The network was founded as the Educational Television and Radio Center (ETRC) in November 1952 by a grant from the Ford Foundation's Fund for Adult Education.
The special was produced in June 1968 at public television station WITF-TV in Hershey, Pennsylvania for National Educational Television (now PBS).
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Among his other contributions to the use of electro-acoustic music in television were numerous station IDs and commercials, including that of the National Educational Television network (the forerunner to PBS), the 1966 CBS "in color" bumper, the news sounder for the ABC Radio Networks, and the 1965–1976 Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures Television logos.
Louisiana Diary is a documentary film produced and directed by KQED (TV)'s Richard O. Moore for National Educational Television in 1963.