Scope Note: There are no records in the archives of NET for this series yet. The series was reserved for the records of the Board in the hope and expectation that records will be forthcoming at some future date. Scattered minutes of the Board are available in the files of the Vice President for Development and the Vice President for Network Affairs, and an occasional letter to or from the Board can be found in most of the other series.

Scope Note: The records consist of fragmented files from the President's office and some files from the office of the Vice President for Administration. No files exist in the archive yet for the position of Senior Vice President, which was occupied by Robert Hudson from 1965 to 1971. Most of Hudson's activities prior to his appointment as Sr. V. P. are documented in the Program Subject File and the Program Title File as well as throughout the collection, since his influence was felt throughout NET.

Scope Note: The records of the President's Office consist of a remnant of the Early Central File (1953-1962) and a portion of John White's file (1953-1966). Together they constitute the primary documentation on the origins of NET at the ETRC; early efforts to promote educational television in the United States; the nature of the presidential office at NET during the first 14 years of NET's 20 year existence; and NET's relationship with the federal government and other organizations concerned with educational broadcasting.

Scope Note: Nearly three-fourths of this file is correspondence, but it also contains printed material, report forms, shipping memos, grant applications and awards, and near-print material from stations, foundations, organizations. Arranged in a subject file, the two largest categories are "Meetings and Conferences," where much information on the origins of NET can be found, and the "National Association of Educational Broadcasters," where documentation on the relationship between NAEB and NET can be found, as well as information on the program production grants they jointly administered. These ETRC-NAEB radio grant-in-aid application files often contain script treatments of the program for which the station was requesting financial support.

In addition to the grants and meetings, the file concerns radio in general, grass roots efforts to establish NET and ETV -- including correspondence with individuals, commercial TV stations, educational organizations and institutions, foreign countries, and other organizations of all kinds. Also included is documentation of the early concern of ETV stations over such problems as distribution, production, technical aspects such as kinescopes, promotion of educational broadcasting, and how to stimulate new and creative thinking in producing for ETV. The people most in evidence in the file are H. K. Newburn, Lyle M. Nelson, Barton Griffin, and George L. Hall. There is some John White material in the NAEB meetings folders.

Probably only a core of the original central file exists, as it appears that, in addition to the normal amount of weeding done by NET secretaries prior to shipping, certain folders were removed when the subject they covered became the responsibility of a newly-created office.

Scope Note: Correspondence arranged alphabetically by station call letters; including requests for programming and general information with answers detailing nature and stage of development of NET.

Scope Note: Mainly inquiries about NET services with answers. arrangement alphabetically by country.

Scope Note: Both of the above folders contain excellent documentation of the origins, purpose and early policies of ETRC.

Scope Note: In 1954: information on early programming efforts, solicitation of programs, policy decisions, and establishment of the working structure of NET.

Scope Note: The grants-in-aid program originated under ETRC. Originally, funds (In the amount of $40,000 annually, plus $2000 NAEB administrative expense) were handed over to the NAEB for disbursement. As the program became organized, it was decided to modify that plan because the ETRC was not a grant-making organization and needed to take more direct responsibility for the radio grants program. So, the grants-in-aid were made directly by the Center, after screening of applications and recommendations from the NAEB Grants-in-Aid Committee. A program associate was added to the Center staff to assist that committee in matters of management and procedure, to provide liaison between the Center and the NAEB and to follow through with grantees on matters relating to completion of series production. Later, a special three-year plan was initiated out of a desire for a less random, more unified relationship between radio series. The plan provided for a grant of $100,000 per year for three years: 1. to continue the grants-in-aid and 2. to provide for the commissioning of special radio series. ETRC initiated the proposals for the latter and the NAEB Grants-in-Aid Committee acted in an advisory capacity, in addition to evaluating and making recommendations on applications for grants-in-aid.

Scope Note: John White's presidential files are not as voluminous (5 boxes for eleven years) or informative as one would expect. In fact, they are downright disappointing. Their paucity is no doubt due to: weeding performed by NET secretaries; retention of files for James Day's use; possible documentation of some of White's activities in other NET files or in a personal file which he still has in his possession; and the certainty that much of his work was performed over the telephone or in personal conferences.

About 50% of this file is correspondence; the other half is comprised of annotated printed and near-print matter, reports, scripts, clippings, lists, statistics, speeches, articles, notes, etc. The bulk of the material pertains to the period 1962-1964, although there is some material passed on to him from Newburn, and thus the early inclusive date of 1953. Part of the file arrived loose and separate from the rest without clear indications as to the original filing arrangement, but there were evidences that it was alphabetical, so such an arrangement was used.

