson told the violence commission that only one of the 30 series now under development by his network is an "adventure" show. CBS's senior programming vice president, Mike Dann, agrees that "the number of action shows is down drastically in the pilot area." His NBC counterpart, Mort Werner, also anticipates "more comedy and less action." The networks' Hollywood suppliers are, of course, reacting accordingly. Universal Studios is not making any more westerns on speculation, but is concentrating on three new doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Pacification by Attrition | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...masochism and murder (according to a Christian Science Monitor survey, the series averaged a violent incident every 31 minutes). It will undoubtedly go off after this season, but not necessarily because it is the most violent show on the air. A likelier reason: the violence it does to the network's ratings; The Avengers ranks 69th among the 73 prime-time entertainment series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Pacification by Attrition | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...attempting to find a meaning in each day's events. His competition in the 1940s was formidable-H. V. Kaltenborn, Edward R. Murrow, Gabriel Heatter-yet Swing commanded at least as large a following and salary (more than $150,000 in 1942), first on the Mutual Broadcasting Network and subsequently on the now defunct Blue Network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 3, 1969 | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

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