We all know that people listen to radio and watch television. The difference between radio and television is in the image. When you listen to radio, your mind creates the image for you. When you watch television, a ready-made image is flashed before your eyes. The early days of television were days of great creativity, when the questions of âhowâ and âwhat should we doâ were present at all levels of production, ownership and programming. In the early 1950s, a young professor from Stanford University named Stanley Donner was creatively engaged in the development of public television in San Francisco, California. In the last 50 or so years, Professor Donner has participated in and followed the development of this mind-boggling medium.
Dr. Stanley Donner recommends âThe Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoyâs View of History,â by Sir Isaiah Berlin.
Originally Broadcast: September 11, 1998
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Dr. Stanley Donner â Origins of Public Television
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