Abstract
This essay analyses one of the most contentious topics in U.S. television studies: the conceptualization of public service in broadcasting. It gives a historical perspective of public service in broadcasting in the US and the political and ideological implications in the broadcasting of the programs and films.
Highlights
This essay offers some thoughts on one of the most contentious topics in U.S television studies: the conceptualization of public service in broadcasting
What exactly constituted the public interest, and in subsequent decades? What kind of programming might count as public service programming? The answer has never been satisfactorily spelled out
Perhaps the most in-depth articulation of the meaning of public service was the one offered by the New Deal era policy document known as the Blue Book, written in 1946, twenty years prior to the formation of state-sponsored public television and networks known as the Public Broadcasting System
Summary
This essay offers some thoughts on one of the most contentious topics in U.S television studies: the conceptualization of public service in broadcasting.
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