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Michele and I have been learning from and enjoying public television and radio for years. We are a better place for the work you do.
-- Tom Ridge, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governor |
Jimmy McDonald (left), host of Black Perspective in the News, interviews civil rights activist Cecil B. Moore. |
From left: Jane Kashlak, Keith Humphreys and Michael Cascio host Today in Delaware. |
Radio Free Women collective members. From left: Danis Regal, Eileen Kirby, Joyce Lieberman and Ann Fineman. |
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1970
|||||||||||||| National Public Radio (NPR) is incorporated. |
1971
||||||||||||| TV12's transmitter is moved from Glassboro, NJ to the "antenna farm" in Roxborough, PA, expanding the broadcast signal. NPR launches its first live nationwide broadcast with coverage of the Senate Hearings on Vietnam. All Things Considered debuts, and the curtain rises on Masterpiece Theatre on TV12. |
1973
||||||||||||| TV12 and 91FM carry gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Watergate Hearings, the longest broadcast coverage ever devoted to a single news event. PBS pioneers closed captioning of television programs for the hearing impaired. |
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1975
|||||||||||||| Fresh Air debuts on 91FM as a local daily radio program hosted by Judy Blank. A few months later, Terry Gross becomes the program's host. The Robert MacNeil Report, forerunner of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, debuts on TV12. |
1977
||||||||||||| Luciano Pavarotti brings opera to millions of homes with the premiere telecast of The Metropolitan Opera Presents. |
1978
||||||||||||| WHYY leases from the city of Philadelphia for $1 a year the Living History Center on Independence Mall, a museum built for the Bicentennial. PBS launches broadcast television's first satellite connection system, linking all PBS stations nationwide. A year later Morning Edition brews its first reports on 91FM. |
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Public TV and radio offer quality programming that enriches our lives and that parents have learned they can trust. Too often today, it is challenging to find quality entertainment. Public broadcasting gives people an opportunity to choose more meaningful programming. And parents, including Michele and myself, feel safe letting their children watch and listen to such programs. Public broadcasting is part of the fabric of Pennsylvania's communities, and WHYY is part of the fabric of Greater Philadelphia.
