Neither of us is old enough to have been fooled by the Trojan Horse (see Wikipedia). But we each have been working in public television decades enough to remember the days when distribution was handled by physically transporting bulky 2-inch videotapes from station to station -- "bicycled" was the word -- and much of the broadcast day and night was devoted to blackboard lectures, string quartets and lessons in Japanese brush painting: The old educational television versions of reality TV.
Yet it also was a time of innovation and creativity. As the system evolved we saw bold experiments like Pbl - the Public Broadcasting Laboratory and Al Perlmutter's The Great American Dream Machine, each a predecessor to the commercial TV magazine shows 60 Minutes and 20/20. The TV Lab, jointly run by David Loxton at Wnet in New York and Fred Barzyk at Wgbh in Boston, nurtured and encouraged the first generation...
Yet it also was a time of innovation and creativity. As the system evolved we saw bold experiments like Pbl - the Public Broadcasting Laboratory and Al Perlmutter's The Great American Dream Machine, each a predecessor to the commercial TV magazine shows 60 Minutes and 20/20. The TV Lab, jointly run by David Loxton at Wnet in New York and Fred Barzyk at Wgbh in Boston, nurtured and encouraged the first generation...
- 3/23/2012
- by Bill Moyers
- Aol TV.
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