A
Aaron, Chloe, 417
ABC, 16 , 20 , 101 -2, 400 n29.
See also commercial networks
Abel, Elie, 180
Abrams, Harry N., 388 n14
Accuracy in Media (AIM), 203 , 282
Adair, Peter H., 325
advertising, 7 -8
corporate underwriting rules, 24 , 274 , 277 -78
national ads for programs, 256 -57, 271 .
See also corporate underwriting
Age of Kings, An,74 -75
AIM (Accuracy in Media), 203 , 282
Alabama state network, 39 , 385 n23
rejection of programs by, 87 , 109 , 182 , 272 , 374 -75n11
Alexander, Sydney, 339 -40
"Public Television and the 'Ought' of Public Policy," 343
Allen, Woody, 224 -27, 391 n34
Alvin H. Perlmutter Company. See Perlmutter, Alvin H.
Ambrosino, Michael, 400 n29
American Council on Education, 368 n8
American Family, An,185 -90, 385 n27
American Family Association, 307
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, 92
American Heritage Dictionary, "eminence," 290
American Journal of Sociology, "Objectivity as Strategic Ritual" (G. Tuchman), 403 n13
consortium, 284 -86
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Postman), 338 , 347
Anderson, Gloria, 394 n36
Annenberg, Walter, 288
Anson, Robert S., 205 -6
APTS (Association of America's Public Television Stations), 5 , 81 , 265 , 281 , 303 , 367 n2, 397 n22
Armsey, James W.:
as Ford grants administrator, 77 -81, 373 n2, 417
tensions between NET and, 78 -81
vision of public television, 97 -98, 375 n16
Aspen Document, 139 -40, 381 n14
Association of America's Public Television Stations. See APTS
Association of California Independent Public Television Producers, 323
Association for Education by Radio, 368 n8
Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, 267 -68, 320 , 323
Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, 368 n8
Association of Public Television Producers, 131 -32
Attenborough, David, 172
Australia public broadcasting, 16 , 83 , 97
Avery, Robert K., Politics of Interconnection,381 n16
awards:
Appalachian Spring,75
The Brain, 288
Carmina Burana (Prix Italia), 93
The Civil War,314
Free Time (Emmy), 203
Hollywood Television Theater (Emmy), 184 , 267 , 284
Lay My Burden Down,86 -87
Lincoln Center: Stage (Prix Italia), 95
NET treatment of presidential address (Emmy), 85
Newsroom (Dupont-Columbia Award, Peabody Award), 58
Pablo Casals Master Class,75
Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (Emmy),
P.O. V. (Academy nomination), 325
Poverty, Anti-Poverty and the Poor (Emmy), 145
See It Now, 99
The Times of Harvey Milk (Oscar), 318 -19
VD Blues (AMA Award to 3M as sponsor), 184