U.S. public television
Sir, — The “Economist” article on American public television (“The Press,” February 17) conveys a distorted image of the reality to one who has just returned from a two-month stay in America. First, one
must ask if one of the prime functions of P.B.S. is experimentation. I would be inclined to think that the province of experimentation is either cable TV and/or the universities. I think excellence in programming should be their aim. I saw two live operas from the Met., in New York, the weekly McNeill-Lehrer reports, an excellent jazz concert, a science report on lasers, etc. Perhaps, these were not innovative; they did “cultivate” the viewer. As an English friend at Oxford University wrote recently, after his first visit to America, "... I realised the Americans could produce good TV programmes after watching the P.B.S. station which I thought even better than 8.8. C. 2 in Britain as far as quality and range of programming go.” — Yours, S. WESTERMANN. February 18, 1979.
U.S. public television
Press, 20 February 1979, Page 18
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