History of public broadcasting
IN THE UNITED STATES

Other resources

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