There is very little information herein on the internal operation or events of NET; rather, the files relate to White's personal activities, such as speech making, chairing committees, etc., and his professional activities as head of NET. It is not easy to distinguish between the two. As can be seen from the container list, most of the files pertain to organizations, institutions and events outside NET, such as NAEB, NITL, JCET, U.S.-H.E.W., BBC, etc. Rather than being a criticism of the paucity of presidential files, this observation is probably an accurate indicator of the functions of the president's office during the years White occupied it, consisting mostly of outside promotion and fundraising work, educating others about ETV, and working out policies and long-range plans for a growing TV network, while the day-to-day business of producing and distributing television programming was left to others. Newburn was deeply involved in the day-to-day administration of the Center and in satisfying the immediate needs of the stations, while White increasingly wore the cloak and filled the sophisticated role of good-will ambassador at large on behalf of ETV.

However, White did involve himself in the actual production work from time to time. Such a program was "Championship Debate", produced by Larry Pickard, where most of the pre-production correspondence was conducted by White. In fact, the 1962-63 folder of correspondence in Pickard's file was really White's file, but was apparently given to Pickard by White for the former's use, as it arrived at the SHSW among Pickard's files. (See 8E/1/5)

Scope Note: The files consist of about 60 per cent correspondence and 40 per cent reports. Covering mainly 1960-1966, they are arranged in an alphabetical subject file preceded by the general correspondence and the financial memos. The main subjects are FAE grants, correspondence with affiliates, FCC hearings on non-commercial use of TV satellites in 1966, programs, and NET Film Service, whose correspondence includes promotional literature, order forms, articles, and program descriptions. Much material is Bayley's as Public Affairs Editor, and the only in depth files are his, on Regional Reports. The files are highly fragmentary as documentation of the office of Vice President for Administration. Especially sparse is the information on the Kenneth Yourd years.

Scope Note: As with many series, these files are fragmentary. For the period covered, however, they offer an adequate picture of the range of activities of the Development Office.

The files are composed of 60 per cent correspondence and 40 per cent reports, proposals, and an occasional script or script outline. They are arranged in three basic files: memoranda; a general correspondence and subject file; and underwriting correspondence. This was probably the arrangement employed by the office for development.

The memoranda are arranged according to the officer in development receiving them. They cover 1963-1966 and show how the development office functioned within NET. There is much that is routine, but almost nothing trivial. One finds here not just information about fund raising, but reactions to specific programs and program ideas from development and other NET personnel. There was much candor between departments over the quality and pertinence of prospective shows, and one sees the origin, critique and culmination of ideas.

Memos of unusual significance within this file include four to Winter D. Horton in 1966:

• January 6 - Pointed critique of educational television from Edwin R. Bayley.
• January 25- Possible program on hazards of smoking
• June 15 - Problems of color production
• September 23 - Lengthy report on Midwest trip in quest of underwriting.

The general correspondence and subject file contains correspondence, statistics, proposals, reports, and budget materials for 1959-1968. (Mainly 1962-66) Arranged alphabetically, most of the material relates to individual programs, specific underwriters, NET Film Service, and the Ford Foundation. As in the Memoranda File, internal NET operations are also revealed here, but the information is more pointed toward a specific program, subject or underwriter. One can see the progress of a program from an idea to actuality, from the development perspective.

In the folders kept and arranged by program, one can readily see the efforts made by Development in behalf of individual programs, often with several underwriters before achieving success. In addition to correspondence with underwriters and program prospectuses, there are many internal memos here too, documenting more fully and specifically what the Memoranda File indicated, namely Development's need for very close relationships with both Programming and Public Information in order to be aware of programming needs, to know prospective programs thoroughly in order to sell them to underwriters, and to gain additional help in the presentation of ideas about prospective programs. Occasionally, there is an unusual amount of outside correspondence with persons other than underwriters, as for example, reactions to "Dynamics of Desegregation 1960-63", Box 4, Folder 12.

The underwriters correspondence covering the years 1957-66 is arranged alphabetically by underwriter with more than one firm or institution per folder and with the O-Z segment largely missing. The types of documents are basically the same as those contained in the program folders. However, one can see here the approach taken with a given underwriter over a number of months and years, rather than merely in behalf of a specific program. One can examine methods of approach and failures as well as successes. These files complement those arranged by program then, in documenting much more fully the actual process of fund raising. The failures often tell us more about NET than the successes, as to its rise and eventual demise.

