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Mississippi Public Broadcasting is the public broadcasting state network in Mississippi, United States. It is owned by the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television, an agency of the Mississippi state government that holds the licenses for all of the PBS and NPR member stations in the state. ==History== Mississippi was a relative latecomer to public broadcasting. By the late 1960s, it was the only state east of the Mississippi River without an educational television station licensed within its borders. The only areas of the state to get a clear signal from a National Educational Television (NET) or PBS station were the northwestern counties (from Memphis' WKNO) and the counties along the Gulf Coast (from New Orleans' WYES-TV and Mobile's Alabama Educational Television outlet, WEIQ). Finally, in 1969, the Mississippi Legislature created the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television to create a locally-focused educational television service for Mississippi. After almost a year of planning, WMAA-TV, channel 29 (now WMPN-TV) debuted on February 1, 1970 as the state's first educational television station. It immediately joined PBS. The initial broadcast was written by Jeanne Lucket and produced and directed by Mims Wright, then Director of Public Affairs at Jackson NBC affiliate WLBT. Only four months after beginning operations, WMAA received unwanted national attention when it refused to carry ''Sesame Street'' because of its racially integrated cast. That decision was reversed 22 days later after a nationwide outcry.〔http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jan/08/entertainment/et-book8?pg=2〕〔http://www.newsweek.com/id/199141〕 Six other stations began operation over the next few years, and the state network became known as Mississippi Educational Television, or simply ETV. Public radio came even later, arriving in the state in 1983. Eventually, Public Radio in Mississippi or PRM expanded to eight stations throughout the state. In 2005, MAET adopted "Mississippi Public Broadcasting" as an umbrella on-air name for all television and radio operations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mississippi Public Broadcasting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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