Word: wgbx
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aired on WGBX, UHF Channel 44, The Game is a foreign policy simulation show. The purpose of the game is to teach an understanding of the problems diplomats face in crisis situations, and the pressures under which they must make vital decisions...
...simulation was written by Martin Gordon, an employee of ABT, Inc., a Cambridge research firm. He said that WGBX's innovation of audience participation made little difference to a basically difficult job. The problem is trying to direct the action of the players without denying them the right to make free decisions...
...WGBX, a new outgrowth of WGBX Channel 2, the educational television station in Boston, solved two problems at once with The Most Dangerous Game. The element of audience participation changed TV watching from a completely passive to a partially active pastime. And the use of the mass media permits the public to take part in a game simulation without paying the usual high costs...
Part of the HEW grant will enable WGBX to install facilities for color transmission. "We need color to compete with commercial TV," Ives explained...
Harvard is one of 14 members of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, which provides the operating budget of WGBH and given advice on programming. The WGBH building on Western Ave., which will house WGBX, was built on land made available by the University at an annual rent...