The Independent Television Service

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• Independent Television-makers and Public Communications Policy: A Seminar Conference to Promote Telecommunications Diversity for the 1980s Bibliography

  Working Papers on independents and the system and on legislation. Presented June 6-8, 1979.

• Independents on Television Bibliography

• Independent Documentary Fund Chronology

  The Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts created the Independent Documentary Fund at WNET-Channel 13 in New York in 1977

• Media Independents Push for Access Bibliography

  Independent video and film producers increased political organizing to gain programming and funding access; AIVF lobbied the Corporation for Public Broadcasting during its reorganization after the Carnegie Commission report and advocated a clear definition of independents and Program Fund set-asides. A dispute at WNET-Channel 13 over four peer-panel-selected films produced the Coalition To Make Public Television Public, meetings with president Jay Iselin on Feb. 11 and a protest at Lincoln Center on Feb. 24, and scrutiny of station finances. Independent feature filmmakers formed the Independent Feature Project (director Joy Pereths) after a New York Film Festival market (Sept. 1979); national organizing includes a Minnewaska meeting (April 1979) leading to a NAMAC conference in Boulder (May 29–31).

• Independent Television Makers and Public Communications Policy: A Seminar-Conference to Promote Telecommunications for Diversity in the 1980's. The Television Establishment, The Independent Producer, and the Search for Diversity Bibliography

• Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers Chronology

  The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF) organized a National Task Force on Public Broadcasting and presented testimony to the Subcommittee on Communications, House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee on September 7-9, 1977. AIVF served as a rallying point for issues of independent makers on public television.