Items of specific or singular interest in the general correspondence and subject file include:

• The extensive file on ETV Audience Survey, which one would normally expect to find in the files of the Program Utilization Department.
• Minutes of Board of Directors Meetings, 1960-66.
• The folder on Children's Programming. One of few in entire collection.
• Folder--"Development Office Reports" contains memo 8-2-1961, W. Kraetzer to J. White entitled, "Random Thoughts on The Development Office; Its Past, Present and Future."
• Ford Foundation--Basic Financing Proposal, box 2 folder 14, submitted by NETRC Sept. 1961. Excellent document containing statement of NETRC's purpose, accomplishments and future plans, along with request for $500 million permanent endowment.
• Ford Foundation--Proposal for National Instructional Television Materials Service, box 2 folder 15, describes NET as the "natural home" for such a service and stresses need for quality and "other-than-local" programming.
• NET Film Service, Inc. folders contain the number of bookings of some films July-Dec., 1959.
• The Face of Sweden, box 7, folders 4 & 5, contains an unusually large amount of correspondence documenting the complex production and fundraising aspects of this program. Also includes some viewer reaction.
• Program Suggestions, box 7, folder 12. This folder allows one to see what NET rejected as well as what they produced.
• Requests for Promotional Films--box 8, folder 1-3 and box 7, folder 13. Films are "Knowledge and Ideas", and "National Educational Television". Requests are routine and repetitive, but serve as an indicator of interest in ETV. They include some reactions to the films.

Scope Note: With the exception of the records described above, and an occasional document in the various other series, the sole files documenting business affairs activities at NET consist of nineteen archive boxes of computer printouts covering the years 1964-66 that appear to have been generated by the comptroller's office. The computer printouts are essentially a "balance sheet" for individual programs and series in Cultural Affairs and Public Affairs, showing the program's current financial (fiscal) status. Information listed includes amount budgeted for the program, additional credits, expenditures, and balance remaining in the program account. They are arranged in numerical order by their business affairs number, from CA 1 to CA 298, and PA 1 to PA 312, with over 200 numbers missing. The files also contain an occasional memo, press release, expenditure request, or cost report.

The files have not been weeded. The arrangement within folders is roughly chronological. These records are among the very few we have documenting explicit use of NET funds, detailed, broken down, showing both purpose and amount of spending for specific programs. The sources of funds and the rationale for giving them can be found in other files (e.g. Development, Program Subject File, Program Title File). These files should be retained until we have all the records of NET, and are more familiar with the extent and nature of financial information on NET. Then, or before if use demands it, they should be arranged more thoroughly and weeded. At that time, program titles could be added to the folders. Also, further information from the comptroller's office is needed to completely and intelligently evaluate the printouts.

Scope Note: This series is the second largest and most complex within the NET collection. It reflects the complexity and importance of the departments and organizations concerned with "network affairs" during the years 1954-1966.

The series is arranged in two large files: the Washington office and VP for Network Affairs. The former includes the files NET inherited from the JCEB, the JCET, and from the FAE. The FAE grant files were not generated in the Washington office, but since they also concern station activation, it seemed appropriate to file them here.

[Quote from July, 1962 NET proposal to HEW for a Title VII grant to finance station establishment:

"The files in our Washington office are arranged by reserved channels and contain the entire past and present history of inquiries and efforts to activate each such channel, many dating back prior to the reservations themselves. NETRC is also the custodian of the files of the Fund for Adult Education's matching grants awarded to many ETV stations now on the air. These files provide much experience that may be useful as present-day efforts toward activation proceed. In addition, NETRC's current files hold correspondence from more than 60 communities where today there is interest in activation."]

Scope Note: These files were almost entirely inherited by NET. They comprise some files of the JCET, the JCEB, and the FAE roughly from 1950 to 1961. NET's primary contribution was one of caretaker and custodian although they added to the files during the years 1961-1963. These files are arranged as follows:

Scope Note: This file is placed first in order because it documents the first NET-related effort at station activation through direct financing. JCET became a part of NET's history almost 10 years after FAE did, hence the order.

