National Public Broadcasting Archives
Visit NPBA on the Web or at the University of Maryland,
College Park. Consult NPBA's extensive timeline keyed
to its holdings
and its list of collections
in other repositories.
Public Broadcasting PolicyBase
The field's key documents compiled by Current and NPBA
People in public broadcasting
Current features and news about producers, hosts and executives
WGBH timeline, 1945-78
and other features of its alumni website
Tuning Out Education:
The Cooperation Doctrine in Radio
Eugene Leach's paper on the 1930s battle that delayed the emergence of public
broadcasting in the United States.
Microfilmed editions of Current
Available from NPBA for the newspaper's first 15 years, 1980-95.
Public Broadcasting Bookshelf
Recent books on the field's history listed by Current
On-air logos for PBS, stations
Closing Logos Wiki has video clips of animated logos going way back
Web page revised Aug. 7, 2008