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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...
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...
...Concert. The Bee Gees, Steely Dan, Focus, and local boys J. Geils Band in simulcast stereo. CH.5. WGBH-TV. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...Perhaps WGBH should take Loomis up on his desire for more documentaries. The viewing public, along with 232 public TV stations, could profit from an in-depth study into why public broadcasting is becoming so politicized. The documentary might begin by examining why Senator Brooke was compelled to say on the Senate floor, "CPB is setting a very dangerous precedent. For when one hand controls the Federal funds and also controls distribution power for public television we will have in appearance and perhaps in fact a domestic Government network...