The FAE, using Ford Foundation money, existed to establish ETV stations with the stipulation that they provide programming to NET for distribution and that they be an outlet for NET programming. The influence of C. Scott Fletcher can be seen here. FAE also awarded grants directly to NAEB to produce radio programs using local stations' studios, equipment, and personnel.

The FAE was established in April 1951 and concluded operations on 30 June 1961, when NET took over the relationship with those local stations that had not completed the 8-year provision of their grant contract with FAE. Arranged alphabetically by state and thereunder by the name of the organization or city receiving the grant. The grant files contain the following types of documents: correspondence between FAE and local people responsible for ETV from pre-grant through transfer of title of equipment from FAE to local station; reports of FAE personnel on visits to local stations; conference proceedings of locally called meetings on ETV; local proposal to FAE; clippings; telegrams; proceedings of hearings before state legislatures on ETV; minutes of board and An. Gen. Mtgs. of local sponsoring body; also by-laws on some; reports on type of programs being offered locally; published studies on uses of ETV; 1958 NET questionnaire on content of local programming; local fund raising campaign brochures and pamphlets; formal agreement signed by local sponsoring body and FAE; lists of equipment requests and purchases made through FAE Grant; and floor plans and station plans.

Money from the grants were to be used only for purposes of equipping the ETV facility, and not to offset operating expenses. Therefore, a grant application was accepted by FAE only after it had been established that the station was a going concern and that most of the leg work had been done.

To obtain an FAE matching grant the station had to present an FCC construction permit, a certification of its non-profit, tax exempt status, and a detailed engineering report indicating specifically how the money was to be used. The station also had to match the amount of the grant 2 to 1 from local private sources. The station had to keep accurate books and records showing use of the proceeds and matching funds and they had to move with reasonable expedition toward applying the grant and matching funds toward the installation of a broadcasting station. If the station successfully broadcast for a period of three years subject to further conditions relative to the quality and nature of the programming supplied to the community, then, after an additional 5 year waiting period, they were given permanent title to the equipment they had been using.

These files are valuable for the picture they present of how a local ETV station got started, the problems it faced to keep going, the growth of the station, and its relevance in providing education of liberal character for adult population. The files also give a picture of how ETV grew nationally and how the FAE helped in this process through its grants and moral support.

Scope Note: The Joint Council on Educational Television Files, (boxes 155-176), are arranged in sixteen categories. A list and description of the contents of each category, with appropriate box numbers, is given below. The material in each category is arranged in reverse chronological order.

Scope Note: This committee was the immediate forerunner of JCET and the files contain general information on the formation of JCET, especially regarding witnesses' statements and other preparations for the FCC hearings. There is also a file on participation of adult education groups in educational television.

Scope Note: Provides a rather clear history of JCET in its early years. It includes; Reports of JCET materials, miscellaneous publications and materials for distribution, JCET news releases, history and development - Mostly staff accounts of progress and activities.

Scope Note: Official resolutions to form JCET, clippings of FCC hearings, charts of functional operations of JCET, and the JCET principles of operation files.

Scope Note: Reports of hearings made before the FCC. These reports are filed alphabetically under individual congressmen's names.

Scope Note: Reports of FCC findings and investigations. There are also some news clippings and official FCC hearing transcripts.

Scope Note: This brief is filed in eight parts. It covers statements in support of educational television and its specific activities and programs. These statements are made by administrators and executives of educational television organizations, on the national and state level, as well as by educators throughout the country. Each statement is filed alphabetically by state, then by city or organization within each state.

Scope Note: News clippings of resolutions regarding educational television made by local and regional civic groups. There is also a memo relating to legislation in various states in 1960 and a summary of state legislation in 1953. This section includes a rather extensive file dealing with hearings and the development of educational television in New York during its early years. Also included are minority and majority reports to the governor and legislature of New York by the Temporary Commission on the Use of Television for Educational Purposes.

Scope Note: Articles and by-laws for individual states involved with educational television, information on charters, articles of incorporation, financial plans for educational television stations, and state plans for the operation of educational television stations.

Scope Note: The 1955 report on the legal status of educational television stations already operating. It also includes memos to participating stations regarding FCC's indefinite extension of reservations of non-commercial channels for educational television use.

Scope Note: Includes an engineering handbook of educational television operations, a layout for an educational television studio in a single story building, a glossary of television terms, maps, and geographic guides giving approximate potential coverage on channels reserved for educational television.

Scope Note: Individual reports of JCET delegates to constituent member conferences, seminars, and institutes. This section also includes official conference reports and proceedings and the reports of the institutes held at Ohio State University from 1958 to 1962. Each conference is in a separate folder with the names of the organizations in alphabetical order.

