National Educational Television

Not to be confused with NET or National Empowerment Television.

National Educational Television
NET logo from April 1960 to November 1964 and again from June 1967 to October 1970
CountryUnited States
HeadquartersNew York City, U.S.
Ownership
OwnerFord Foundation (1954–1970)
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1967–1970)
History
FoundedNovember 21, 1952 (1952-11-21) in Washington, D.C., U.S.
LaunchedMay 16, 1954 (1954-05-16) (as a network)
ClosedOctober 4, 1970 (1970-10-04)
(16 years, 4 months and 18 days)
Replaced byPublic Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Former namesEducational Television and Radio Center
National Educational Television and Radio Center
The color NET logo was incorporated into a model building at the beginning and end of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood episodes on February 10, 1969. The NET "building" was later remodeled as a brick building with windows, but kept the lopsided roof that was part of the NET logo.[citation needed]

National Educational Television (NET) is a former American educational broadcast television network owned by the Ford Foundation and later co-owned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It operated from May 16, 1954, to October 4, 1970, and was succeeded by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which has memberships with many television stations that were formerly part of NET.

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) provided funds for cataloging the NET collection, and as part of an on-going preservation effort with the Library of Congress, over 10,000 digitized television programs from the non-commercial TV stations and producers spanning 20 years from 1952 to 1972 have been contributed to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.[1]

  1. ^ "National Educational Television". americanarchive.org. Retrieved January 20, 2021.