Independent Television Makers and Public Communications Policy
With the support of The Rockefeller Foundation, and the collaboration of Howard Klein, Director of its Arts Program, and Herbert Dordick of the University of Southern California, then visiting the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John Reilly organized Independent Television Makers and Public Communications Policy, a Seminar Conference to Promote Telecommunications Diversity in the 1980's, at the Rockefeller Foundation on June 6-9, 1979.
Reilly himself presented a paper on "The Independents, Media Arts Centers and Public Television"; Alan Jacobs, Executive Director of AIVF, contributed "The Independent Mandate"; and Nick DeMartino, an independent producer and editor of Televisions which had published a special issue on "Independent Producers In the Future of Public Television" (Volume 6, No. 4 April 1979), and more recently a Consultant to the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting, addressed "The Case for a Center for Independent Television."
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John Reilly organized Independent Television Makers and Public Communications Policy, a Seminar Conference to Promote Telecommunications Diversity held at the Rockefeller Foundation on June 6-9, 1979, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation with collaboration from Howard Klein, Director, Arts Program, and Herbert Dordick of the University of Southern California (then visiting MIT). Reilly presented The Independents, Media Arts Centers and Public Television; Alan Jacobs, Executive Director of AIVF, contributed The Independent Mandate; and Nick DeMartino, independent producer and editor of Televisions and consultant, Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting, addressed The Case for a Center for Independent Television.
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