*Celebrating PBS NewsHour highlights the history and accomplishments of WETA's groundbreaking

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public media news operation PBS NewsHour, which produces one of the most trusted news programs in America. The special also showcases how the NewsHour team creates their award-winning hour-long daily newscast.

WETA, CH 26 @ 8 p.m.

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1. watched it often in the mcneil/lehrer days. talking heads to the max nt

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2. Thank heaven for PBS based in Arllington

and public broadcasting like NPR. Their educational and cultural programs are well done, news is good too. The BBC begun in the 1920s was the model for worldwide public broadcasting - programs in the public interest, not for private, commerical sector profit.

During LBJ's admin., national public broadcasting was strengthened like the creation of the NEA and NEH for the arts and humanities I believe. And cons hate non profit institutions of course.

(Wiki) .. A national public radio network, National Public Radio (NPR), was created in February 1970, following the passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. This network replaced the Ford Foundation-backed National Educational Radio Network. Some independent local public radio stations buy their programming from distributors such as NPR; Public Radio International (PRI); American Public Media (APM); Public Radio Exchange (PRX); and Pacifica Radio, most often distributed through the Public Radio Satellite System. Cultural Native American and Mexican American music and programming are also featured regionally. NPR is colloquially though inaccurately conflated with public radio as a whole, when in fact "public radio" includes many organizations.

- Television: In the US, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) serves as the nation's main public television provider. When it launched in October 1970, PBS assumed many of the functions of its predecessor, National Educational Television (NET). NET was shut down by the Ford Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting after the network refused to stop airing documentaries on varying social issues that had alienated many of the network's affiliates.[38] PBS would later acquire Educational Television Stations, an organization founded by the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB), in 1973.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_broadcasting