Scheduled to appear before the Subcommittee on April 12 were members of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television including Chairman James R. Killian, Oveta Culp Hobby, Edwin H. Land, and Leonard Woodcock; Ford Foundation president McGeorge Bundy and Fred Friendly, the Foundation's consultant on television; and John W. Kiermaier, president of the Eastern Educational Television Network. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) The National Educational Television network interconnected some 70 affiliate stations for a series of special broadcasts of taped highlights of the Senate Communications Subcommittee hearings on the Magnuson bill for public television. The public television bill, proposed by Senator Warren Magnusson (D - WA) calls for the establishment and funding of a non-profit educational broadcasting corporation, allocation of additional funds for the construction of educational television facilities, and authorization for the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to conduct a comprehensive study of instructional and educational television. The Subcommittee, chaired by Senator John Pastore (D - RI), held the hearings April 11 through the 14th and April 25 through the 28th. NET presented hour-long summaries of each day's proceedings. The Senate Communications Subcommittee Hearings were produced by NET through the facilities of its Washington DC affiliate, WETA-TV. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
