Word: wgbh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subjects of importance to society, the one most systematically neglected by American television is science." So says Michael Rice, vice president of Boston's public television station WGBH. According to a survey made at the beginning of the 1972-73 season, science programs were scheduled for fewer than 25 out of 4,368 prime-time network hours-about one-half of 1%. Further, most of the programs were not really science, but adventure-wildlife travelogues...
Commercial broadcasters have shown little interest in expanding the range of televised science programming, but WGBH is doing something about it. It has produced and, with other public television stations this season, is offering Nova, a series of innovative, hour-long shows aimed at filling the void between deadly dull "educational" lecturing and pop-science trivia...
Produced by WGBH'S Michael Ambrosino, the series was modeled on the BBC's Horizon series. It also benefits from the expertise of many leading scientists who, says Ambrosino, "are starving for the opportunity to portray science accurately." In Strange Sleep, a dramatization of the discovery of anesthesia, eminent Bostonian physicians did a remarkably credible job of acting as they portrayed their medical predecessors. Occasionally, as in The Crab Nebula, the program's accuracies are a bit too complex for laymen to follow. But for the most part the shows accomplish their purpose: to stimulate the mind...
Producer Philip Garvin, 26, first immersed himself in American religion while photographing a book on the Lubavitchers. Later, after discovering Thai Buddhism during a stay abroad, he decided to investigate spirituality in the U.S. and started a pilot film on the California Pentecostal church. Station WGBH in Boston heard of his work and financed the rest of the pilot. Foundations aided the others. Garvin took pains to let the people themselves tell the story; there is no narration. Thus the series is pithy and personal, but some basic journalistic questions-a number of important whos, whats, wheres and hows...
...past two years Nixon has vetoed three appropriations bills. With the Ford Foundation preparing to move out of public TV, a mad scramble for corporate benefactors is the only hope against program cancellation. Many programs and ideas have died in this assault against public television. Other programs, like WGBH's award winning "The Advocates," are just barely surviving. If funds can't be found immediately, "The Advocates," too, will fall by February...