F
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), 405 n18
Fanning, David, 286 , 320 , 325
Fauci, Salvatore, 394 n32
Blue Book (1946 Report), 16 , 373 -74n3
channel reservation for education, 9 , 10 , 17 -30, 35 , 71 , 193
on discrimination against blacks, 182 , 385 n23
fairness and accuracy criteria, 329 -30
licensing, 5 , 8 , 17 , 21 , 193 , 368 -69n11
policy on private ownership of airwaves, 22 , 102 -3
radio frequency reservation for education, 17 -18, 25 , 41 , 369 n12
regulations on educational television, 16 -17, 278 , 329 -30, 368 n10, 384 n13
and role of educational television, 26 -27
Sixth Report and Order,9 , 22 -24, 27 , 28
Third Notice of Proposed Rule Making,21 -22
Fenner, Darwin, 39
51st State, The,204 -11
Film Fund, 304
Firing Line,184 , 235 , 243 , 392 n38
First Year of "Sesame Street" (Ball and Bogatz), 383 n19
Fischer, John, 376 n10, 377 n19
Flanigin, Peter, 213 , 219 -20
Fleming, Robben W., 265 -66, 293 , 397 n24, 398 n30, 418
Fletcher, C. Scott:
as decentralized system designer, 27 -28, 33 -34, 38 , 63 , 112 -13, 369 n6, 374 n7
as Fund for Adult Education president, 19 -21, 27 , 40 , 77 -78, 116 , 418
and listener sponsorship study, 32 -33, 369 -70n7
as national program center creator, 61 -65, 69 , 73 , 81 , 126 , 133 , 418
station recruitment, 28 , 29 -34, 40 .
See also Fund for Adult Education
Folsom, Marion, 30
Forbes, H. C., 387 n6
Ford, Edsel, 18
Ford, Eleanor C., 18
Ford, Gerald R., 291
Ford, Henry, 18
Ford Foundation, 81 , 101 , 105 , 199
FCC reservation of education channels, 18 -21
goals for public television, 96 -99
Nixon Administration on, 219 , 390 -91n19
on nonprofit service of satellite technology, 102 -3
reorganization of public television, 113 -14, 125 -26, 240
role in NPACT creation, 140 -44, 215 , 381 -82n17
role in PBS creation, 140 -41, 381 n16.
See also Ford Foundation grants; Fund for Adult Education
Ford Foundation grants:
for ETRC, 61 -65
for independent productions, 318 , 321
for innovative programs, 55 , 58 -59
for Media and Society Seminars, 282 -83
for NET, 73 , 74 , 76 -81, 92 , 171
for PBL project, 101 , 105 -15, 321 , 376 n8
policy on, 74 , 76 , 79 -81, 115 -16, 246
for quality in universities and colleges, 98
for Sesame Street,151 -52
for SPC, 396 n9
for station equipment, 31 -32, 33 , 35 , 45 -46
for station use (non-equipment), 29 , 31 , 72 , 195 -96
See also Ford Foundation
Forsyte Saga, The,171 , 383 n2, 385 n26
Fox, Virginia G., 403 n10
France public television, 7
Frankel, Max, 83
Franklin, John H., 198
Freedman, Lewis, 113 -14
as CPB Program Fund director, 266 -68, 284 , 319 , 418
as creator of consortium, 284 -87
as Hollywood Television Theater creator, 184 , 267 , 284 , 377 n22, 418
Matters of Life and Death,268 , 319 , 320
in PBL project, 106 , 267 , 418
freedom of speech, 26 , 121 -23, 202 -3, 343 , 353
Freeman, Neal B., 394 n36
Friday, William, 394 n32
Friendly, Fred W., 135 , 136 , 140 , 199
as adviser to Ford president, 55 , 78 , 99 , 101 , 104 , 126 , 128 -29, 418
on federal funding, 121 -22, 263
goal for public television, 101 , 105 , 112 , 126
as Media and Society Seminars creator, 282 -83, 418
on NET-WNDT merger, 192 , 201 , 205
as PBL project creator, 101 , 105 -15, 126
role in NPACT creation, 141 -44, 215 , 381 -82n17
and satellite technology, 101 -4
Frontline, 286 , 303 , 320 , 342
Fund for Adult Education:
development, 18 -21
influence on public system, 26 -27, 33 -34, 38 -39, 40 -41, 116
and listener sponsorship study, 32 -33, 369 -70n7
Fund for Advancement of Education, 33
alternative methods, 361 -63
programming as influence on, 53 , 56 -57
spectrum fee, 275 -76, 277 , 361 -62.
See also corporate underwriting; grants; U.S. Congress