Educational television stations -- United States.
Topic
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI) records
Collection
0173-MMC-NPBA
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI) records
Abstract
The Midwest Program of Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI) was a nonprofit organization of educators and television producers who pioneered efforts to transmit instructional television programming before the advent of cable and satellite. The program began as an experiment in 1959 to use DC-6 AB planes to broadcast signals to schools. It operated through a grant from the Ford Foundation from 1961 to 1963. Then, from 1963 to 1968, MPATI relied on membership fees. MPATI ceased production...