National Educational Television: Difference between revisions

'''National Educational Television''' ('''NET''') was a former major educational and public TV network, founded in early 1952 and incorporated in November of that year. Among their original affiliates were [[WNET]] 13 New York, [[KCET]] 28 Los Angeles, [[GBH|WGBH]] 2 Boston, [[WQED]] 13 Pittsburgh, [[WETA]] 26 Washington D.C., [[KUHT]] 8 Houston, [[KERA-TV|KERA]] 13 Dallas-Ft. Worth, and [[WYES]] 12 New Orleans. Originating from The Educational Television and Radio Center from 1952-1959, and later The National Educational Television and Radio Center from 1959 to 1962, when the radio portion was dropped. [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] succeeded NET in 1970, due to the Corporation of Public Broadcasting and the Ford Foundation pulling its funding. It merged with WNDT to become the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, the parent company of WNET, in 1972.{{ImageTOC