Word: pbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baseball is unquestionably baseball, but it can get on your nerves after a while and besides, it's not hockey. The Stanley Cup play-offs of the previous year seem a distant memory, and something, anything, is needed for a fix. Maybe it's some international game on PBS, or a highlight film at three in the morning. Most likely, though, there's nothing until the first week of October and opening day has arrived. The hockey mindset grabs you, and that...
Expert panelists from the trucking industry and various public interest groups debated federal deregulation of trucking in a segment of the PBS series "The Advocates" taped last night in the Arco Forum at the Kennedy School of Government...
Nixon's veto, which the commission calls "consistent" with his policies against concentration of power in the media, destroyed already weak ties between existing public broadcasting bureaucracies. Relations between the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), both vying for financial and creative supremacy, deteriorated. When organizational conflicts subsided, Nixon signed a bill authorizing increased local funding. Decisions in 1975 stabilized the system further. Institutional reorganization coupled with a new multi-year funding plan "helped stimulate public broadcasting's recovery and renewed development." Under this system, as a barrage of figures indicate, public television experienced...
...vital educational role. Disbursing funds through a central bureau might reduce support for such groups. It would no doubt, foster competition among local and national sources. What the commission labels a "useful, healthy tension" threatens to degenerate into the same type of conflicts that once plauged both CPB and PBS...
...best, Real Life graphically illustrates the absurdity of television's reality mongers, from the cinema verite specialists at PBS to Charles Kuralt...