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...England's only educational television station is the 12th in the country to start operations and can reach an estimated 1,250,000 homes in the Boston area, according to Parker Wheatley, general manager of the station. For the past two months the station has been conducting closed-circuit test programs...
Until next fall the station will be on the air Mondays through Fridays from 5:30 p.m. to about 9 p.m. with a "modest schedule of programs," according to Wheatley. "Many will be experimental, and reaction to them will be important in planning and development for the 1955-56 academic year," he said...
With the exception of one 45-minute period, from 7:15 to 8, all the programs will be televised live, Wheatley added. This one period will feature films from the Educational Television and Radio Center in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...station has direct cables to the Kresge Auditorium and field house of M.I.T. as well as to the Boston Fine Arts Museum. "Use of these facilities will be made after we get settled," Wheatley said...
Many of the programs will appeal mainly to special groups, for it is plain that ballet dancing and ethical debates will not intrigue every listener. "WGBH is a station built for special publics," says its manager, Parker Wheatley. "We would begin to worry if everyone just turned his TV set to Channel Two and left it running all evening...