The Vanishing Vision: The Inside Story of Public Television

This book gives you just about anything you need to know about public broadcasting from its early stages in radio clear up to its publication date in the mid 90's. Not only do you get great personal accounts of James Day's journey from that start of KQED in San Fransisco to him heading NET, but there is a great overview of the machine that is public broadcasting. The book commemorates educational/public broadcastings journey from its infancy and is a fantastic read for any who love public television and wish to know more.

Anyone who wants a first-person account of life as an insider in public broadcasting would do well to read this book. The author was head of WQED, San Francisco and WNET, New York as well as head of NET, the educational network which preceded PBS. Day's account shows how the good intentions of those who founded the system paved the road to where public broadcasting finds itself today...