Public television and the public sphere

Abstract

The historical ambiguities over what makes U. S. public television public were foregrounded in the 1988 creation of the Independent Television Serivce. This article analyzes those historical ambiguities in relation to the concept of the public sphere, a social realm separate from economic and state interests. It proposes that public television's survival depends on its becoming an electronic space within the public sphere.

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