P
Pace, Frank, Jr., 122 -23, 132 , 213 , 379 n9
as CPB board chair, 213 , 292 , 400 n32, 419
Pacifica Foundation, 32 -33, 50 , 371 n8
Paik, Nam June, 317
Palmer, Edward L., 155 -56, 159
Parsons, John, 205 -6
Pastore Subcommittee on Communications hearings, 131 -32, 245 , 252 , 380 n4, 393 n23
Patterson, Franklin, 378 n4
PBL project:
debut year, 107 -11
development, 101 , 105 -7, 126
final year, 111 -15
organizational structure, 106 -7, 110 -11, 143 -44, 376 n10, 377 n19
children's programs, 169 , 305 -6
corporate underwriting standards, 278 , 399 n11
CPB-PBS partnership after Nixon, 240 , 241 -44, 253 -72, 394 n40
creation, 136 -41
Death of a Princess affair, 268 -72
decentralized structure, 61 , 113 , 136 -38, 237
editorial power, 177 -82, 204 , 384 n13
first hour-long news show, 85 , 278 -80
Ford Foundation role in shaping, 140 -41, 381 n16
funding, 260 -61, 287 -90, 357 -61, 406 n15
The Great
American Dream Machine FBI segment, 180 -81, 204 , 225
independent production access, 316 , 324 -25
merger with ETS/NAEB, 240 -41
National Program Service goals for, 304 -10
Nixon control by pressures on, 215 -18, 221 , 223 , 227 -30, 235 -36
programming, 138 -40, 233 -34, 236 -37, 243 -44, 283 -87, 328 -30
reformation of public system, 264 -68, 276 -77, 298 -303, 357 -59, 399 n9, 406 n15
as technology pioneer, 310 -13
Vietnam: A Television History and AIM, 281 -82
Voters' Channel refusal, 1 -5, 309
Watergate hearings coverage, 247 -49.
See also public television
People for the American Way study, 339
Pepper, Robert, 141
The Politics of Interconnection,381 n16
Percy, Charles, 271
Perkins, James A., 197 , 387 n9, 388 n14
Perlmutter, Alvin H., 82 , 88 , 131 -32
as The Great American Dream Machine producer, 3 , 172 -74, 419
Pettit, Tom, 106
Pfister, Edward J., 293 -96, 419
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, on censorship of public television, 181
Pifer, Alan, 151 -52
political climate:
KQED and local issues, 51 -59
and long-form documentary, 341 -44
NET programs in 1960s, 85 -92, 111 -12
NET programs in 1970s, 176 , 185 -90
role of television, 9 -10, 34 -35
Politics--and Comedy of Woody Allen, The,224 -27, 391 nn 30,
Politics of Interconnection, The (Avery and Pepper), 381 n16
Porambo, Ron, 208
Postman, Neil:
Amusing Ourselves to Death,338 , 347
Technopoly,363
Powell, John W., Channels of Learning,368 n3, 368 -69n11, 369 n6, 369 -70n7, 370 n12, 371 n3
Powers, Ron:
on The Great American Dream Machine,175
on NPACT, 143
Program Fund:
funding for independent productions, 266 -68, 319 -22
Public Broadcasting Act (1967), 238 , 290
implementation, 121 -25, 378 n6, 379 nn 9, , 14
passage and terms, 119 -22, 299 , 380 n5
program regulation, 245 , 326 -30, 403 -4n13
Public Broadcasting Environment Center, 124
Public Broadcasting Report, "PBS Unveils Public Subscriber Network," 402 n26
Public Broadcasting Service. See PBS
public radio, 6 -10, 12 , 32 -33, 369 -70n7, 371 n8
Public Service Broadcasting in a Multichannel Environment, "Public Service Broadcasting in the United States" (Rowland), 367 n5
Public Subscriber Network, 311
Public Telecommunications Financing Act (1978), 261 -64, 319 -20, 323 , 403 n3
Public Telecommunications Review, "CPB-PBS Agreement," 394 n40
Public Television: A Program for Action (Carnegie I), 118 , 378 n8, 390 n16
public television:
audience, 9 -10, 171 -72, 310 , 314
balance in programming, 326 -30, 340 -41, 344 , 403 -4n13, 405 n18
Carnegie study on, 115 -22, 377 -78n3, 378 n4
Carnegie study on, 274 -76, 398 -99n7
children's programs, 4 , 49 -50, 53 -54, 92 , 100 , 145 -69
as competitive with commercial television, 24 -26, 346 -47, 368 -69n11
corporate under-writing rules, 277 -80, 399 n11
CPB leadership, 119 -25, 129 -44
CPB-PBS partnership after Nixon, 240 -44, 253 -72, 394 n40
diversity in programs, 304 -5, 334 -36, 344 -48
European public systems vs., 5 -10, 26 -27, 33 -34
first nightly news show, 278 -80
goals, 96 -99, 304 -10, 357 -58
independent production, 267 -68, 314 -30
leadership, 2 , 26 -28, 71 , 125 -27, 140 , 290 -97
meaning of "public," 129 -30, 312 -13, 333
mission and purpose, 4 -6, 12 -13, 91 , 171 -72, 308 -9, 312 , 357
NET leadership, 72 -99, 125 -27, 131 -44, 170 -200
NET-WNDT merger, 182 , 188 , 200 -211
news and current issues, 1 -5, 340 -44
Nixon Administration influence on, 212 -46, 253
and NPACT,
140 -44
PBS-CPB partnership after Nixon, 240 -44, 253 -72. 394 n40
PBS leadership, 136 -41
perception, 5 -6, 129 -32, 331 -36, 344 -50, 357 , 360,367 n5
presidential failure to bring leadership to, 290 -97, 400 -401n32
quality in content, 9 -10, 344 -48
Reagan Administration influence on, 273 -74, 277 -78, 281 , 287 -90
rebirth after Nixon influence, 247 -49
reforming the system 276 -77, 351 -65, 399 n9
roles, 2 , 4 , 9 -10, 112 -13, 333 -36, 340 -48
station histories, 29 -42, 370 n12
technology explosion and implications, 310 -13
weaknesses, 332 -36
WNET/Channel 13 , 182 -90, 200 -211.
See also decentralized public system; educational television; individual stations
Public Television Finance Act (1975), 253 , 258
Puttnam, David, 357