Scope Note: Mailing lists for individuals and organizations that received JCET correspondence and printed material.

Scope Note: Correspondence with JCET regarding publication, publication costs, Broadcast news clippings, 1956, copies of the JCET Educational Television Factsheet and Television Digest, and printed material re: JCET

Scope Note: A file of special subjects relating to JCET and educational television in general. It includes bibliographies, check lists of educational television operations, staff studies, and JCET's report on Two Years of Progress in Educational Television, and material regarding television in public schools.

Scope Note: All articles and speeches are listed in alphabetical order either by author or title and all deal with educational television in one phase or another.

Scope Note: Proposed and accepted budgets for JCET.

Scope Note: JCET correspondence, 1953-1960, with the Ford Foundation Fund for Adult Education, Fund for Advancement.

Scope Note: Arrangements and financial records for an informal information program entitled, "Freedom Tours."

Scope Note: The State and City Files (boxes 1-94), are arranged alphabetically by states and within each state by cities according to the FCC's geographical allocation plan. The files are arranged in reverse chronological order and include first a general state file, followed by individual city files. Each city file includes topical categories in the following order:

• Correspondence - The correspondence ranges from requests to NET for literature on establishing a local educational television program, to requests and suggestions for aid with specific problems.
• Formal Applications to FCC - These files usually include transcript copies of the original applications, general information regarding facilities, and maps of radio beam spans.
• Reports - Reports include progress reports on the success of educational television, some news clippings, and survey reports on the effectiveness of courses and programs presented as a part of a city's regular educational program.
• Studies - This section includes studies made by boards of education, local educational television personnel, and sometimes by legislators regarding the effectiveness and influence of popular opinion. Sometimes catalogs and brochures of specific studies are included.
• Legislation - This is not a complete file; but does include copies of state and/or city legislation relating to educational television or pleas by interested parties for legislation.
• Meetings or Conferences - This section includes official reports of governors' conferences on education or reports by state and national representatives to various conferences relating to educational television.

In many instances, where a city has limited educational television activity, the above topical categories may not be in separate file folders, but are combined within a single folder with the name of the city as its heading. In every instance the topics are in the order given above, whether in separate folders or in one folder. Many of the city folders do not include all of these topical categories.

Scope Note: The Publicity Files, (boxes 95-154), are arranged in three categories: Publicity Files by State and City, Publicity Files by Subject Headings, and Publicity Files Relating Specifically to Closed Circuit Television. All of the folders in the three categories are arranged in alphabetical order by states and within each state by cities. The contents of each folder are arranged in reverse chronological order.

Publicity Files by State and City (boxes 95-143) - Consists of news clippings from local newspapers either announcing forthcoming educational television programs, or giving resumés of past programs and legislative action dealing with educational television. There are a few publicity brochures, but most of the material is news clippings.

Publicity Files by Subject Headings (boxes 143-150) - Chiefly consists of news clippings. There are also a few brochures. These files are arranged by special subjects such as foreign, editorials of nationwide newspapers regarding educational television, news clippings from electronics magazines, cartoons, music, sciences and math, and The Voice of America.

Publicity Files Relating Specifically to Closed Circuit Television (boxes 150-154) - Arranged under four separate titles as follows:

Scope Note: The Joint Council on Educational Broadcasting Files (boxes 177-182) are arranged in three categories. A list and description of the contents of each category, with appropriate box numbers, is listed below. The material in each category is arranged in reverse chronological order.

Scope Note: Listed in alphabetical order, each member file has the following subject files arranged in the following order: correspondence, publications of the individual organizations, surveys, comments, and publicity.

Scope Note: Official reports, organized alphabetically by states, of educational television standing and operational progress.

Scope Note: The Miscellaneous Files (boxes 183-184), are arranged in two main categories. A list of the contents of each category is listed below. The material in each category is arranged in reverse chronological order. This series should be considered as a special file series that is an extension of JCET activities.

Scope Note: This series consists almost entirely of records generated by the Station Relations Department and the office of the VP for Network Affairs; however, there are also records from the department of Field Services. These records include correspondence, legal documents, printed reports, minutes of meetings, memos of Field Services and Station Relations, and promotional material from affiliated stations. They are organized into an alphabetical subject file.

