Word: pbs
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...PBS, the last entry into the cultural crapshoot, hopes to have a pay-TV system ready sometime in 1983, at a cost of something like $13.95 a month to a potential 360,000 subscribers. PBS, which stands for Public Broadcasting System and not, as critics joke, Poor, Beleaguered and Subsidized, is trying to construct an alliance that would include its 280 member stations and such organizations as the Metropolitan Opera and the Detroit Symphony. Though nothing is definite, its programming presumably would be along the lines of its present Great Performances series...
...PBS and college education...
...Most PBS courses consist of 30 half-hour segments aired during a 15-week semester. Modern satellite distribution lets stations schedule programs at times convenient to the students, usually during the lunch hour or late at night and on weekends. Since participating schools pay PBS a $300 licensing fee for each course they offer and a flat $10 to $15 for each student, the courses are economical both for the school and the student. Course requirements vary from campus to campus, but there is a basic procedure. The student pays tuition and enrolls in person, by phone or by mail...
...Miami-Dade Community College, which helped create the PBS introductory course in psychology, 1,000 students are learning by screen. Faculty members conduct optional review sessions on campus, produce extra exams and evaluate student work by phone or letter. Burlington County College, located on the rim of the pine Barrens in southern New Jersey, has 24 students taking the PBS Shakespeare course. Their assignment includes reading two comedies, two tragedies and two historical dramas and watching six televised performances (from the Shakespeare series co-produced by BBC-TV and Time-Life Television). The midterm and final can be submitted...
...PBS the most venturesome new show is Enterprise, 13 often entertaining half-hours about American business, starting Friday. But the series falls short in ways familiar to viewers of commercial network documentaries: an aimlessly neutral, "objective" tone; a visual style that is decorative rather than narrative; and frequent excursions into colorful but unimportant byways-the packaging of a bestseller, auctioning of thoroughbred horses, marketing of Kentucky Fried Chicken in Japan...