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Show TV8—THEHERALD. Provo Utah. Monday, December 17, 1979 NationalPublic Radio Feels Growth Pains role is essential in setting All Things Considered four member station quarters. If a tape's the tone of the show since 1974; and Barbara reports each hour, Strand quality is ‘not up to snufing program, All Things After the first few dry Hocter. a former NBC said ATC relies heavily f," he said they probably native to commercial Considered. runs, NPR decided the reporter and writer, who on staff reports or phone won't useit. radio, has been having NPRsearched a year show was going to flop had recently been an ATC interviews from NPR Strand said’ member some growingpains. longer than planned for and, 10 days before the weekend host station reports also were bases in Washington Its most recent people to produce Morn- show's at a disadvantage when targeted Lewis says reaction to New York and Chicago. problem has been NPR's ing Edition. Once November debut. fired thefirst three programs “NPR argues that the pitted against an internew Morning Edition an producers were found, the executive producer. has been“verypositive.” folks out here in the view by Susan Stamberg audio news magazine that they quickly hired two the producer and two Butin Springfield, Ill sticks don't have the the widely acclaimed was designed as a morning hosts whose showhosts. technical background to ATC co-host. Mike Strand is miffed And Strand objected to quality “It just wasn't headed A reporter for WSSR produce the way ATC conducts anywhere, there was no one of NPR's 228 member material,” Strand said Most program some of its phone interformat.” said Richard stations, Strand said Lewis. assistant director NPR, particularly All material, whether news views with memberstaof newsand information ‘Things Consideredis not reports or live concerts tions. He said if they see He said the problem, living up to its early is sent through the mail an article in the however, was more than policy to use approx- on tapes — ‘‘an Washington Post or New the sometimes illogical imately half of the enormously limiting fac- York Times, they call up order of the pieces. Programming from tor,”’ said NPR President and want the story repeated just the way “There was too much member stations Frank Mankiewicz. Theonlyotherlink with they read it and ‘wantit happytalk. a forced con- throughout the United viviality that showed no States and Puerto Rico. the stations is through ready to go. with french “The choices of one telephone line that fries.” respect for the listeners,"" Lewis said, material continues to transmits with lower summing up the general lean more toward voice quality. Diamond Setting ... Remounts feeling at NPR. By having to send Washington They're So that Morning Edi- not relying on the reports on tapes, Strand RingSizing ... Retipping tion could start as member stations said it is impossible to — DIAMOND WATCHES — scheduled, NPR rounded Strand said. know what happens to Though Morning Edi- them once they arrive at tion uses about three to NPR Washington headae EVERYTHING MUST GO!! } . WASHINGTON (UPI) National Public Radio the 10-year-old alter counterpart of NPR's award-winning even- What will help spur NPR cut ofits seeming adolescence is the linking of 192 member stations by satellite. The system to be in full force by April 1980, will be able to tran smit highfidelity, stereo sound to and from anywherein the country is Means no more taped reports and the ability to transmit from four to 20 different programs at the same time. Up to 16 production Companiesacross the nation will each be able to feed directly into the network to transmitlive congressional debates, Concerts, news coverage and plays. TV Offerings Won't Improve eaeeae EVERYTHING MUST GO!! 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Minnow, former Federal Communications Commission chairman and now head of Public Broadcasting Services, said the mere existence of multiple media and the increasing number of television channels will not improve the message carried to viewers. Minnow who years ago termed television a “vast wasteland,”” commented to viewers in the 1980s. said Minnow will become more important than the mediumitself “The next quartercentury in mass communicationsis going to be marked by a radical up- heaval. There will be many more messages competing for attention he said. “‘In the ‘80s, the messageis going to over- come the importance of the medium. “The question now,”’ he added, “‘is whether that wasteland will be irrigated or further eroded by the new glut of chan- nels criss-crossing the landscape.” Minnowsaid as public inremarks prepared for a meeting of the Academy television enters the new of Television Arts and decadeit will “embrace Sciences in Los Angeles. the new age, rather than The message delivered hold it at armslength.” And hesaid to use new technology wisely, public television is being reorganized into three sections — one for primetime programming, another for special audience programs. and a third for educational and instructional programming. 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