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No ABC's on TV: Education Takes a Beating
Carson, Saul | March 7, 1953 issue

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Just as educational television seemed to be in the bag, a commission controlled by New York's governor took a long step toward a blackout. The state's Temporary Commission on the Use of Television for Educational Purposes, after a good deal of obvious political flimflam, suddenly whipped up a report paying up service to the "desirability" of educational television but advising the legislature not to spend a dime for the purpose. As a bitter minority of the commission said in a dissenting note, the cost of putting New York State into the business of building and operating a network of ten television stations would have amounted to "the equivalent of one-half mile of county road."

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TELEVISION in education; EDUCATIONAL television stations; TELEVISION in education -- Law & legislation; NEW York (State) -- Politics & government; EXECUTIVE advisory bodies; NEW York (State); UNITED States
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