[Note: The main reason that the files of the Station Relations and Field Services Departments were combined with the records of the VP for Network Affairs under the latter title is that they arrived at the archives hopelessly interspersed. Also, Robertson was successively the Director of Station Relations and VP for Network Affairs. The duties of those two and of Field Services as well were very similar.]

Among the more extensive records in this series are the records of affiliates' meetings, records regarding the FCC, foreign correspondence, station profiles--arranged by state and station call letters, information on over 70 affiliates, records regarding JCET-JCEB, the NAEB, and the NETRC Board of Directors. Numerous throughout are also the folders (1 to 5 each) relating to state and regional commissions, organizations and networks, all related to educational television or broadcasting, arranged under the name of state or organization.

Scope Note: Includes information on conflict of interest with stations in Don Fedderson memo, Sept. 27, 1960. Also, August, 1958 memo to ETRC Board from ETRC affiliates on the future needs of ETV.

Scope Note: Memos, letters, proposals, agendas, minutes, lists, clippings, and announcements, concerning station visits, contacts, identifying problems and areas where the Center could be of greatest assistance; discussing programming--ETRC offerings, what local could produce, how to distribute it; discussing equipment--VTR grants et al.; and discussing commercial competition, local citizenry support, and legal ramifications of station activation. A fair amount of routine in these folders. See also Early Central File, Series 2A.

Scope Note: Many of the early letters here were written by Development and later transferred to Field Services. They regard primarily requests for information on ETV and the mechanics of establishing a station.

Scope Note: Sent to the stations in 1960 by NET to determine which in-school videotapes and kinescopes were available for exchange use in direct teaching by television.

Scope Note: A file maintained by Station Relations consisting of a library of information re: each affiliate including a history of the station, vital statistics such as - capital investment, programming profile and sample, schedules, schedule analyses, questionnaires, correspondence, clippings, press releases from the station. Effective May 29, 1962 a second file was to contain in addition to routine correspondence, a fully executed Affiliation Agreement renewed annually, a formal Videotape Recorder Grant document, a statement of Proof of Insurance, a complete Videotape Recorder Application Exhibit, and an Authorization of Payment to Ampex Corporation.

Scope Note: Instituted in 1960 to improve communications between the Center and affiliates. It was a weekly briefing on important NETRC activities of the previous seven days including semi-confidential advice, tips on up-coming programs, or projects worthy of note, and in general, was to convey to the affiliates a feeling of being "within the circle".

Scope Note: The files that are described below comprise almost exclusively the publication and reference files of the Office of P. I. Despite P.I.'s increasingly closer relationship with NET's other departments, notably programming, Network Affairs and Distribution, these files contain almost no documentation of that working relationship.

Scope Note: This file, 1958-1963 (most 1960-61), concerns industry and professional awards that NET won, tried for, or was simply interested in. Both domestic and foreign awards are included. Among the more prestigious awards won by NET were an Emmy, Peabody, Sylvania and American Film Festival. It appears that Public Information was responsible for maintenance of the file, supplying answers to public requests about its contents and possibly helping with compilation of application for each award. Arranged by year and alphabetically thereunder. Most files contain correspondence, application forms, and printed information re: the award.

Scope Note: Running from volume I to VI, 1954-1961, this file includes copies of Program Reports, 1954-1956 and Inside Channels, 1956-60. During 1960, Inside Channels was regularized as primarily an affiliate newsletter by the Station Relations Department. It was distributed monthly by the Office of Public Information and had replaced Program Reports in 1956 as the Center's "newspaper."

Scope Note: The miscellaneous unsorted publications consist of announcements of programs available to TV stations or ready for film distribution, pamphlets, papers and reprints of articles concerning ETV in general and NET as a fourth network, instructional television materials as well as a few copies of NET News. NET News was a quarterly publication with a circulation of about 15,000 in 1960. It was distributed to outsiders as well as affiliates. The Department of Public Information was responsible for its planning, creation and writing.

Scope Note: NET kept two well organized files of newsclippings, one chronologically and one by subject. Boxes 4b - 9 contain the subject file, arranged alphabetically, by the first word in the program title, including definite and indefinite articles. A few files relate to general subjects rather than a specific program such as "Intertel" and "CBS". The subject clippings are extremely comprehensive but seem to cover only the years 1965-1968, whereas the chronological file, (boxes 10-17) covers 1957-1968 with, however, no clips for 1958. This file is an excellent beginning source for press reaction to NET. Missing, of course, are NET's early years, 1953-1956.