Industry Pioneers to Examine History and Legacy of Public Broadcasting
Introduction to panel:
* Henry Becton, Vice Chair, WGBH Board of Trustees; President of WGBH Educational Foundation
Panel 2 (of 4): News and Public Affairs Talk Shows (seated left to right):
* Jim Lehrer, co-anchor, “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour”
* Cokie Roberts, NPR and MacNeil/Lehrer contributor; AAPB adviser
* Dick Cavett, host of “The Dick Cavett Show,” 1977-1982
* Sharon Percy Rockefeller, CEO, WETA-TV
* Hugo Morales, co-founder, Radio Bilingüe
* Judy Woodruff, “PBS NewsHour” (moderator)
The Library of Congress and Boston public broadcaster WGBH will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 with a series of panels featuring pioneers and experts in public broadcasting.
The event also will be livestreamed on the Library’s Facebook page at facebook.com/libraryofcongress and its YouTube site (with captions) at youtube.com/LibraryOfCongress.
Signed by President Lyndon Johnson, the act established public broadcasting as it is organized today and also authorized the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to establish and maintain a library and archives of non-commercial educational television and radio programs. CPB established the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) in 2009 and, in 2013, the Library of Congress and WGBH assumed responsibility of AAPB, coordinating a national effort to preserve and make accessible significant at-risk public media.
A Library report on television and video preservation in 1997 cited the importance of public broadcasting: “[I]t is still not easy to overstate the immense cultural value of this unique audiovisual legacy, whose loss would symbolize one of the great conflagrations of our age, tantamount to the burning of Alexandria’s library in the age of antiquity.”
The initial AAPB archive, donated by more than 100 public ...More...
- 2017_DC_Preserving_PP1_171103: Library of Congress -- Event: Preserving Public Broadcasting at 50 Years -- Panel 1: Origins (w/Ervin Duggan, Nicholas Johnson, Bill Siemering, and Cokie Roberts) and Welcome (84 photos from 2017)
- 2017_DC_Preserving_PP2_171103: Library of Congress -- Event: Preserving Public Broadcasting at 50 Years -- Panel 2: News and Talk Shows (w/Jim Lehrer, Dick Cavett, Cokie Roberts, Hugo Morales, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, and Judy Woodruff) (54 photos from 2017)
- 2017_DC_Preserving_PP3_171103: Library of Congress -- Event: Preserving Public Broadcasting at 50 Years -- Panel 3: Style and Archives (w/David Fanning, Clayborne Carson, Stephen Gong, Margaret Drain, and Patricia Aufderheide) (40 photos from 2017)
- 2017_DC_Preserving_PP4_171103: Library of Congress -- Event: Preserving Public Broadcasting at 50 Years -- Panel 4: Educational Uses (w/Lloyd Morrisett, Paula Apsell, Kathryn Ostrofsky, and Jennifer Lawson) and Conclusion (47 photos from 2017)
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