Word: pbl
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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PUBLIC BROADCAST LABORATORY. A $10 million experimental series dedicated to the proposition that noncommercial television can provide a worthwhile alternative to commercial TV, PBL programs two hours of culture and public affairs each Sunday night...
...Manhattan's NBC news studios, leased for the premiere of the Public Broadcast Laboratory (TIME, Nov. 10), Executive Director Av Westin last week found a note left by the regular occupants. "The moneymen of Huntley-Brinkley," the message read, "hope you do-gooders do good. Good luck!" PBL will need some luck; it didn't do so good...
...PBL came most powerfully to life during a "confrontation"-a free-for-all discussion of racial antagonisms in which "someone in that crowd represents you." A group of 100 unrehearsed whites and Negroes gathered in a Chicago studio to blast away at one another. A Negro evangelical preacher reported that "our program is to try to solve the problem with love." "When he says Christian love," snorted Black Revolutionary Russ Meek, "he means Uncle Tomism! You're a disgrace to the race!" A Negro adolescent follower of Meek said: "I'm for violence, because we have pleaded...
Some of the southern stations in PBL's 119-station line-up opted out of the first show in advance, presumably because they were suspicious of the tone it would take. But most of them were expected back by this week. Fred Friendly, who as TV consultant to the Ford Foundation helped get the project started, confessed that he was "very disappointed" with the first broadcast. But, he added, quite properly: "Wait till next week-that's the great thing about...
...thinking, the $9,000,000 is a one-shot grant rather than part of a permanent annual endowment that would insulate the Public Television Corporation from yearly budget screening and perhaps meddling censorship attempts by Congress. Says Edward P. Morgan, the veteran ABC newscaster who is chief correspondent of PBL: "No self-respecting journalist can go hat in hand to Congress every year, saying, 'We'll treat you better next year if you give us $100 million...