Public Airwaves: Building the Local PBS Station

How public television took root locally: Fred Rogers's 1969 Senate testimony that saved PBS, Joan Ganz Cooney at Thirteen, WGBH's own Internet Show and ZOOM 50th, pledge-drive culture from WNET's Star Wars breaks to a 1998 Bobby Darin telethon, and the shaky future of public access TV.

Playlist by @local_station_docs

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) — LastWeekTonight
  2. May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications — Road Less Marveled
  3. Pioneers of Thirteen: Joan Ganz Cooney — THIRTEEN
  4. WGBH PBS The Internet Show (Recorded 3/1995) — TVARCHIVEZ
  5. "Come On and ZOOM!" 50th Anniversary Special — GBH
  6. WPT Behind the Scenes - PBS NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown — PBS Wisconsin
  7. Bobby Darin: Beyond the Song + PBS Pledge Drive (12/1998) — Patrick Cotnoir
  8. December 3, 1983 - PBS/WNET Pledge Break for "From Star Wars to Jedi" — TheaterPup
  9. WNET (PBS) program break [July 1, 1987] — RabbitFilmMakerTV
  10. The Shaky Future Of Public Access TV — GBH News