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...Alastair Cooke's America." The Ivy Group, the official organization representing Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, and II, Penn, agreed, and thus was born the Public Broad casting Service's "Ivy Game of the Week." The first season saw the games air over twelve stations, including PBS powerhouses like Boston's WGBH, New York's, WNFE, and Pittsburgh's WOFD...
...football should return. The tiny audience the games attracted doesn't exactly suggest that America has been waiting all these years to get a glimpse of Big Green football. Public television, however, doesn't exist solefy for big ratings--that's the job of ABC, CBS, and NBC, if PBS can serve a public need defined other than by the number of people who want to watch a given program, then by all means it should do so. That's how we end up with driver education programs, and documentaries on harp seals, and even "Monty Python's Flying Circus...
...almost no audience demand for Ivy football, it has no exceptional educational merit, and there's a superabundance of football of all kinds on the commercial stations. Why do the public broadcasters seem so interested in having it? No station spokesman would give an answer beyond the need for PBS to have a "sports presence," or the way Ivy football players brought "perspective" back to winning and losing (tell that to the Crimson squad downed 30-27 by the Yalies last November). Producer Harney in fact, could "make no case for why we do these things. WNET's Iselin slied...
...doubt there're a few Ivy alumni in this group. PBS is, like its corporate" underwriters, pandering to the people who keep it afloat. That's too bad, but in a sense you can't really blame program directors and station-presidents--who decide to air a Dartmouth-Penn game instead of something else. Ivy games are certainly no criminal offense against PBS's mandate, and the public stations need all the good will they can get. Public broadcasting executives should start to ask themselves, though, how far they can go in sacrificing their programming and policy orientation as they...
...public addresses; last year she gave 14 antidrug speeches, double the number of the year before. The First Lady played herself on an episode of the situation comedy Diff'rent Strokes, was co-host of the two-hour talk show Good Morning America and narrated an antidrug documentary for PBS, The Chemical People. She is about to announce an unusual high-profile variation on the theme, inviting the spouses of two dozen heads of state to the U.S. for a three-day antidrug forum in Washington and Atlanta...