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The Institution of Public Television

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Extract

Recently the Bishop of Bayeux in northern France ordered less ringing of church bells on Sunday afternoons. The public had been complaining that the electric mechanism used to ring the bells these days caused “snow” on their television screens. Clearly that public would have its television, even if this meant cutting back on a tradition of bell ringing that was at least a thousand years old.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1968

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References

1 Camegie Commission on Educational Television, Public Television, a Program for Action (New York, 1967).Google Scholar

2 Lippmann, Walter “Today and Tomorrow” column, 10 27, 1959.Google Scholar

3 U. S. Office of Education. The Financing of Educational Television Stations, Present Patterns and Recommendations for the Future (the report of a study conducted by Educational Television Stations, a div. of the National Assn. of Educational Broadcasters under a contract with the U. S. Office of Education—OE-5–16–003—Frederick Breitenfeld, Jr., proj. dir.) 1965, p. 39.Google Scholar

4 Carnegie Commission, op. cit. pp. 1314.Google Scholar

5 Ibid., p. 13.