Programs, Correspondence, 1968, August-December (1968)

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WCNY-TV, Black on Black Page 3. While emphasizing the need for this special series, Petry added that Channel 24 would continue to build on its continuing integrated” attention to urban problems and human relations. "WCNY-TV is not suddenly ’going black.* We have always had black hosts, panel¬ ists, audience participants, and guest personalities on local produc¬ tions such as Mohammed Ali, author John H. Williams, Jet magazine editor Robert Johnson, Justice Department*s Ben Holman, State Human Rights Commissioner Robert J. Mangum, and many others.” When you add in NET'S Black Journal and the many other EEN and NET documentaries and information programs that Channel 24 has presented together with its local productions, the station has already established a record of continuing prime time exposure to the black dilemma facing our society and to black talent and opinion. ’’Nevertheless, ” Petry added, "we hope this series is in fact, going to be something more personal, less didactic, and more productive for the local black community. It will be their program and not our idea of what may be good for them.” Paul introduced the closed circuit screening by citing the Koerner Commission’s recommendations to the media and by referring to Ben Holman’s (Assistant Director for Media Relations, Community Rela¬ tions Service, U.S. Department of Justice) specific recommendations: "the problems of the ghetto are past the point of occasional special programming, they demand probing week in and week out by all broad¬ casters as ’routine* programming." Representatives from area public and private schools requested that the series also be scheduled for in-school use by teachers and high school pupils. "This is exactly the kind of program that our teachers are begging for, the kind of information and concept that the white teacher just can’t provide," said Dr. Franklyn S. Barry, Super¬ intendent of Syracuse City Schools. Petry explained that the special group sessions would be organized in neighborhood schools, centers, churches, or libraries. "We’ve literally got to build an audience from nothing; special promo¬ tional techniques will be needed; every black organization and group will be asked to help spread the word." Some of the dominant themes discussed for the series are black dignity; constructive black economic and political power; black education, business and jobs, culture and aspirations. Foundation and other underwriting for the series has not been secured and the series is being produced through the use of limited general production funds with the production assistance of the Syracuse Urban League. -MORE-