The Vanishing Vision: The Inside Story of Public Television

by James Day

Book Overview

This spirited history of public television offers an insider's account of its topsy-turvy forty-year odyssey. James Day, a founder of San Francisco's KQED and a past president of New York's WNET,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520086597
• ISBN13: 9780520086593
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 453 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

The definitive guide to Public Broadcasting

This book gives you just about anything you need to know about public broadcasting from its early stages in radio clear up to its publication date in the mid 90's. Not only do you get great personal accounts of James Day's journey from that start of KQED in San Fransisco to him heading NET, but there is a great overview of the machine that is public broadcasting. The book commemorates educational/public broadcastings journey from its infancy and is a fantastic read for any who love public television and wish to know more.

A very good memoir of life in public broadcasting

Anyone who wants a first-person account of life as an insider in public broadcasting would do well to read this book. The author was head of WQED, San Francisco and WNET, New York as well as head of NET, the educational network which preceded PBS. Day's account shows how the good intentions of those who founded the system paved the road to where public broadcasting finds itself today...